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FracXtra v5.0: Fractint Extras Collection by Dan Goldwater, 7/5/93 release.
distributed as FRACXTR5.ZIP
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description:
FracXtra is a huge collection of .map, .par, .frm, .ifs, .l, .key, and .bat
files, as well as some small external programs for the best fractal generator
ever made, Fractint, by the Stone Soup Group (no bias here!).
version 17 or higher of fractint is needed for some
of the files in this collection. The files are
by no means all made by me, although i did make quite a few of
the .map and .par files myself. The FracXtra collection
is really just a collection of all the fractint .map, .par, .frm, etc.
files i have found on the internet and on bulletin boards.
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WHAT'S NEW:
Lots of new .frm files, thanks to mike wareman.
New distribution policies and sites! I can now send fracxtra and/or fractint
and/or other software by real mail for a nominal fee. Also, fracxtra will now
be distributed on many more internet sites than previously.
I am now using pkzip v2.04g. you need pkunzip v2.04 or (unix) unzip v5.0.
some of the new .par files are fractint v18 specific, everything else will
work at least with v17.
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where to get FracXtra, Fractint, and all that other Good Stuff:
FracXtra can be obtained from finer bulletin boards, on many Internet
FTP sites, and most likely from Compu$erve as well, though I
personally do not put it on ci$.
If you can't get either FracXtra and/or Fractint by the above means, I can
send them by real-mail for a nominal fee. See details on this below.
it may take up to a week after each release for
fracxtra to get onto all the distribution sites... the following are the
distribution sites which each new version of fracxtra is uploaded/ftp'd to
by me:
Bulletin Boards:
The Graphics Alternative BBS, 510-524-2780 (highly recommended!)
Channel 1 BBS, 617-354-7077 617-354-3137 617-354-5776 617-354-8873
Internet FTP sites:
All new releases of FracXtra are found on the following sites:
Simtel20 mirror sites:
wuarchive.wustl.edu in /mirrors/msdos/graphics/
oak.oakland.edu in /pub/msdos/graphics
wsmr-simtel20.army.mil in pd1<msdos.graphics>
nic.funet.fi and others...
wuarchive.wustl.edu in /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/graphics/ or
/pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/misc/ or /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/ or similar.
ftp.cica.indiana.edu in /pub/pc/win3/uploads/ or /pub/pc/win3/desktop/
sprite.berkeley.edu in /pub/ (this is the XFractint source.
XFractint includes the full FracXtra with it. look for the
file xfract18.tar.Z or similar. the FracXtra release may be here
as a separate file as well).
where to get Fractint:
Fractint v18.0/v17.3 is available in versions for dos, windows, and X.
you can get Fractint on any of the above BBS systems and internet
FTP sites. on oak.oakland.edu, look in /pub/msdos/graphics/ as
fraint18.zip. the source code (for dos and X) is frasrc18.zip.
The windows version is in /pub/msdos/windows3/ as
winfr173.zip. New versions of the software will presumably have similar
names when they are released.
Disks By Real-Mail (before May 1995 only, see address below):
number of disks i send you: price:
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1 $8.00 US
2 $11.00 US
3 $14.00 US
each additional disk $3.00 US
International: Add 50% to all prices.
Discounts: If you send me QUALITY files to add to FracXtra, you
get a $3.00 discount (.frm, .par, .map, .ifs, .l, .bat,
.key, or *SMALL* external programs ONLY).
Note: I can handle 1.44meg and 1.2meg dos format disks ONLY!
What will fit on a disk (all programs are zipped, pkunzip included) ?
Package: Size:
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FracXtra v5.0 525k
Fractint v18.0 for dos 485k
Fractint/XFract v18.0 portable C source code (msc6, msc7, bc31, X) 875k
Fractint v17.3 for Microsoft Windows 490k
DTA v1.8 fli animation creator 150k
PlayFli v0.73 svga fli animation player 20k
PicLab v1.91 truecolor image converter, manipulator, viewer 175k
AAPlay v1.1 for Windows animation creator, player. incl. truecolor. 110k
CompuShow v8.60a viewer and printer 155k
Graphics Workshop v6.1v file viewer, converter, manipulator, FX. 350k
Graphics Workshop v1.1c for Windows 500k
RayShade v4.0.6 386+387 raytracer, w/source 1010k
Persistance Of Vision 386+387 raytracer (POVray) 860k
POVray utilities (including CAD-style front end) 200k
HCMake, HCPlay, HCShow, HCSvga hicolor animation, viewers, bc31 code 270k
vbrun100.dll and vbrun200.dll for some windows programs 365k
Image Alchemy v1.6 image converter, manipulator, viewer, etc. 445k
JPEG386 (Independant JPEG group). 386 gif and tga to jpeg 205k
Pkzip v2.04g 205k
*** Some other graphics shareware packages for dos/windows are available ***
*** The latest versions of all programs will always be supplied ***
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using the FracXtra collection:
.par files are fractal parameter files. press '@', then 'f6' to load a
parameter file.
