IFS Explorer

Iterated Function System Explorer.

See the Exploring Iterated Function Systems article and the HTML documentation - also available as a PDF - for more details.

Features

• Live transform editor
  • Move, scale and rotate with mouse
  • Edit transform properties
  • Set affine matrix
  • Update configuration
• Live reflection editor
• Final co-ordinate transforms
• IFS renderer
  • Colour and greyscale, with gamma
  • IFS, Measure Set and Fractal Top modes
  • Density estimation and Fractal Flame
  • Printing and export to PNG
  • Multi-threaded rendering
• IFS details view
  • Transform matrix and reflection coordinates
  • HTML rendering and printing
• Save and load as XML
• Animated changes to IFS
• Headless IFS image rendering

Program Requirements

• Java 1.8.0+ Runtime Environment
• Windows, Linux or OSX Operating System
• Maven and 1.8.0+ JDK to build

TODO

• Documentation
  • JavaDoc for whole codebase
  • Online HTML help
  • Illustrate rendering modes
• Improved full-screen mode
• IFS enhancements
  • Allow non-square aspect ratio
  • Use unit vectors as basis
• Platform support
  • Web application and REST API
  • Android application
• Animator enhancements
  • Document usage
  • JSON configuration file parser
  • Add camera movements (zoom and pan)
  • Graphical sequence editor
  • Scripted MPEG generation

Alongside these enhancements and new features, some of which are currently work-in-progress, both performance and UX improvements are always on-going.

Copyright 2012-2020 by Andrew Donald Kennedy and Licensed under the Apache Software License, Version 2.0