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, andlog. - 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).
- 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
<myersge@hiwaay.net>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
<ramon_vives@ctv.es>for contributing the magnet1 and magnet2 formulae. - Jette Randlov
<randlov@alf.nbi.dk>for the (x/y) orbit trap method. - Earl Hinrich for the (1-z/radius) orbit counting method.
- Thanks to Seth Bollinger
<sethb@visi.com>, filter # 50 has been corrected.
This ReadMe created from Stephen C. Ferguson's web page by Richard Thomson.