AlmondBread 1. Introduction AlmondBread is yet another program which calculates and displays images of the Mandelbrot set. It is certainly not as versatile as e.g. Fractint, but I think it can be fun to play with nonetheless, particularly because of its nice interface (courtesy of Tcl/Tk), fast algorithms and flexible colormap handling. Here are some more of AlmondBread's features: - Fast algorithms, among them an implementation of Simultaneous Orbit Iteration. For example, the accompanying image lightning.gif (an extreme case, admittedly) took more than 2 hours on my little 486DX-33 using Fractint for DOS, less than 4 minutes using AlmondBread under Linux. - Save/Load Fractint-compatible GIF files. - Load Fractint-style colormap files (.MAP files). - Shared or own colormap using an allocation scheme similar to that of xv(1). - Easy-to-use zoombox function. 2. System Requirements You will need a system that runs X11 (at least Release 5). In addition, Tcl/Tk (at least version 7.4/4.0) must be installed on your system. If it is not, you can get it for free from http://www.smli.com/research/tcl. Also, you must have the jstools suite of programs installed on your system. If you don't, get it for free from http://www.shore.net/~js/js-jstools.html. Compiling AlmondBread requires a C compiler. Instructions on installing AlmondBread can be found in the file INSTALL. 3. Further Documentation AlmondBread has on-line help. The files AlmondBread.ps and AlmondBread.html contain the same text as PostScript and HTML. Both were generated automatically from the jdoc source, so look sucky. There is also a little man-page (AlmondBread.1), which is not nearly as elaborate as the on-line help. Please check out the AlmondBread homepage at http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~rms/AlmondBread/ 4. Copyright AlmondBread was written by Michael Ganss (rms@cs.tu-berlin.de). Please contact me if you discover any bugs, have fixes for them or any other ideas that might aid in the improvement of this software, including favorable comments as well. AlmondBread is Copyright (c) 1994-1997 Michael R. Ganss. All Rights Reserved. See section "Copyright" of the on-line help for a full statement of rights and permissions. Michael Ganss (rms@cs.tu-berlin.de)