Title: Where's a good place to upload free software you've written? Post by: frostfern on January 28, 2014, 01:59:20 AM Just for fun I've written my own Mandelbrot/Julia set explorer in Java. I've added a variety of features so far, both for making nice images and for exploring the mathematics. It has a two main panels so you can view both Mandelbrot and Julia sets simultaneously and explore the relationship between the two. So far I've implemented 5 main coloring method types, 4 gradient types, and 15 different preset schemes. There's several anti-alias modes to make the fractals look nice and pretty (with longer computation time). You can also render to an external PNG file of any size and aspect ratio. I've also added the ability view / step through a sample orbit for any pixel on any Julia set and continuously "morph" the Julia set view as you move the mouse pointer around within the Mandelbrot set view.
I'm trying to keep the program small and manageable, more of an educational tool than anything. So far the source code is 600 kb and the JAR file is 500 kb. I'd love to share and get some constructive feedback and ideas from others interested in fractals. Regards, Marshall Title: Re: Where's a good place to upload free software you've written? Post by: Roquen on January 28, 2014, 09:04:04 PM You could do github or sourceforge
Title: Re: Where's a good place to upload free software you've written? Post by: kram1032 on January 28, 2014, 09:23:56 PM the current trend seems to go towards github as the default for this kind of stuff.
I'm not sure precisely why, but sourceforge is falling out of favor. Though I think it's because of more attractive features behind github. Title: Re: Where's a good place to upload free software you've written? Post by: panzerboy on January 28, 2014, 09:52:43 PM I was going to make an uninformed comment about how Git was better at open-source fork/merge operations then found this...
http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/336/forking-and-merging-over-at-sourceforge The GIMP team stopped using sourceforge because they didn't like the misleading advertising that showed on sourceforge. For me, I see these 'DOWNLOAD NOW' iLvid badvertisements over lots of the sites I visit. Learning to ignore the clickbait is just part of using the internet so I don't have an issue with sourceforge. Title: Re: Where's a good place to upload free software you've written? Post by: kram1032 on January 28, 2014, 10:00:07 PM Those ads really aren't so much clickbait as they are eyesore. And in some instances, though that seems to have become rare again, also ear-sore.
Title: Re: Where's a good place to upload free software you've written? Post by: JohnVV on January 29, 2014, 10:19:54 PM look at using Git it was not so much the advertising but a big issue with a MS Windows "installer" being used that ALSO installed unknown and unwanted third party CRAPWARE with the program from sourceforge over the last 13 years i have watched SF go from small to big to flushing it's self down the toilet . i started using SF back in 2001 now , not so much -- it is dieing the death of a thousand cuts |