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Title: Early Beta Release of Fractalscope
Post by: zenzero-2001 on January 26, 2015, 12:58:10 PM
Hi all

I have released an early beta version of my fractal explorer program "Fractalscope" for people to try out. There are still a number of bugs that need to be squashed before the first non-beta release. There is a 64-bit version for Windows available for download at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fractalscope/ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fractalscope/) . There are quite a few dependencies because of it being a dynamically linked Qt program, hence the relatively bloated size of the download (~17Mb). I hope that I have managed to include them all so that the program runs!

I would greatly appreciate your thoughts and constructive criticism.

Best wishes,

zenzero-2001


Title: Re: Early Beta Release of Fractalscope
Post by: 3dickulus on January 26, 2015, 03:19:04 PM
does not run under wine on linux...  :sad1:

imageformats/
               -> qdds.dll  qgif.dll  qicns.dll  qico.dll  qjp2.dll  qjpeg.dll  qmng.dll  qsvg.dll  qtga.dll  qtiff.dll  qwbmp.dll  qwebp.dll
platforms/
               -> qwindows.dll

Qt5Core.dll
Qt5OpenGL.dll
Qt5Widgets.dll
Qt5Gui.dll
Qt5Svg.dll

icuin52.dll
icudt52.dll
icuuc52.dll
libstdc++-6.dll
libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
libwinpthread-1.dll

these are what's needed for win7 Qt5.2 to make SFTC to run  :dink:


Title: Re: Early Beta Release of Fractalscope
Post by: zenzero-2001 on January 26, 2015, 05:34:58 PM
Thanks 3dickulus

It should work now. I forgot to include the msvc dlls. Annoyingly I had included them in an earlier available download, but somehow accidentally deleted them in the most recent download. :-(


Title: Re: Early Beta Release of Fractalscope
Post by: DarkBeam on January 27, 2015, 12:21:21 AM
Where are the pretty pics?


Title: Re: Early Beta Release of Fractalscope
Post by: 3dickulus on January 27, 2015, 12:59:11 AM
yep, works with wine/linux now
very smooth, you're off to a great start!
 :beer:


Title: Re: Early Beta Release of Fractalscope
Post by: zenzero-2001 on January 27, 2015, 06:39:54 PM
DarkBeam - You are supposed to make your own pretty pictures with the program  :D

3dickulus - Glad you like it :-) I actually develop in Linux, I will upload a Linux version soon.


Title: Re: Early Beta Release of Fractalscope
Post by: DarkBeam on January 27, 2015, 07:09:06 PM
Lol but every program has some preview pics to tempt undecided wannabe-users ;)


Title: Re: Early Beta Release of Fractalscope
Post by: zenzero-2001 on January 27, 2015, 08:02:26 PM
There are a few screenshots on the Sourceforge website. I am trying to attach an image to this message.


Title: Re: Early Beta Release of Fractalscope
Post by: zenzero-2001 on January 27, 2015, 08:03:45 PM
Ah success... The above image has been resized in the GIMP. It is a Julia Phoenix fractal:

Center (Re): -0.24621
Center (Im): -0.01146
Magnification: 3.96
Rotation: 0 degrees

Iteration Limit: 11400
Bailout: 1e+20

Seed (Re): -0.19208
Seed (Im): -0.03346

Minimum (Re): -0.44037
Minimum (Im): -0.13772
Maximum (Re): -0.05205
Maximum (Im): 0.1148


Title: Re: Early Beta Release of Fractalscope
Post by: zenzero-2001 on January 27, 2015, 08:05:49 PM
A second preview image of a Julia Burning Ship fractal:

Center (Re): -0.0025442
Center (Im): 0.0047917
Magnification: 586.1
Rotation: 76.5 degrees

Iteration Limit: 3186
Bailout: 1e+20

Seed (Re): -1.6233402
Seed (Im): 0.0251531

Minimum (Re): -0.0036749
Minimum (Im): 0.0058471
Maximum (Re): -0.0014135
Maximum (Im): 0.0037363


Title: Re: Early Beta Release of Fractalscope
Post by: DarkBeam on January 28, 2015, 12:09:04 AM
Well not bad! ;) Good luck with your project!


Title: Re: Early Beta Release of Fractalscope
Post by: zenzero-2001 on January 28, 2015, 11:30:12 AM
Thanks  :)


Title: Re: Early Beta Release of Fractalscope
Post by: zenzero-2001 on January 28, 2015, 04:57:41 PM
I have uploaded a 64-bit Linux build (static linkage), I hope it runs okay.


Title: Re: Early Beta Release of Fractalscope
Post by: PieMan597 on January 28, 2015, 09:26:21 PM
I can say that the Linux version works just fine on my computer that has 64-bit Linux Mint 17.1 on it.


Title: Re: Early Beta Release of Fractalscope
Post by: zenzero-2001 on January 29, 2015, 12:39:28 PM
Thanks Pieman597. It is a static build so should work on distros without Qt installed. I am also running 64-bit Linux Mint but version 17 KDE edition.  ;D


Title: Re: Early Beta Release of Fractalscope
Post by: zenzero-2001 on April 02, 2015, 10:48:35 PM
Hi Everybody

I've just made available a bug fix release of Fractalscope, version 0.1.2 Beta. This version should (hopefully!) fix the thread synchronization issue and a few other bugs. Both the Windows and Linux versions are compiled dynamically (previously, the Linux version was a static build). If there are any problems with running the Linux version on distros without Qt5 installed, I would very much appreciate it if you would let me know. Thanks! :-)

I'm not planning to work on Fractalscope for some significant time. I have some other (non-programming) projects I wish to pursue.


Title: Re: Early Beta Release of Fractalscope
Post by: SCORPION on April 03, 2015, 05:26:21 AM
Hi, zenzero-2001!
Your program works on my Windows 7x64.
But I see a large size Fractalscope and only one formula?
How can I save a picture of Julia?


Title: Re: Early Beta Release of Fractalscope
Post by: zenzero-2001 on April 03, 2015, 09:54:53 AM
If you click "New", that will give you access to a few more fractal types (the dialog includes a checkbox to create a Julia variant).

A Julia fractal can also be created by holding down ctrl or shift and clicking the right mouse button at a location on the fractal, the coordinates of the clicked location become the seed of the Julia fractal.


Title: Re: Early Beta Release of Fractalscope
Post by: zenzero-2001 on April 03, 2015, 10:38:49 AM
A reminder of the project location:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fractalscope/


Title: Re: Early Beta Release of Fractalscope
Post by: zenzero-2001 on April 08, 2015, 10:25:28 PM
Hi

I've just released the first non-beta version (version 1.0.0). It has independent color channels for the gradient editor. This means that saved gradients and fractals are incompatible between the beta releases and the non-beta releases.

I hope people enjoy using Fractalscope. Thank you.