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@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@ +XaoS - a real time fractal zoomer and morpher +============================================= + +For installation instructions please see the INSTALL file. + +Original authors of XaoS are Jan Hubicka (jh@ucw.cz) and Thomas Marsh +(tmarsh@tivoli.com). Many other people contributed to the project as +well. Their list is too long to be included here. See AUTHORS file in +the XaoS distribution. + + +INTRODUCTION +------------ + +XaoS is a fast portable real-time interactive fractal zoomer. It +displays the Mandelbrot set (among other escape time fractals) and +allows you to 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 and +displaying planes is provided. The first version was a poorly written +Mandelbrot viewer by Thomas later modified by Jan to support high +frame-rate zooming. Other additions were later made including autopilot +(for those of you without driver licenses), palette changing, PNG +saving, and fractal inversion. + + +SUPPORTED PLATFORMS +------------------- + +Starting from version 3.5, the supported platforms are: + + * POSIX (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, etc.) + * Microsoft Windows (XP or later) + * Mac OS X (10.4 or later) + +The following platforms were also supported in earlier versions: + + * BeOS + * Old Macintosh versions + * Microsoft DOS + * OS/2 + * Plan 9 + +Due to the lack of volunteers interested in maintaing older platforms, we +are discontinuing support for them. If you want to use XaoS on one of +these platforms, please download an earlier version. + +Of course, volunteers are always welcome to resurrect support for older +platforms or port XaoS to other platforms it doesn't currently support. + + +FEATURES +-------- + + * fast smooth interactive real-time zooming (even on ancient machines!) + * 24 fractal formulas + user defined formula + * autopilot + * menu driven interface + * context sensitive help and animated tutorials + * various colorization, post calculation filters, color cycling + * image/animation saving/replay + * image export to PNG + * internationalized texts + * configurable calculation methods + * real-time image rotation + * many example fractals + * switching between Mandelbrot/Julia mode + * fast Julia preview + * zooming in 6*10^16 times, zooming out 10^30 times + * SMP support + +...and many more! + + +HOMEPAGE +-------- + +http://xaos.sf.net + + +HOW TO REPORT BUGS +------------------ + +Please try to reproduce the bug and submit a description and output of + + xaos -config + +to the issue tracker (http://code.google.com/p/gnuxaos/issues/list). + +Debugger info (backtraces and so forth) is also welcome. + + +THANKS TO +--------- + + * Unknown Samorai from Brazil (for $20 --- your email doesn't work) + * 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) + * Richard M. Stallman (for GNU) + * Linus Torvalds (for the best kernel) + * Tim Wegner & Bert Tyler (for Fractint) + * Darryl House (for making code of Fractint readable) + + +NO THANKS TO +------------ + + * Bill Gates |