What it is:This program renders attractors using varied formulas I generated based on Mandelbrot's and the Quadratic Map.
It renders them similar to other programs but is not based on just one equation.
Why did I do this?This project was only an experiment and was for me to learn more about Attractors (and Processing) and to mess with formulas to produce different types of attractors. I never really meant it to be public.... but here it is.
How to interact with the program?First timers just press 0-9 or shift+0-9 to find a nice one, then 'f8' for a nicer looking version, now we wait a while. Right click to save an image in the directory of the program. Press 't' to save a text file of the rendering.
Also you can press 'f1' for faster rendering, then 'q' to randomize, wait a while for a random attractor to pop up. Then press f8 to render it better.
Press 'c' to change color randomly.
For the full reference their is a link at my page at the bottom.
I have not been able to get a working web app (it's just a blank white box for me), I searched help but no luck at all.
but I have got Macosx and Windows working applications plus full source code for Processing and Java.
The Linux app is not tested since I can't get Ubuntu 10.10 to work with Java yet.
I tested it on Windows 7 64 and Mac OSX 10.4 PPC.
It's not fully documented yet but I have been very busy.
It's key input only with no GUI yet...
The instructions appear on the first frame (Though they aren't great instructions yet).
I want to get the coloring method out of the draw loop and into a key called event, like when the user changes colors.
So far the method of coloring is really screwy and I need to clean it up.
I commented a lot on the coding and it requires a font in the data folder and the PrintWriter library (only if you want to build from source).
Please let me know what ideas you have and any help at all would be more then welcomed.
I'm currently taking a break from it since I have been working on it non-stop for the past month or two... I lost track of time. This version 0.28 means I have made about 28 major changes. Version 0.07 was done in September 22 but I lost all previous versions before that one.
If the Java program won't load or it is a blank white box, you will have to download the application for your OS at the bottom of the page.
http://paintingsonsilence.com/fractals/strangeattractorx/