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Hello :)

Im here to promote my new project. Im writing a app to explor the mandelbrot set and other fractals.
I know there are already a lot such tools, but Im having fun coding this :)

So, Im looking for a little feedback: Bugs I did not discover, features you are missing, etc. It is by no means finished, I just started with it a few days ago, so a lot of stuff is missing. I will add things over time, so dont be confused because of things that are obviously missing (for instance the means to save an image onto the hard disk).

It's written in C# thus its optimized for windows, but it should run on linux and OS X using mono (http://mono-project.com/Main_Page). I develop on a windows 8 machine and I dont have the means to test it on other operating systems, so any feedback about how its running on earlier windows versions and other operating systems is also appreciated.
For help on running Fraktalysator with mono see https://fraktalysator.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Mono%20Support.

Here's the project homepage where you can download both the source code and a compiled version:
https://fraktalysator.codeplex.com/

you might want to use c++

mono will almost always be about 3 versions behind MS's ".net" and will not use MS proprietary code and api's

very few things actually will run in wine using mono .

well, Im only using .Net 2.0, except for the Syste.Numerics.Complex struct which first appears in 4.0. This stuff should work with mono. I run the app on the mono runtime on my windows, where it worked. Some things are a little different or look "uglier" (e.g. you cannot change the background color of certain UI controsl) but it worked. On rare occasions the app crashes on start up when run with the mono runtime, if that happens, just start it again (I havent been able to find the source of this crashes yet) I've written mono apps before which did actally run on ubuntu. How well mono apps works depends on what classes you are using.

I've updated the software. Most of the obvious thing that were missing, when I first posted here are now there (e.g. saving png-images and loading from a previously saved image). Buddhabrot rendering is now possible (the results look convincing, the calculation method is not the original buddhabrot-algorithm). Im currently working on a video creation feature and orbit trap rendering method (this might take some time though).

I would be most interested in some feedback :)

Homepage: https://fraktalysator.codeplex.com/
Image Gallery: http://sdrv.ms/16BHJwT (Every image in this gallery is rendered with Fraktalysator without any post processing in an image editor)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Fraktalysator

Runs using Mono on Linux Mint 15, no need for Wine.

I just published a small update which takes care of the previously wrong crc calculation which resulted in invalid png files.

I tested the app today on ubuntu. It runs fine without wine, altough it looks less "good" than on win8.

Just downloaded your most current version and will give it a try on some of my different systems when I get an opportunity.  Will let you know what happens when I am finished.     :D