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>X a o S<
CREDITS:
Jan Hubicka (hubicka AT limax DOT paru DOT cas DOT cz)
Thomas Marsh (amadeus AT bga DOT com) (not avaiable for now..)
INTRODUCTION:
XaoS is a real-time interactive fractal zoomer for DOS, Plan9, X11 and
SVGAlib. It displays the Mandelbrot set (among other escape
time fractals) and allows you zoom smoothly into the fractal.
Various coloring modes are provided for both the points inside and
outside the selected set. In addition, switching between Julia and
Mandelbrot fractal types is provided. The first version was a
poorly written Mandelbrot view by Thomas later modified by Jan to
support high frame-rate zooming. Other additions were later made
including autopilot (for those of you without drivers licenses),
palette changing, GIF saving, and fractal inversion.
WHATS NEW:
This is mainly bugfix release but some of new features were added too:
o New recalulating with non rectangular pixels. (for full screen modes)
great for modes X :)
o New palettes with white background
o Added coprocesor configuration into MS-DOS port - some coloring
modes are MUCH faster because of no more SIGFPE ignoring..
o Added support for 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 into MS-DOS port
o Default type changed back to double because long double is
non standard
o 9x15 font changed to more compatible and better looking fixed.
o First release of plan9 port (very interesting OS see
http://plan9.att.com..trial version if free)-not
complette yet..colors looks ugly and keys like
arrows does not work..
someone who can help me?
o Added key defines for old svgalib compatibility.
REQUIREMENTS:
XaoS, by default, uses floating point math for its calculations.
This may be slow on some computers. The program was developed on a
Pentium running at 100 MHz, so we can't guaranty that it will run
well on any slower system. If you just want to catch a cursory
glance at XaoS' capabilities on faster systems then you might try
compiling it for fixed point arithmetic by editing config.h
accordingly.
To compile XaoS, DOS, Plan9 or UNIX and X11 (or SVGAlib for Linux) is
required. We are discussing the possibility of porting it to OS/2.
Your C compiler must be ANSI compliant. GNU CC is highly
recommended. An 8-bit display is required at this point since we
haven't coded for TrueColor displays yet.
FTP:
XaoS comes in various files:
XaoS-1.2.tar.gz sources
XaoS*.rpm Redhat packages
Debian packages is coming soon
xaos12b.zip MS-DOS binaries
xaos12s.zip MS-DOS sources(unix one works too..just for those
w/o tar and gzip)
All files are placed at:
ftp.ta.jcu.cz/pub/linux/hubicka
UNIX releated:
sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming...will be moved
tsx-11.mit.edu
ftp.x.org/contrib/graphics
Redhat package:
ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/...
DOS version:
ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/graphics
HOMEPAGE:
Europe: http://www.paru.cas.cz/~hubicka/XaoS/
U.S.: http://www.realtime.net/~amadeus/XaoS/ (it is omposible to update it
now. Pleause use European one)
INSTALL:
Installation methods are described in the file "INSTALL".
USAGE:
XaoS has no command line options as of yet. It is one entirely
self contained executable. Runtime help is provided by typing "H".
THANKS TO:
Stanislav "XaoS" Mikes
- for the name of our program
Borislav Deianov
- for sharing ideas
Isaac Newton
- for discovering his method
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
- for ordering the Julia sets
Linus Torvalds
- for the best operating system
Tim Wegner & Bert Tyler
- for Fractint
Darryl House
- for making Fractint's code readable
NO THANKS TO:
Bill Gates
>X a o S<
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Have you browsed my www pages? Look at:
http://www.paru.cas.cz/~hubicka
Koules-the game for Svgalib,X11 and OS/2, Xonix-the game for X11
czech documentation for linux index, original 2D computer art and
funny 100 years old photos and articles are there!
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