Help for Kfract 0.1.1
Kfract is a generator for fractals. Well, at this early stage it's only capable of mandelbrot
sets and julia sets. Nothing fancy like Xfractint. And it's way far from being as fast as
Xfractint. But it's much easier to use.
1 Mouse functions
1.1 Left mouse button
Left mouse button let you draw a rectangle which will become the next picture. The
center of the rectangle will be the center of the new picture. X/Y ratio will be adapted
to fit into the window.
1.2 Middle mouse button
Middle mouse button zooms in by a factor of 2.
1.3 Right mouse button
Right mouse button zooms out by a factor of 2.
2 Menu
2.1 File
2.1.1 Load params
Loads a by KFract generated parameter file and calculates the picture.
2.1.2 Save params
Saves the parameters of the current pictures. This file can be loaded later in order to
re-calculate the picture. It consists of plain ASCII and can be exchanged emong
different machines of even different architectures as long as KDE is installed.
2.1.3 Save pic
Saves current picture as BMP. Sorry, no GIF support so far.
2.1.4 Quit
Well, here you leave Kfract.
2.2 Types
Each entry switches to the dislayed fractal type. So far implemented:
2.2.1 Mandelbrot
2.2.2 Julia
2.3 Help
2.3.1 Help
Shows this help page. ;-)
2.3.2 About
Pops up an info box with some information about this program and it's
author.
We are already at the end of the discription. That's really all of it. Please feel free to contact me:
Uwe Thiem
uwe@uwix.alt.na