Paul Butler » Fractals http://paulbutler.org Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:45:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 webFractal: Web-based Fractal Explorer http://paulbutler.org/archives/webfractal-web-based-fractal-explorer/ http://paulbutler.org/archives/webfractal-web-based-fractal-explorer/#comments Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:12:28 +0000 Paul Butler http://www.paulbutler.org/blog/archives/webfractal-web-based-fractal-explorer/ Continue reading →]]> Last weekend, I won a nice new Toshiba laptop in a local software competition. My entry was a web-based fractal explorer. I had a lot of fun making it, and it is fun to play with as well. I have decided to release it under an open-source license so that other people can play around with it (see the download link at the bottom of this post).

Unfortunately, I do not have access to a powerful Tomcat server with a lot of bandwidth, so I can’t host an online demo. If anyone has the resources and is interested in hosting it, please let me know.

Here are some screenshots of the application in action:

fractal1 fractal2 fractal3 fractal4 fractal5 fractal6

Since it is a web-based application, any supported web browser can be the client (see the documentation for a list of supported browsers; any modern Gecko-based browser is supported as well as IE and Opera.) The client interface is loosely based on Google Maps. The server is a Java Servlet run through Tomcat. You can read more about how it works in the documentation.

Downloads:

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