Re: New to fractals, recommend a language/book

Hi,

Before you invest a lot of time and effort writing your
own fractal code on a generic compiler of any sort
I highly recommend you try Fractint or Ultrafractal
or any of the other fractal software available that
has dedicated fractal programming with a ready-built
GUI :-)
In particular you could go for ChaosPro which is free,
has a ready-built GUI and is in C++ so you can in fact
effectively write any C++ code you like for it.

bye
Dave

<walsh.alexander@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I want to start exploring fractals and decided to actually program them
myself directly using a programming language, but I'm not sure which
language to use. I'm at uni in my first year on a maths course, and the
only books I could find on fractal programming were `Fractal
Programming in C' and `Advanced Fractal Programming in C'. I have the
former with me but it is very old (copyright 1989 in the book) and I'm
not sure whether it's a good book to use now, since it goes on at
length about how really powerful a machine you need for the more
complicated fractals, how you need lots of optimisation, yadda yadda,
and so on. Is fractal programming today even possible now in slower but
more user friendly languages like python? Is that recommended? Btw I've
done some programming before, so I don't really need to learn python or
similar if it's just as a transition to more complicated C/C++
programming.

So before I invest a lot of energy into learning a language and/or
following a book I just want to check what is recommended from you
guys. Thanks.

Alex.



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