Releases: ZERICO2005/ABS-Fractal-Explorer
ABS-Fractal-Explorer v1.2.2
ABS-Fractal-Explorer will allow you to explore hundreds of different Mandelbrot variants. From Quadratic to Sextic fractals, there is always something new and novel to explore!
Some of its features include rendering Julia-Sets, super-sampled images, key-bind editors, and advanced transformations to undistort previously unexplorable areas.
If you have an idea for a new feature, tell us about it at the link below:
https://forms.gle/x8tgwVbP3eyHTpi2A
If you encounter any bugs or issues, you can read through "basic-trouble-shooting.txt", or fill out a bug report at the link below:
https://forms.gle/zqmkkH8ESY1bhCyw9
Update Summary:
- Added Dekker floats, increasing the maximum precision from 10^32.5 to 10^36.7
- Precisions added: Float32x2 (10^12.6), Float64x2 (10^30.7), Float80x2 (10^36.7)
- General improvements and bug fixes.
System Requirements:
- Windows 10 64bit or later.
- OpenCL 1.2 support (Most computers from 2012 or later).
- Windows 7 64bit might work, but I have no way to test this.
System Requirements (Windows Vista 32bit Edition):
- Windows Vista 32bit or later.
- Some features are disabled in the Windows Vista edition to improve compatibility.
ABS-Fractal-Explorer v1.2.1 Rev-2
This pre-release version of ABS-Fractal-Explorer uses the OpenCV frame-scaler. This allows for faster and higher quality frame scaling, along with other frame interpolation methods such as linear, cubic, and lanczos.
Additionally, the color averaging algorithm has been corrected to use the geometric mean instead of the arithmetic mean.
ABS-Fractal-Explorer will allow you to explore hundreds of different Mandelbrot variants. From Quadratic to Sextic fractals, there is always something new and novel to explore!
Some of its features include rendering Julia-Sets, super-sampled images, key-bind editors, and advanced transformations to undistort previously unexplorable areas.
If you have an idea for a new feature, tell us about it at the link below:
https://forms.gle/x8tgwVbP3eyHTpi2A
If you encounter any bugs or issues, you can read through "basic-trouble-shooting.txt", or fill out a bug report at the link below:
https://forms.gle/zqmkkH8ESY1bhCyw9
Update Summary (v1.2.1):
- Super-Screenshot bounding boxes (Fill Area, Fit Area, etc)
- Faster frame scaling
- Added GPU information sub-menu
- General bug fixes
System Requirements:
- Windows 10 64bit
- OpenCL 1.2 support (Most computers from 2012 or later)
- Windows 7 64bit might work, but I have no way to test this.
ABS-Fractal-Explorer v1.2.1
ABS-Fractal-Explorer will allow you to explore hundreds of different Mandelbrot variants. From Quadratic to Sextic fractals, there is always something new and novel to explore!
Some of its features include rendering Julia-Sets, super-sampled images, key-bind editors, and advanced transformations to undistort previously unexplorable areas.
If you have an idea for a new feature, tell us about it at the link below:
https://forms.gle/x8tgwVbP3eyHTpi2A
If you encounter any bugs or issues, you can read through "basic-trouble-shooting.txt", or fill out a bug report at the link below:
https://forms.gle/zqmkkH8ESY1bhCyw9
Update Summary:
- Super-Screenshot bounding boxes (Fill Area, Fit Area, etc)
- Faster frame scaling
- Added GPU information sub-menu
- General bug fixes
System Requirements:
- Windows 10 64bit
- OpenCL 1.2 support (Most computers from 2012 or later)
- Windows 7 64bit might work, but I have no way to test this.
ABS-Fractal-Explorer v1.2.0
ABS-Fractal-Explorer will allow you to explore hundreds of different Mandelbrot variants. From Quadratic to Sextic fractals, there is always something new and novel to explore!
Some of its features include rendering Julia-Sets, super-sampled images, key-bind editors, and advanced transformations to undistort previously unexplorable areas.
If you have an idea for a new feature, tell us about it at the link below:
https://forms.gle/x8tgwVbP3eyHTpi2A
If you encounter any bugs or issues, you can read through "basic-trouble-shooting.txt", or fill out a bug report at the link below:
https://forms.gle/zqmkkH8ESY1bhCyw9
System Requirements:
- Windows 10 64bit
- OpenCL 1.2 support (Most computers from 2012 or later)
- Windows 7 64bit might work, but I have no way to test this.
