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- FracXtra v6.0: Fractint Extras Collection by Dan Goldwater, 4/4/95 release.
- distributed as FRACXTR6.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 external programs for the best fractal generator
- ever made, Fractint, by the Stone Soup Group (no bias here!).
- The latest version of fractint (v19.x) is needed for some
- of the files in this collection. The files are
- by no means all made by me, although i did make some myself.
- The FracXtra collection is really just a collection of all the fractint
- files i have found on the internet and on bulletin boards, and which
- people have given to me.
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- Installation:
-
- There are two ways to install FracXtra. Method 1 is the simplest, but the
- least organized. It is best suited for casual Fractint users. Method 2
- is a little more complicated, but will keep your files organized. It is
- best for frequent Fractint users. If you are upgrading from a previous
- FracXtra release, read the section on upgrading before you try to install.
-
- --> Method 1:
-
- 1) Fractint v19.x should already be installed.
-
- 2) Copy the fracxtr6.zip file to the directory where you keep Fractint.
-
- 3) Unzip the collection with "pkunzip fracxtr6.zip". This will unzip _all_
- the files into the same directory as fractint.exe. This will give you easy
- access to all the files when you are using Fractint.
-
- 4) Try running DEMO.BAT (for 320x200 demo) or DEMO2.BAT (640x480 demo).
-
- --> Method 2:
-
- This method uses the following directory structure (in this example,
- fractint.exe is located in c:\fract):
-
- c:\fract where fractint.exe and other .exe's are kept
- c:\fract\bat for .bat and .cfg files which auto-run fractint.
- c:\fract\frm .frm formula files
- c:\fract\ifs .ifs fractal files
- c:\fract\key .key fractint auto-key demos
- c:\fract\l .l l-system files
- c:\fract\map .map color-maps for general 256 color use.
- c:\fract\map\2col 2 color (black and white) maps.
- c:\fract\map\16col 16 color (EGA) maps.
- c:\fract\map\chaotic maps with very random/chaotic coloring.
- c:\fract\map\ng N. Griffin's collection of map files.
- c:\fract\map\simple classic maps with at most 2 colors smoothly blended.
- c:\fract\map\special special purpose maps for 3D, 24bit, paintjet, etc.
- c:\fract\other external programs, text files, other stuff.
- c:\fract\par .par parameter files.
- c:\fract\work fractint work directory.
-
- 1) Fractint v19.x should already be installed.
-
- 2) Copy the fracxtr6.zip file to the directory where you keep Fractint.
-
- 3) Unzip the collection with "pkunzip -d fracxtr6.zip" This will create the
- directory structure shown above and unzip the files into the appropriate
- locations.
-
- 4) In order to have Fractint automatically look in the appropriate
- subdirectories for its files, you will have to add entries to your sstools.ini
- file (or create one if it doesn't exist already). Included in this collection
- is the file other\sstools2.ini, which is a sample sstools.ini with the
- appropriate settings included. You can rename this file to sstools.ini and
- put it in the same directory as fractint.exe, or you can just copy the
- specific settings for directory searching to your own sstools.ini.
-
- 5) You can make more subdirectories in the map subdirectory if you want
- to separate your map files even more, or to keep your own personal ones
- separate from the ones in the collection. In the current Fractint release,
- however, only one map directory can be searched automatically by Fractint,
- although you can use map files from the other directories manually.
-
- 6) There are many useful programs and utilities in the "other" directory for
- creating map files, fractal animations, auto-running .bat files, etc. These
- programs are not installed initially. Each one has a corresponding .txt
- file describing it.
-
- 7) Noel Griffin contributed so many .map files that I put them in a special
- directory. you may want to move them to the main .map directory.
-
- 8) Try running BAT\DEMO.BAT (for 320x200 demo) or BAT\DEMO2.BAT (640x480 demo).
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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 or version 5:
-
- delete \other\partobat.*
- delete \other\explod.zip
- delete \par\0big.par
- delete \other\fractcfg.*
-
- To update your \map\ directory to the new format, you will need to delete
- all the map files included in the FracXtra release you are currently using.
- For convenience, I have included a .bat file which will delete all the .map
- files which came with FracXtra v5.0. First, unzip this .bat file alone with:
- "pkunzip fracxtr6.zip map5-del.bat". Copy map5-del.bat to the directory
- containing your map files, and then run it.
-
- When you are installing FracXtra v6.0 and you try to unzip fracxtr6.zip,
- pkunzip will of course warn you that you are trying to overwrite all the
- various files contained in the previous release. You can avoid this by
- typing "pkunzip -d -o fracxtr6.zip", which will overwrite all files without
- prompting, or by typing "pkunzip -d -n fracxtr6.zip", which will only unzip
- files which are newer than already existing files.
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- Using this collection with Fractint:
-
- .par files are fractal parameter files. press '@', then 'f6' to load a
- parameter file in fractint.
- .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 in fractint.
- .ifs files are IFS type fractal formula files. press 't', choose 'IFS', then
- press 'f6' to load an IFS formula file in fractint.
- .l files are L-system fractal formula files. press 't', choose 'L-system',
- then press 'f6' to load an L-system formula file in fractint.
- .bat files are for running fractint with command line options from dos to
- automatically generate a bunch of fractals without having to hit any keys.
- .key files are fractint macro keylists, for demos and such, used by .bat files.
- .cfg files are fractint configuration files, used by .bat files.
- .zip files are external programs.
- .txt files are text files which describe files in the collection and all the
- external programs.
