XaoS 3.0

This is list of main XaoS features. Those marked as [New] were added in version 3.0: - Fast smooth interactive real-time zooming. Even on 486! - 11 fractal formulas: Mandelbrot power 2 - Mandelbrot power 6, octo, Barnsley, Newton, Phoenix, Magnet - Autopilot (enhanced in this version) - [NEW] 8bpp, hi-color, real-color, black&white, true-color (24 or 32bpp) support - [NEW] random palettes - [NEW] Saving to PNG files - [NEW] Saving/restoring current position - [NEW] Animation save/replay - [NEW] Animated tutorials: - Introduction to fractals: Introduction and the Mandelbrot set, Higher power Mandelbrots, Newton's method, Barnsley's formula, Phoenix, Octo, Magnet - Features overview: Out-coloring modes, In-coloring modes, True-color coloring modes, Filters, Planes, Animations and position files, Perturbation, Random palettes, Other noteworthy features What's new - Supported languages for tutorials: English, Francais, Cesky, Deutsch - [NEW] 10 out-coloring modes + 10 in-coloring modes - [NEW] 10 true-color coloring modes - [NEW] Boundary detection - [NEW] Periodicity checking - [NEW] Unrolled calculation loops - [NEW] Real-time image rotation - [NEW] More than 50 examples - [NEW] An AA driver that provides high quality ASCII art rendering at many platforms (see AA-project home-page at http://www.ta.jcu.cz/aa) - both Mandelbrot and Julia forms of fractals - fast Julia preview (now for all formulas) - special image stretching algorithm for fast zooming (150 FPS on pentium 130 in full-screen 320x200 mode) - solid guessing - many supported platforms including text mode drivers - zoom up to 64051194700380384 times - UN-zooms more than 1267966761981568116729735090176 times - Color cycling - Dynamic resolution - Fast Julia browsing mode - Supports non-standard monitor sizes - [NEW] SMP support - POSIX threads API - [NEW] post calculation filters: motion blur, Random dot stereograms in animation, Interlace filter, Two edge detection filters, Star-field generator, Emboss, Palette emulation filter - [NEW] Dithering on devices w/o user defined palette