ABS-Fractal-Explorer v1.1.11
ABS-Fractal-Explorer is still in development, and may have bugs or missing/unimplemented features.
This version was meant to showcase the SIMD rendering methods (SSE2 and AVX) that were recently added, which perform operations across multiple 32bit/64bit floats improving performance. You can read up on the performance boosts here.
There are still a few bugs to sort out with the SIMD rendering methods, and some parts of the code are inactive or placeholders for unimplemented features. The code would theoretically work on CPU's without SSE2 or AVX support, but I don't have the build environment setup correctly to compile certain parts of the code with -mavx instead of the whole project.
You may need libopencv_core-409.dll, libopencv_imgproc-409.dll, and possibly other OpenCV .dll's to run ABS-Fractal-Explorer. You might have to build/compile the .dll files yourself if they are no longer available.
System Requirements:
- CPU with SSE2 and AVX support (Intel CPU's 2011 and later, AMD CPU's 2013 and later. More specifically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions#CPUs_with_AVX)
- Windows 10 64bit
- OpenCL 1.2 support (Most computers from 2012 or later) (Although it may be set to use OpenCL 3.0 by mistake)
- Windows 7 64bit (NT 6.1) might work, but I have no way to test this. Windows Vista 64bit (NT 6.0) doesn't work.
ABS-Fractal-Explorer v1.1.9
ABS-Fractal-Explorer is still in development, and may have bugs or missing/unimplemented features.
Lots of refactoring has been done between v1.1.7 rev-0 and v1.1.8 rev-6. The monitor boot-up code was reworked, and now supports more boot-up options; Windowed-Fullscreen is sort-of supported; The Julia Coordinate Point was added back into ABS-Fractal-Explorer; and a lot of other small/minor changes were added.
You may need libopencv_core-408.dll, libopencv_imgproc-408.dll, and possibly other OpenCV .dll's to run ABS-Fractal-Explorer. You might have to build/compile the .dll files yourself if they are no longer available.
System Requirements:
- Windows 10 64bit
- OpenCL 1.2 support (Most computers from 2012 or later) (Although it may be set to use OpenCL 3.0 by mistake)
- Windows 7 64bit (NT 6.1) might work, but I have no way to test this. Windows Vista 64bit (NT 6.0) doesn't work.
ABS-Fractal-Explorer v1.1.7
ABS-Fractal-Explorer is still in development, and may have bugs or missing/unimplemented features.
fracExpConfig files have been added to ABS-Fractal-Explorer v1.1.5 and later. They store user preferences and other things.
System Requirements:
- Windows 10 64bit
- OpenCL 1.2 support (Most computers from 2012 or later) (Although it may be set to use OpenCL 3.0 by mistake)
- Windows 7 64bit (NT 6.1) might work, but I have no way to test this. Windows Vista 64bit (NT 6.0) doesn't work.
ABS-Fractal-Explorer v1.1.2
ABS-Fractal-Explorer is still in development, and may have bugs or missing/unimplemented features.
Super Screenshots have been added to ABS-Fractal-Explorer v1.1.1. Allowing one to generate a highly detailed render at an arbitrary resolution.
Not much has been added with ABS-Fractal-Explorer v1.1.2 other than some minor optimizations to CPU rendering.
System Requirements:
- Windows 10 64bit
- OpenCL 1.2 support (Most computers from 2012 or later) (Although it may be set to use OpenCL 3.0 by mistake)
- Windows 7 64bit (NT 6.1) might work, but I have no way to test this. Windows Vista 64bit (NT 6.0) doesn't work.
ABS-Fractal-Explorer-Icons
I made some icons for ABS-Fractal-Explorer awhile ago (2023/08/14). The archives below contain the icons along with the source renders.
ABS-Fractal-Explorer v1.1.1 (v1.0.34)
ABS-Fractal-Explorer is still in development, and may have bugs or missing/unimplemented features.
Super Screenshots have been added to ABS-Fractal-Explorer v1.1.1. Allowing one to generate a highly detailed render at an arbitrary resolution.
System Requirements:
- Windows 10 64bit
- OpenCL 1.2 support (Most computers from 2012 or later) (Although it may be set to use OpenCL 3.0 by mistake)
- Windows 7 64bit (NT 6.1) might work, but I have no way to test this. Windows Vista 64bit (NT 6.0) doesn't work.