gnofract4d(1)

📦 version 4.4, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 gnofract4d 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the gnofract4d(1) manual page, the one and only. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let me tell you about the most iconic fractal situation on Linux.

✨ NAME ✨

gnofract4d — a GUI fractal generator/explorer. yes she's a whole vibe AND a whole program.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

gnofract4d

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so gnofract4d is a free, open source program that lets literally anyone create beautiful images called fractals. and when I say anyone I mean you, bestie, right now, no math degree required 💅

the images are automatically created by the computer based on mathematical principles — she's doing the math so you don't have to, periodt. these include the Mandelbrot and Julia sets and many more. you don't need to do any math: you can explore a universe of images just using a mouse. main character energy fr fr 🖱️✨

🎀 USAGE 🎀

gnofract4d [OPTIONS]

💖 OPTIONS 💖

okay so if you wanna generate an image non-interactively, you do this:

gnofract4d -s myimage.png -q myfractal.fct

she'll make the picture and dip. no chit-chat. iconic.

🌈 General Flags

  • -h, --help — show this message. the classic "what do I do" button 🫶
  • -v, --version — show version info
  • -q, --quit — exit as soon as the image is finished. she does her job and leaves, no lingering 😌
  • -X, --explorer — start in explorer mode

🦋 Fractal Settings

  • -p, --params FILE — use FILE as a parameter file
  • -s, --save IMAGEFILE — save image to IMAGEFILE after calculation
  • -i, --width N — make image N pixels wide
  • -j, --height N — make image N pixels tall
  • -P, --path P — add P to the formula search path
  • -f, --formula F#func — use formula func from file F
  • --inner F#func — use coloring algorithm func from file F
  • --outer F#func — use coloring algorithm func from file F
  • --transforms F#func1,F2#func2 — apply transforms func1 and func2
  • -m, --maxiter N — use N as maximum number of iterations
  • --map FILE — load map file FILE

🌟 Positional Parameters

  • --xcenter N
  • --ycenter N
  • --zcenter N
  • --wcenter N
  • --xyangle N
  • --xzangle N
  • --xwangle N
  • --yzangle N
  • --ywangle N
  • --zwangle N
  • --magnitude N

🙈 Obscure settings

  • --trace — produce voluminous tracing output. she's gonna yap. a lot. 💀
  • --nogui — run with no UI (doesn't require X or GTK). headless queen 👑

⭐ VERSION ⭐

3.4

💀 BUGS 💀

none known... which is lowkey suspicious but we move 🧚

report discovered bugs here:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=785&atid=100785

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Tim Whidbey

this man-page was written by Aleksander Adamowski <aleksander.adamowski@gmail.com> as part of "The Missing Man Pages Project". please see http://www.netmeister.org/misc/m2p2/index.html for details. slay, honestly 🌈

and that's the whole page bestie!! 💜 this was gnofract4d version 3.4, dated 19 July 2007, and the footer says Linux — go make some fractals, you absolute legend 🎀✨

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