Fractal Engine version 2.0 released

[ccovell]

Hi, folks.  A couple of years ago, I added some more features to Fractal Engine but didn't quite finish it up and get it out the door... 

Anyway, this year, I added in Julia set support and so here is something deserving of a release!


Available from this page:
https://www.chrismcovell.com/fractalengine.html

Improvements over version 1.0

+ Twice as many colours in low-resolution mode!
+ Detects SuperGrafx hardware for even more colours / resolutions.
+ Julia Set now accessible!
+ Average of 1.7x speed increase.







Old version thread:  https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/index.php?topic=3580.0

[Arkhan Asylum]

*drool*

I like the last one. 

I did a massive paper on fractals in college.  They rule.

[Sadler]

Awesome, thanks so much for this! Can't wait for my flashcart to arrive to test drive this on an SGX.

I want to take a moment to rant here. Benoît Mandelbrot is one of the most influential people of my life. He defined a new branch of mathematics with far reaching implications. As a 3D graphics programmer, I've found Benoît's (and Ken Musgrave's work) to be incredibly powerful. We aren't just talking the Mandelbrot Set or Perlin Noise here, check out Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach for an idea of just how powerful this stuff is.

Benoît died October 14th, 2010 and it was the first time I truly cared about the passing of someone "famous". RIP. Mandelbrot is indeed in heaven.

[nat]

I love fractals. When I got my first DOS PC in 1990, I played around with lots of freeware/shareware fractal programs. I'll be checking this out.

Now, if only that R-Type patch would get released one of these days... 

[spenoza]

Thank you, Sadler, for posting a YT link to one of my favorite JoCo songs.

[HercTNT]

really nice work chris. now we just need to put it on a flash card. We can have full screen visualization while we listen to music.

[ccovell]

It also includes an ISO for burning to a CD... no need to wait for a flash card if you have a CD-ROM unit.

[cabbage]

One of the first things I started to write after I found HuC was a mandelbrot/julia set generator... then I found yours and moved on

Great to see you've released a new version which includes julia set! Looking forward to trying it out this weekend.

You have done some amazing work on the PCE and I can't wait to see what you come up with next!