Title: Fractice - Free, open-source fractal explorer and renderer for XP/Vista/Win7 Post by: victim of leisure on June 14, 2011, 10:52:13 AM Fractice is a free, open-source fractal explorer and renderer for XP/Vista/Win7. It supports navigation, history thumbnails, previews, antialiasing, deep zoom, printing, posters, palettes, multicore and distributed processing, movie recording, undo/redo, color cycling, and job control. It also has VJ features, such as mixing, mirroring, origin motion, palette tweening, dual-monitor, and MIDI. A 64-bit version is available. Features: http://fractice.sourceforge.net/features.html Screenshots: http://fractice.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html Download: http://fractice.sourceforge.net/download.html The main things Fractice has going for it (besides being free) are its movie recording, deep zoom, and parallel/distributed processing features. These features were handy for creating a Mandelbrot deep zoom movie out to 2^316, at 648x480 with 2x antialiasing, using a cluster of up to 20 dual-core PCs on a LAN, all running the Fractice rendering server (FractServ). http://vimeo.com/6035941 ck |