GLFract II

GLFract renders Julia Sets as heightmaps in 3D using OpenGL and GLSL.
Explore the fractal parameter space at interactive rates using the mouse.

Features:

  • Quadratic, Quartic, Quintic functions
  • Fast GLSL Shader rendering
  • Loads Eyefract parameter files and fractint colormaps
  • PPM Image export
  • Background rendering thread
  • Real-time mouse controls
  • Command line

Requirements:

  • OpenGL 1.0 for rendering
  • OpenGL 2.0 for fast rendering using shaders

Downloads:

Windows build:   GLFract2-win32-r184.zip   264k
Source:   glfract2-src-r184.tar.gz   121k


GLFract II is written in ANSI C using FreeGlut and pthreads.
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