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:
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:
Hey, you’ve finally started your blog – congrads!
Fractals look pretty, nice screenshots.
Wow good stuff on your start for a blog!!!
Fancy software eh? Unfortunatley I don’t know enough about java programming etc. to set it up and use it so I’ll pass.
Wow I love the background ;)
Can we make link exchange? if yes, I will add you blog on my blog.
Very cool indeed… what contests are you entering that give away a laptop as a prize?
It was a contest held by a local university, open to high school students. It was definitely an enticing prize :).
This looks really cool, I bet it was a lot of fun making it.
I’ve bookmarked it, maybe I’ll get a chance to play with it a while once I start learning Java (which I’ve been telling myself to do all year so far but haven’t had time for yet)