Introduction to Fractal Generator V2 (YAFP)

The Fractal Generator V2 (YAFP = Yet Another Fractal Program) is designed to display images produced from complex and real parametric dynamical systems. Its main purpose is to allow the user to experiment with their own formulas in the dynamical system. To this end, equations are not hard coded into this program, all equations are input by the user, parsed by the program, and evaluated through general expression evaluation methods. Thus, the generation of images is slower than if the formulas had been hard coded. On the other hand, the user is not limited to viewing only specific fractal families, as they would be with programs that hard code formulas.

If you simply wish to explore the Mandelbrot set, there are far faster programs to do that out there, even freeware and open-source packages. You can explore the Mandelbrot set with this program, but other programs that hard code the dynamical system and use special techniques to shorten evaluation time will be much faster, many close to real-time generation. On the other hand, if you want to explore z = cosh(z^3)+ z^(1/3) + c or a Newton's Method fractal for the complex sine function (z = z - tan(z)), and are willing to give up a little speed, you might find this program interesting.

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