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