gruff: fractal explorer GUI using the ruff library

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Mandelbrot Set fractal explorer using the ruff library.

Requires GTK, OpenGL, and GLSL fragment shader support; lots of RAM and multiple CPU cores recommended. If you want to explore very deep zooms, you'll need hmpfr which currently requires GHC to be compiled with integer-simple instead of the default integer-gmp. To install without MPFR support, use cabal install gruff -f-mpfr.

Features in this version include:

  • Interactive fractal browser display (left click to zoom in, right click to zoom out, middle-click to center).

  • Session persistance (stored in ~.gruffstate.gruff - states can also be loaded from and saved to other files).

  • Tile cache (by default in ~.gruffcache - symlink it somewhere with a few GB of space if you plan on exploring a lot).

  • High-level feature finding using angled internal addresses (enter an address, for example 1 2 3 1/3 10, and hit return, then click the adjacent Go button).

  • Feature finding using period location (navigate to approximate location of the desired feature, click the Scan button).

  • Angled internal address calculation using reverse ray trace (navigate to approximate feature location, click the Scan+ button).

  • Uses MPFR where available for higher precision, allowing deeper zooms and locating high period nucleii.

  • Limited amount of customizable colouring (colours for interior, border, and exterior points).

  • Supersampling for more detailed images (useful range is 1 to 4).

Future features might include image saving, external ray and feature information overlays, more feature finding and identification algorithms, scripting support for rendering animations, ...

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mpfr

use MPFR for higher precision floating point

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Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info

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Versions [RSS] 0.1, 0.1.1, 0.2, 0.2.1, 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.3.3, 0.3.4, 0.4
Dependencies base (>=4 && <5), bytestring, containers (<1), directory (>=1 && <2), filepath (>=1 && <2), gtk (>=0.11 && <0.13), gtkglext (>=0.11 && <0.13), hmpfr (>=0.3.2 && <0.4), mtl, old-locale (>=1 && <2), OpenGL (>=2.4 && <3), OpenGLRaw (>=1.1 && <2), parallel (>=3.1 && <3.2), qd (>=1 && <2), qd-vec (>=1 && <2), ruff (>=0.2 && <0.3), time (>=1 && <2), Vec (>=0.9 && <1) [details]
License GPL-2.0-only
Author Claude Heiland-Allen
Maintainer claudiusmaximus@goto10.org
Category Graphics
Uploaded by ClaudeHeilandAllen at 2011-10-09T00:33:01Z
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Reverse Dependencies 1 direct, 0 indirect [details]
Executables gruff
Downloads 7303 total (22 in the last 30 days)
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