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~Topic=Main Help Index, Label=HELPMENU
~Label=HELP_INDEX
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{ Using Help } { Fractals and the PC }
{ Introduction } { Distribution of Fractint }
{ Conditions on Use } { Contacting the Authors }
{ Getting Started } { The Stone Soup Story }
{ New Features in Version 17.xx } { A Word About the Authors }
{ A Plug for "Fractal Creations" }
{ Display Mode Commands }
{ Color Cycling Commands } { Using Fractint With a Mouse }
{ Palette Editing Commands } { Video Adapter Notes }
{ GIF Save File Format }
{ Summary of Fractal Types }
{ Common Problems }
{ Doodads\, Bells\, and Whistles }
{ "3D" Images } { Bibliography }
{ Palette Maps } { Other Programs }
{ Revision History }
{ Startup Parameters\, Parameter Files } { Version13 to 14 Conversion }
{ Batch Mode }
{ "Disk-Video" Modes } { Printing Fractint Documentation }
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{ , 0, "New Features in Version 17.xx", FF}
{ , 0, "Introduction", "Conditions on Use", FF}
{1. , 0, Fractint Commands, FF}
{1.1 , 1, "Getting Started"}
{1.2 , 1, "Plotting Commands"}
{1.3 , 1, "Zoom box Commands"}
{1.4 , 1, "Color Cycling Commands"}
{1.5 , 1, "Palette Editing Commands"}
{1.6 , 1, "Image Save/Restore Commands"}
{1.7 , 1, "Print Command"}
{1.8 , 1, "Parameter Save/Restore Commands"}
{1.9 , 1, "\"3D\" Commands"}
{1.10 , 1, "Interrupting and Resuming"}
{1.11 , 1, "View Window"}
{1.12 , 1, "Video Mode Function Keys"}
{1.13 , 1, "Hints"}
{2. , 0, "Fractal Types", FF}
{2.1 , 1, "The Mandelbrot Set"}
{2.2 , 1, "Julia Sets"}
{2.3 , 1, "Julia Inverse"}
{2.4 , 1, "Newton domains of attraction"}
{2.5 , 1, "Newton"}
{2.6 , 1, "Complex Newton"}
{2.7 , 1, "Lambda Sets"}
{2.8 , 1, "Mandellambda Sets"}
{2.9 , 1, "Circle"}
{2.10 , 1, "Plasma Clouds"}
{2.11 , 1, "Lambdafn"}
{2.12 , 1, "Mandelfn"}
{2.13 , 1, "Barnsley Mandelbrot/Julia Sets"}
{2.14 , 1, "Barnsley IFS Fractals"}
{2.15 , 1, "Sierpinski Gasket"}
{2.16 , 1, "Quartic Mandelbrot/Julia"}
{2.17 , 1, "Distance Estimator"}
{2.18 , 1, "Pickover Mandelbrot/Julia Types"}
{2.19 , 1, "Pickover Popcorn"}
{2.20 , 1, "Peterson Variations"}
{2.21 , 1, "Unity"}
{2.22 , 1, "Scott Taylor / Lee Skinner Variations"}
{2.23 , 1, "Kam Torus"}
{2.24 , 1, "Bifurcation"}
{2.25 , 1, "Orbit Fractals"}
{2.26 , 1, "Lorenz Attractors"}
{2.27 , 1, "Rossler Attractors"}
{2.28 , 1, "Henon Attractors"}
{2.29 , 1, "Pickover Attractors"}
{2.30 , 1, "Gingerbreadman"}
{2.31 , 1, "Martin Attractors"}
{2.32 , 1, "Test"}
{2.33 , 1, "Formula"}
{2.34 , 1, "Julibrots"}
{2.35 , 1, "Diffusion Limited Aggregation"}
{2.36 , 1, "Magnetic Fractals"}
{2.37 , 1, "L-Systems"}
{2.38 , 1, "Lyapunov Fractals"}
{2.39 , 1, "fn||fn Fractals"}
{2.40 , 1, "halley"}
{2.41 , 1, "Dynamic System"}
{2.42 , 1, "Mandelcloud"}
{2.43 , 1, "Quaternion"}
{2.44 , 1, "Cellular Automata"}
{3. , 0, Doodads\, Bells\, and Whistles, FF}
{3.1 , 1, "Drawing Method"}
{3.2 , 1, "Palette Maps"}
{3.3 , 1, "Autokey Mode"}
{3.4 , 1, "Distance Estimator Method"}
{3.5 , 1, "Inversion"}
{3.6 , 1, "Decomposition"}
{3.7 , 1, "Logarithmic Palettes and Color Ranges"}
{3.8 , 1, "Biomorphs"}
{3.9 , 1, "Continuous Potential"}
{3.10 , 1, "Starfields"}
{4. , 0, "\"3D\" Images", "3D Overview", FF}
{4.1 , 1, "3D Mode Selection"}
{4.2 , 1, "Select Fill Type Screen"}
{4.3 , 1, "Stereo 3D Viewing"}
{4.4 , 1, "Rectangular Coordinate Transformation"}
{4.5 , 1, "3D Color Parameters"}
{4.6 , 1, "Light Source Parameters"}
{4.7 , 1, "Spherical Projection"}
{4.8 , 1, "3D Overlay Mode"}
{4.9 , 1, "Special Note for CGA or Hercules Users"}
{4.10 , 1, "Making Terrains"}
{4.11 , 1, "Making 3D Slides"}
{4.12 , 1, "Interfacing with Ray Tracing Programs"}
{5. , 0, Command Line Parameters\, Parameter Files\, Batch Mode, "Introduction to Parameters", FF}
{5.1 , 1, "Using the DOS Command Line"}
{5.2 , 1, "Setting Defaults (SSTOOLS.INI File)"}
{5.3 , 1, "Parameter Files and the <@> Command"}
