Fractal Forge parameters

BAILOUT is quite a technical parameter; it determines the limit at which iteration escapes to infinity. For the Mandelbrot Set it has to be equal to or greater than 4. Higher values will produce smoother bands.

COLOR BY lets you choose how to use colors; ITERACTIONS or POTENTIAL (slower and cooler) are usual. Try them all!

FORMULA - Instead of the classic Mandelbrot formula, you can try some more. Some other programs let you write to your own formulas; that can be useful for researchers, but it slows everything down. So I'm waiting for some guy to help me with a Just in Time Compiler for formula. ;-)

JULIA and PERTURBATION are for Julia sets fractals, a whole family closely related to the Mandelbrot Set. Briefly: every point in the Mandelbrot Set generates a different Julia Set. Visually, you can notice the association. If the point belongs to the Mandelbrot Set, the Julia Set will be "connected", otherwise it will be "disconnected". Once you choose a good point, check JULIA MODE and START to see it. Usually you will have to lower the MAGNIFICATION to 0.4 to see it all. See Reference Section for more.

RECT COORDINATES lets you to use coordinates of 4-image corner. I use it to compare images among different fractal applications.

DRAWING ALGORITHM There are several drawing algorithms. BOUNDS is pretty good, but you could prefer DRAFT for low resolution (faster) image computing or BOUNDSMP if you have a multi-processor system. INTERPOLATE generates less precise images but generally it's faster than BOUNDS.

OFFSET lets you animate colors. It doesn't use a palette as 256-color programs do, so the redrawing of the image is slower.

LIST shows a list of names of the images you have done. Select one of them to see all its parameter values. If you change the name of the last fractal, you have to reselect it to read a new name.