Fractint
Computer program to render and display many kinds of fractals / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fractint (originally FRACT386) is a freeware computer program to render and display many kinds of fractals. The program originated on MS-DOS, then ported to the Atari ST, Linux, and Macintosh. During the early 1990s, Fractint was the definitive fractal generating program for personal computers.[1]
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![]() The Mandelbrot set rendered in Fractint | |
Developer(s) | Stone Soup Group |
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Initial release | September 1988; 35 years ago (1988-09) |
Stable release | 20.04p14
/ August 22, 2015; 8 years ago (2015-08-22) |
Operating system | MS-DOS, Linux |
Available in | English |
Type | Fractal generating software |
License | Freeware |
Website | fractint |
The name is a portmanteau of fractal and integer, since the first versions of Fractint used only integer arithmetic (also known as fixed-point arithmetic), for faster rendering on computers without math coprocessors. Since then, floating-point arithmetic and arbitrary-precision arithmetic modes have been added.
FractInt can draw most kinds of fractals that have appeared in the literature. It also has a few "fractal types" that are not strictly speaking fractals, but may be more accurately described as display hacks. These include cellular automata.