{5.4 , 1, "General Parameter Syntax"}
{5.5 , 1, "Startup Parameters"}
{5.6 , 1, "Calculation Mode Parameters"}
{5.7 , 1, "Fractal Type Parameters"}
{5.8 , 1, "Image Calculation Parameters"}
{5.9 , 1, "Color Parameters"}
{5.10 , 1, "Doodad Parameters"}
{5.11 , 1, "File Parameters"}
{5.12 , 1, "Video Parameters"}
{5.13 , 1, "Sound Parameters"}
{5.14 , 1, "Printer Parameters"}
{5.15 , 1, "PostScript Parameters"}
{5.16 , 1, "PaintJet Parameters"}
{5.17 , 1, "Plotter Parameters"}
{5.18 , 1, "3D Parameters"}
{5.19 , 1, "Batch Mode"}
{6. , 0, Hardware Support, FF}
{6.1 , 1, Notes on Video Modes\, \"Standard\" and Otherwise,
"Video Adapter Notes", "EGA", "Tweaked VGA", "Super-VGA",
"8514/A", "XGA", "Targa", "Targa+"}
{6.2 , 1, "\"Disk-Video\" Modes"}
{6.3 , 1, "Customized Video Modes\, FRACTINT.CFG"}
{7. , 0, "Common Problems", FF}
{8. , 0, "Fractals and the PC", FF}
{8.1 , 1, A Little History}
{8.1.1, 2, "Before Mandelbrot"}
{8.1.2, 2, "Who Is This Guy\, Anyway?"}
{8.2 , 1, A Little Code}
{8.2.1, 2, "Periodicity Logic"}
{8.2.2, 2, "Limitations of Integer Math (And How We Cope)"}
{8.2.3, 2, "The Fractint \"Fractal Engine\" Architecture"}
{Appendix A, 0, Mathematics of the Fractal Types,
"Summary of Fractal Types",
"Inside=bof60|bof61|zmag|period",
"Inside=epscross|startrail",
"Finite Attractors",
"Trig Identities", FF}
{Appendix B, 0, Stone Soup With Pixels: The Authors,
"The Stone Soup Story",
"A Word About the Authors",
"Distribution of Fractint",
"Contacting the Authors", FF}
{Appendix C, 0, "GIF Save File Format", FF}
{Appendix D, 0, An Unabashed Plug for \"Fractal Creations\", "A Plug for \"Fractal Creations\"", FF}
{Appendix E, 0, "Bibliography", FF}
{Appendix F, 0, "Other Programs", FF}
{Appendix G, 0, Revision History,
"Version 17",
"Version 16",
"Version 15",
"Versions 12 through 14",
"Versions 1 through 11",
FF}
{Appendix H, 0, Version13 to Version 14 Type Mapping, "Version13 to 14 Conversion", FF}
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~Topic=Using Help
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Use the following keys in help mode:
F1 Go to the main help index.
PgDn/PgUp Go to the next/previous page.
Backspace Go to the previous topic.
Escape Exit help mode.
Enter Select (go to) highlighted hot-link.
Tab/Shift-Tab Move to the next/previous hot-link.
\24 \25 \27 \26 Move to a hot-link.
Home/End Move to the first/last hot-link.
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~Topic=Printing Fractint Documentation
You can generate a text file containing full Fractint documentation by
selecting the "Generate FRACTINT.DOC now" hot-link below and pressing
Enter, or by using the DOS command "fractint makedoc=filename" ("filename"
is the name of the file to be written; it defaults to FRACTINT.DOC.)
All information in the documentation file is also available in the online
help, so extracting it is a matter of preference - you can print the
file (e.g. DOS command "print fractint.doc" or "copy fractint.doc prn")
or read it with a text editor. It contains over 100 pages of information,
has a table of contents, and is cross-referenced by page number.
{=-101 Exit without generating FRACTINT.DOC}
{=-100 Generate FRACTINT.DOC now}
Fractint's great (and unique as far as we know) online help and integrated
documentation file software was written by Ethan Nagel.
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~Topic=New Features in Version 17.xx
Six times speedup of Lyapunov fractal type from Nicholas Wilt
Fast Outside= option with Mandelbrot/Julia from Wesley Loewer
New features from Juan J. Buhler:
New Julia Inverse fractal type. Implemented as both a type
and the <j> toggle.
Two new diffusion options - falling and square cavity.
Three new Editpal commands: '!', '@' and '#' commands (that's
<shift-1>, <shift-2>, and <shift-3>) to swap R<->G, G<->B, R<->B.
New features from Ken Shirriff:
New fractal types: quaternion, dynamic system, cellular automata,
mandelcloud.
Command stri