.map files are fractal color maps. load them with 'l' when in color cycling
mode (press 'c' to go to color cycling mode when an image is displayed).
.frm files are fractal formula files. press 't', choose 'formula', then
press 'f6' to load a formula file
.ifs files are IFS type fractal formula files. press 't', choose 'IFS', then
press 'f6' to load an IFS formula file.
.l files are L-system fractal formula files. press 't', choose 'L-system',
then press 'f6' to load an L-system formula file.
.bat files are for running fractint with command line options from dos.
.key files are fractint macro keylists, for demos and such.
other files are external programs, .txt files describing files in the
collection, or other things.
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getting your own Fractint extras in the FracXtra collection:
If you have any good Fractint extras you would like
to have included in this collection, just tell me how to get them and i
will include them in the next release.
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--Dan Goldwater--
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preferred (internet) email: daniel_goldwater@brown.edu
alternate (internet) emails: dgold@math.umass.edu
dgold@lems.brown.edu
st202013@brownvm.brown.edu
Compu$erve users: I have been told that you too can send me email at my
internet email address, though i can't tell you how to do it.
since i'm a student, feel free to send money if that's your desire:
Primary address which i check at least weekly (ok until at least May 1995)
Send all orders for software to this address, make checks to Dan Goldwater:
Dan Goldwater
Box 5435
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912-5435
Secondary address which i check about once a month:
Dan Goldwater
9 Forest Edge Rd
Amherst, MA 01002-1533
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#IFDEF LEGAL_CRAP
I make absolutely no
claim to ownership of most of the files or programs
contained here, and some of them may be shareware, although most
are freeware or public domain. Many of the files
are copyrighted in the specific files by whoever made them. Due to
the methods and time period over which this
collection was/is gathered, it
would be impossible to list all the contributors whose names are not
specifically in a file contained herein.
basically i think what i want to say here is all
the legal stuff that gets me off the hook when
you sue me for something. just insert
any and all disclaimers here. i am not trying to
make any money from this, anyway. if any author of something
in this collection doesn't like what i am doing, just email or real-mail
me and i'll correct the situation.
#ENDIF LEGAL_CRAP
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using the collection:
.par files are fractal parameter files. press '@', then 'f6' to load a
parameter file.
.map files are fractal color maps. load them with 'l' when in color cycling
mode (press 'c' to go to color cycling mode when an image is displayed).
.frm files are fractal formula files. press 't', choose 'formula', then
press 'f6' to load a formula file
.ifs files are IFS type fractal formula files. press 't', choose 'IFS', then
press 'f6' to load an IFS formula file.
.l files are L-system fractal formula files. press 't', choose 'L-system',
then press 'f6' to load an L-system formula file.
.bat files are for running fractint with command line options from dos.
.key files are fractint macro keylists, for demos and such.
other files are external programs, .txt files describing files in the
collection, or other things.
note that all the extras files contained in the release
Fractint v17.2 are in fracxtra.
while the various types of fractint files are separated into their own
directories in this archive, you may want to put them all in your
fractint main directory, because using them is easier that way.
but, if you really don't want all 300 files in one directory, unzip this
file with -d to recreate the directory structure. note that the
.frm, .bat, and possibly some of the other files in the collection
may not work as expected if they aren't in the same directory as fractint.exe.
maybe newer versions of fractint will allow a forcefully defined directory
for each type of file.
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getting your own Fractint extras in the FracXtra collection:
If you have any good Fractint extras you would like
to have included in this collection, just tell me how to get them and i
will include them in the next release.
