Fractice is a free, open-source fractal explorer/renderer for XP/Vista.
Fractice is a free, open-source fractal explorer/renderer for XP/Vista. It supports navigation, history thumbnails, previews, antialiasing, deep zoom, printing, posters, palettes, multicore and distributed processing, movie recording, undo/redo, color cycling, and job control. It also has VJ features, such as mixing, mirroring, origin motion, palette tweening, dual-monitor, and MIDI.
Introduction
Fractice is a free, open-source fractal explorer for Windows. Fractice has a rich set of features, including navigation, deep zoom, movie recording, posters, palettes, multicore and distributed processing, history thumbnails, undo/redo, and job control. The fractal types currently supported are the Mandelbrot set, including higher-exponent variants, and the Newton fractal.
Features
* Navigate by drawing rectangles, dragging, or wheel zoom
* Continuous zooming via magnifier tool
* History bar shows thumbnails of where you've been
* Low-res preview is displayed before rendering begins
* Fit to window and actual-size scrolling view modes
* Antialiasing up to 16x using optimized supersampling
* Export bitmaps
* Printing and print preview
* Multi-threaded, multi-core rendering with CPU auto-detect
* Movie recording to compressed or uncompressed AVI files
* No size limit for recorded movies except disk space
* Distributed processing for both movies and exploring
* Palette editing via interpolated RGB or HLS gradients
* Change palette without re-rendering
* Import Fractint palettes
* Histogram of escape times
* Full-screen mode
* Unlimited undo/redo
* Cubic and higher exponent Mandelbrot/Mandelbar variants
* Poster export for images too huge to render otherwise
* Queue movie/poster renders to Job Control
* Color cycling
* DirectX full-screen Exclusive mode for VJing
* Mix between two images with automated crossfader
* Effects include mirror, origin motion, palette tweening
* Dual monitor support
* MIDI control of all parameters
http://fractice.sourceforge.net/