The Fractal Engine

 

Let's get psychedelic!

ST Format #42 featured The Fractal Engine by Daniel Grace and Mike Harris. I love programs like this and, after a couple of hours of tinkering, I began creating some rather funky images. This superb program is capable of creating impressive images using tripped-out colourful effects - if you have the spare time?

Features of The Fractal Engine v3.0

1. 17 different fractal types, including 11 Mandelbrot/Julia pairs and Lindemayer Systems
2. Divide and conquer algorithms, with fixed-point arithmetic
3. Zoom animation and Julia Set morph batch processing
4. 3-Dimensional Mandelbrot and Julia landscapes
5. 480, 16 colour palettes
6. Simple but effective image compression

The Fractal Engine delivers exquisite results and is extremely easy to use. Oh no, does this mean I'm turning into a groovy hippie? I hope not!! Anyhow, I hope you like my images which were all calculated using my own Atari STe. (Thanks to Michael Keenleyside for this link to the latest version)

What's more fun than creating trippy images on your Atari computer? Nothing. Yep, that's right.

Brace yourself for images of 8MHz power!

Check out my creative weirdness :-)

Quartet

Only this morning did ST Survivor ask me for a video recording of Quartet, a new game based on the original, by Photonstorm. The task is to place pieces of four faces, into four slots, in four separate areas with bonuses awarded for a whole face. Watch my video recording and you will see that it's simpler than it reads - and very addictive!