Hi Everybody !
As requested and just in time for the spring contest, is a new version that can open and save FractalInt .map files. The Colors get loaded into the Color Editor on the bottom of the color tab in Many Fractals Control Panel, which now has a menu. You can first check the box for 'Instant Preview' on the top of the color tab, so that the current fractal image in the main window of the App will be instantly recolored ! This is very helpful to adjust a color set to exactly what you want for a particular image. Before you calculate an image, go into the control panel, to the 'Misc' tab and select 'Store Image in Memory' and 'Store Raw Data', which will allow each image to be colored separately, and recolored with recalculating. The Color editor is like a text editor for colors. One types letters and numbers to get colors. One can also create 'loops' of colors, show in the preview control in the middle of the color tab, and insert them into the color editor at the caret. You may find the color editor is a great way to make .map files for FractalInt or any other program that uses them. I've also created a new color file type called SuperMap (*.rgba), which is just like a map file, except it can contain as many colors as you like and stores the Alpha channel. Many Fractals will currently read in the first 34 million colors in the file. SuperMap files are backward compatible with map files, in FractalInt anyway.
By selecting the mouse function of drag-scroll image, the image can be dragged around to re-center, or re-align it. By sizing the App, with the image linked to the window, which it is by default, the image can be scrolled or unfurl new area. All the points in the new area are calculated, so lengthy equations, like sine and cosine, have slow response.
Special Thanks To Nahee_Enterprises (Paul N. Lee) for posting a Huge collection of map files for me to work with !! ... He is in the Many Fractals credits now too. I've included a few of the more colorful map files in the new version.
Taken from
http://www.manyfractals.org version news :
Version 1.45.02 Notes:
Added: Image Dragging and Size-Scrolling, so now you can 'slide' the image around, or 'unfurl' new area by sizing the App. Added a Menu to the Color Editor, which is the control on the bottom of the color tab in the control panel. On the Menu, is the ability to open and save color files. 2 file formats are currently available, FractalInt's .map files and SuperMap files, which are backward compatible with .map files. SuperMap files are a type of text file containing red-green-blue and ALPHA values and can hold up to 34,000,000 colors !
Improvements: began centralized error handling, which will require a minor re-engineering project to be used everywhere in the code.
Fixes: ... can remember ... forgot to document ... :-)
Next Version: 'tracing out' set points and 2 more color methods to add. Better Sound handling. Finish menu for the Color Editor. Improve Color Quality on 16 - 256 color and 16 bit bitmaps and icons. Full Screen Display mode ! Update to a newer version of QuickLZ, for faster and multi-threaded compression.
OH ! ... and of course, UPDATE The Help File !!!