What is the news in version 4.1 ?
- there are now 3 versions of mabifract:
mabifract.exe
runs on any i386 system and on x86-64 systems. Calculations are done with double-precision. Is faster than the old version 2.2.
(if you don't know if your computer is a x86-64 system choose this version.)
mabifract-m64-double.exe
runs only on systems with x86-64-architecture. Calculations are done with double-precision. Is in many cases faster than mabifract.exe, result is identical.
mabifract-m64-quad.exe
runs only on systems with x86-64 architecture. Calculations are done with quad-precision. This version allows a higher resolution for the calculation of the fractal (that means "deeper zoomin" without getting unsharp) , but is significant slower as calculations are done in software. A powerful processor is recommended.
- the default GUI (Graphical User Interface) is now in English, you can also choose German
- diagram of the iteration counts distribution = frequency of occurrence of the colours of a fractal
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the zoom sequence has an improved user interface (among others the filenames of a zoom sequence are serially numbered by the program)
- basic elements for documentation (marker, arrow and text) can be drawn in the fractal and stored in png-, tiff- or pdf-files (good for documentation)
- some minor improvements and corrections
- Windows 2000 is no longer supported