-
- Note that all the extras files contained in the release version of
- Fractint v19.0 are included in fracxtra.
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- Notes:
-
- 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 v18. 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 you edit the files in question.
-
- the following files were made by me: about 150 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)opyright, 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).
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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.
-
- version 6:
- - rewrote this file completely.
- - added subdirectories in the \map\ tree for special purpose and other
- easily classified .map files.
- - removed 0big.par.
- - removed a few other junk files, but I don't remember which they were.
- - extracted explod.gif from explod.zip, and deleted explod.zip
- - deleted fractcfg.*.
- - got a bunch of stuff from Tom Schumm:
- - see phong.txt
- - julmorph.zip, which makes .bat files for creating animations
- - phong.frm, phong2.frm
- - phong.ifs
- - julimand.par, julphong.par, minimand.par, spirals.par
- - r[1..8].map, g[1..8].map, b[1..8].map map files for 24bit fractals
- - 19 other map files, including jewels*.map
- - got a bunch of stuff from Florian Sanwald
- - see flofract.txt
- - crazynwt.par, crazynwt.frm
- - ilvi.par, ilvi.frm
- - smuus.par, smuus.frm
- - adults.par, slope.par
- - .frm's: fkt, fn-ratz, fractmix, queratz, ratz, test, tritz.
- - 11 .map files
- - got fa100.zip fractal animator from Brian Towles
- - got ifsspell.zip .ifs file generator with source from Wesley Loewer
- - got noel.frm, noel.par, and 117 .map files from Noel Giffin
- - got bailout.frm, bailout.par, bailout.bat from J. Marques
- - got frizzi1.par from Manlio Frizzi
- - got pderby1.par from Paul Derbyshire
- - got robklep1.frm from Rob Klep
- - got behrens1.frm from Chris Behrens
- - got dduffy1.par from Dave Duffy
- - got amber.*, cell.*, wow.*; see jbao.txt for info. from Jiaqing Bao
- - got daj1.par from David Johnston
- - got slang.par from Sara Langseth
- - got smock.par from Laura Smock
- - got 5 .l files by various authors
- - got makemap.zip v1.1, by R. Barnett. a .map maker program for windows.
- - got overkill.frm, overkill.par, overkill.doc by Bradley Beacham.
- - got dons.frm, dons.par by Don Lebow
- - got 5 ckp*.par files by Caren Park
- - got bob10.par by BG Dodson
- - got timgho.par by Karl Geigl
- - got wood.par by Lee Skinner
- - got partob31.zip, a new version (3.1) of partobat, by Michael Peters
- - got fungus.par, by unknown
- - got fractbar.zip 1.00, a toolbar for winfract. by Sean Bishop.
- - got 4dfrac.frm, .par, and .doc. v2.03. by Gordon Lamb.
- - got fimaps.zip by Nick Grasso. a .map maker program.
- - and of course, i got a few things that i forgot what they are, who made
- them, and where they came from :)
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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$erve as well, though I
- personally do not put it on ci$.
- I can not email or real-mail you the software. Sorry.
-
- 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:
-
- ftp.cdrom.com in /pub/simtel/msdos/graphics
- oak.oakland.edu in /pub/msdos/graphics
- wsmr-simtel20.army.mil in pd1<msdos.graphics>
- nic.funet.fi and many 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/
- and ftp.cdrom.com in /pub/cica/?
-
- 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 v19.x/v18.x 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 ftp.cdrom.com, look in /pub/simtel/msdos/graphics/ as
- fraint19.zip. the source code (for dos and X) is frasrc19.zip.
- The windows version is on ftp.cdrom.com in /pub/cica. get the file listing
- in that directory to locate it.
- New versions of the software will presumably have similar
- names when they are released.
-
- Where to get other nifty programs:
-
- All the sites mentioned above have plenty of good graphics software.
-
- You can get the POV-Ray raytracer by FTP from alfred.ccs.carleton.ca
- in /pub/pov-ray. It is also on some of the sites listed above.
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- Internet newsgroups:
-
- Read the newsgroup sci.fractals for all your fractal needs.
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- Bugs:
-
- If there are any major problems with FracXtra, please email me to let me know.
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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, you can:
-
- 1) put them on a disk and mail them to me (put the disk in a padded envelope).
- 2) email to sl@cs.brown.edu. use a uuencoded .zip file for large stuff.
-
- Method 1 is preferred, since #2 is through a friend.
- My address is at the end of this file.
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- #IFDEF LEGAL_CRAP
- I make 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.
- Also, i frequently insert a (c)opyright, 199x message into some of the
- files i get when the author has not been so thoughtful.
- i am not trying to make any money from this. if any author of something
- in this collection doesn't like what i am doing, just mail
- me and i'll correct the situation.
-
- I can not be held responsible for the actions or content of any of the
- files - this collection is distributed as-is.
-
- CD-ROM vendors: You have permission to include the FracXtra collection in
- your products. I would appreciate one free copy of your CD-ROM product.
- My address is at the bottom of this file.
- #ENDIF LEGAL_CRAP
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- -----------------
- --Dan Goldwater--
- -----------------
-
- indirect email address: sl@cs.brown.edu
-
- Since i'm a student, feel free to send money if that's your desire.
- Suggested donation is $10 and/or your personal best fractint extras.
-
- Send all software or monetary contributions to:
-
- Dan Goldwater
- 9 Forest Edge Rd
- Amherst, MA 01002-1533
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