XFRACTINT(1) XFRACTINT(1) NAME xfractint - fractal generation program SYNOPSIS xfractint [options] [; comments] DESCRIPTION Xfractint draws a wide variety of fractals. Xfractint is a port of the IBM PC program fractint. Xfractint has online documentation which should be referenced for most operation information. Note that the online documenta- tion is from fractint, and does not always accurately describe xfractint. A text version of the online documentation can be generated by running ``make doc''. OPTIONS -display display_name Specifies the X11 display to use. -onroot Indicates the resulting images should appear on the root window. Note: rubberband zoom boxes don't work on the root window. -private Indicates that xfractint should allocate as many colors as possible in a private colormap. Normally xfractint will use 128 colors; this flag will let you use all 256, but may mess up the colors in other windows. This is not necessary if you are using greater than 8-bit color. -slowdisplay Indicates that the machine has a slow display, so the scrolling win- dow should be updated infrequently. Use this flag if xfractint hangs on the title screen. -fast Indicates that xfractint should use the faster drawing mode. In- stead of drawing each pixel immediately, xfractint will save up pix- els and then refresh the screen every 5 seconds. Depending on your X implementation, this may make drawing twice as fast. -disk Use disk video. That is, generate the picture in memory instead of to the screen. The resulting picture can be saved as a gif file or printer file. -fixcolors num Specifies the number of colors to use. This number must be a power of two. Also, this number can't be greater than the number of col- ors available. And, it can't be greater than 256. -geometry WxH[{+-X}{+-Y}] This sets the size and position of the image window. The default is 800x600 pixels. -share Indicates that xfractint should share the current colormap. That is, xfractint uses as many colors as possible, but doesn't modify the colormap. This is not necessary with greater than 8-bit colors. -simple Uses simpler keyboard handling. Use this flag if you wish to debug xfractint with gdb, or else you may get "(gdb)" repeated infinitely. xxx=yyy Sets variable xxx to value yyy. See the online documentation for more details on the possible variables. @filename Loads parameters from the specified file. @filename/groupname Reads a named group of parameters from the specified file. -psviewer Allows the user to change the default postscript viewer. The viewer is called when the user prints an image with ctrl-p. The default viewer is gv. -ctrlwindow Allows the user to have a separate control window similar to the ncurses interface. -font Loads the selected font. -fontbold Loads the selected bold font. BUGS There are many bugs and things that haven't been implemented. Boundary tracing sometimes locks up. Passes=2 has problems?? Symmetry that is offset slightly doesn't always complete the image. The top of the help screens are messed up. Starting your xterm with -geometry 80x25 fixes this. Xfractint uses a bizarre (to Unix users) user interface which was directly copied from the IBM version. If you don't have the appropriate keys, use the following key mappings: IBM Unix F1 to F10 Shift-1 to Shift-0 INSERT I DELETE D PAGE_UP U PAGE_DOWN N LEFT_ARROW H RIGHT_ARROW L UP_ARROW K DOWN_ARROW J HOME O END E CTL_PLUS } CTL_MINUS { COPYRIGHT Copyright 1991 - 2020 by The Stone Soup Group AUTHORS The original Unix port was done by Ken Shirriff (shirriff@eng.sun.com). Xfractint was updated to Fractint 19.5 by Tim Wegner (twegner@fractint.org) under Linux 2.0. Please report updates for other platforms to Tim Wegner. The current official release is 20.0. The primary authors of Fractint 20.0 are: Timothy Wegner twegner@fractint.org Jonathan Osuch josuch@fractint.org George Martin ggmartin@compuserve.com Robin Bussell robin.b2@ukonline.co.uk 20.04 XFRACTINT(1)
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