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Braktal
By: Bryan Powell
Presented: May, 2003
Supervisor: Susan Reiser
Overview:
Braktal is a program for generating fractals. Fractals are a fun and
exciting branch of mathematics. Braktal is capable of going beyond
the limitations of self-similar sets to include support for
generating self-affine sets, which means that a much larger class of
fractals can be generated. Furthermore, the program is
fully-customizable, by virtue of a menu system with a total of 69
options.
Development:
Braktal was developed in C++ using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Standard
Edition. I used the graphics library OpenGL, along with the Graphics
Library Utility Toolkit (GLUT), which is a simplification of OpenGL,
and was the API taught in the Computer Graphics course. (Be sure to
download the latest version of glut32.dll before running the
application.) I chose C++ because it's my favorite programming
language, and because I needed a language versitile enough and
robust enough for all the demanding calculations and graphics.
Conclusion:
Feel free to e-mail me at
bpcookie@msn.com with any comments, questions, or problems. I
hope you have as much fun using Braktal as I had making it. |