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upgrading old fracxtra releases:
upgrading from version 2 or version 1:
everything in the previous releases of fracxtra is in this release, but some
files have been renamed, some conglomerated to reduce the number of files, and
some deleted if they duplicated other files. as a result, you can delete
every file in the old version and then unzip this collection. the
problem is that if you have made any fractint files of your own, you will
have to avoid deleting them (heh heh).
to help you do this, the following files existed in version 2 but have been
deleted in this version:
all .l files except fractint.l, penrose.l, tiling.l
moreifs1.ifs
black.map, white.map (what were these all white and all black maps for?!?)
upgrading from version 3, 2, and 1:
the /txt directory was eliminated. the .txt files are now in /other.
erase the following files, which were either duplicates or were renamed:
rain4x3.map, smooth2.map, smooth4.map.
upgrading from version 4:
no problem.
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notes on specific files:
many of the .txt files in /other correspond to a .par and/or .frm file, and
describe how to use it or who wrote it or something like that.
fractint.frm and improved.frm have many of the same formulas in them, but
they have been organized so that fractint.frm is a subset of improved.frm.
the formulas in fractint.frm have many of the variables preset, such that
they require less parameters than the corresponding (and similarly named)
formulas in improved.frm. many of the improved.frm formulas in turn have
a comment which gives example values to try in a formula, and these are
often the values used to preset that formula in fractint.frm. note that
the fractint.frm included in the collection is different from the one
included in Fractint v17. you may want to rename improved.frm to
fractint.frm, and fractint.frm to oldfract.frm, because many of the .par
files expect certain formulas to be in fractint.frm which are now only
in improved.frm.
some of the .par and .bat files are directory dependant, and may not be
able to find the .frm, .map, or .par files they need to work properly.
in general, most can be made to work if your fractint.exe is located in
c:\fract\ and the .frm, .map, .par, and/or .bat files in question are
also located in c:\fract\. you could also fix this problem by editing the
files in question, or by adding your .map, .par, and .frm files on the path.
the following files were made by me: about half of the .map files, including
almost all the various rainbow and volcano and fade ones. i made the
dgeneral.par and the dcontpot.par files, both are (c), but you
can use them for any non-profit purpose you wish, as long as
you don't claim you made them. i also wrote part of the
24bit.txt info file on making 24bit fractals, and
the frachead.ray rayshade header file. also many of the .txt and .bat files
describing various stuff (in /other). also made fraccfg.2.
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version history:
version 1:
- the initial release. totally undocumented and disorganized and incomplete.
everyone kept bugging me and bugging me to re-upload it everywhere <g>.
version 2:
- got a whole bunch of new .par, .frm, .l, and .bat files, and a few .map's
- made this readme file, and the file_id.diz.
- discovered that none of the .ifs files were in the correct format. i fixed
them, and consolidated all the new ones into one file, moreifs.ifs.
- consolidated a few of the .par files that had only a few .par's
in them into the misc.par file.
- eliminated duplication in a few of the .par files (like wohlers.par
and all of the .par files i made myself), and i consolidated my own .par's.
version 3:
- got a few new .map and .par files
- nuked a ton of .l and .ifs files because they were dups
- changed the zip-exe dir to an other dir, and put in some new stuff.
- removed duplication from the remaining .l files.
- removed duplication between fractint.frm and improved.frm, and
reorganized those files (see notes).
- fixed one of the formulas in improved.frm which had a syntax error (jm_23).
- made a .txt file about making 24bit fractals
- used pkzip v2.04e to compress
- made a .ray file header for rayshade output files
- misc. editing of files
version 4:
- made fade*.map
- deleted rain4x3.map, renamed smooth2.map and smooth4.map
- got select.frm file, and burt.par file
- got a .map file making program, map100.zip.
- moved the /txt stuff into /other
- used the old pkzip v1.10 to compress, for compatibility
- misc. editing of files
- made/added .txt and .bat files on animating fractals.
- got about 20 new .map, a .par, and a .ifs file
- got fbat102.zip, a par-to-bat converter
- got a .cfg file and .ini additions and other misc. files in /other
version 5:
- got aaa111.par and cw4par.par
- i got some other stuff, but i dont remember what anymore!
- some new maps, but i dont remember their names.
- lots of new .frm files from mike wareman. see \other\f(g(z))).txt for info.
- also got secant.frm from mike wareman, and made mikeware.par from his .gifs.
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