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Tiera-zon is a freeware fractal generator which runs under Windows.

Tiera-Zon

Tiera-zon is a freeware fractal generator which runs under Windows. It was written by Stephen C. Ferguson in the late 1990s (version 2.7 is dated 09-17-98). A graphics monitor of a least 256 colors is required, high color or true color is prefered since it generates fractals in true-color.

The Tiera-zon program is about twice as fast as the Iterations/Flarium programs. The main program is written in Visual C++ and the formulae and filters are written and included in a DLL file that is compiled with the freeware DJGPP compiler using a Windows port software package called RSX.

Tiera-zon currently has the following capabilities:

• About 100 formulae, mostly consisting of Newton MSet formula, Newton variations, and trig functions.
• Several enhancement filters such as stalks, bubbles, and atan methods.
• Saves images in 24-bit bmp format.
• Image processing such as blur, emboss, contour, and sharpen
• Anti-aliasing by blurring the image (low pass filtering), then reducing the image to half size.
• Fractal dimension and standard deviation coloring method.
• A unique formulae editor and parser which supports the following complex math functions: *, /, +, -, ^, sin, sinh, asin, cos, acos, tan, atan, and log.
• The formula editor/ parser can be used to write your own unique formulae.
• Capability for creating AVI file video clips of zooming and/ or panning into fractals.
• Capability for creating AVI file video clips of Julia set animations. (New in version 1.5).

Credits:

• Jan Hubicka for telling me about the DJGPP compiler
• Paul Carlson for the Newton Mset formula explanations, the Ushiki Phoenix formulae, the atan, bubbles, the stalks method, etc, etc......
• Björn Isho for creating the Kaos Rhei program.
• Paul Derbyshire for discovering the Nova formula.
• Gerry Myers <[e-mail]> for writing the unique formula editor/ parser.
• Holger Jaenisch and James Handley for help with the initial release of Iterations.exe.
• Sharon Webb for providing lots of testing and feedback during the development of Flarium24.
• Ramon Vives Valls <[e-mail]> for contributing the magnet1 and magnet2 formulae.
• Jette Randlov <[e-mail]> for the (x/y) orbit trap method.
• Earl Hinrich for the (1-z/radius) orbit counting method.
• Thanks to Seth Bollinger <[e-mail]>, filter # 50 has been corrected.

This ReadMe created from Stephen C. Ferguson's web page by Richard Thomson.