QFRACTALNOW(1)

💖 qfractalnow — the QFRACTALNOW(1) glow-up 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're about to talk about qfractalnow, which lives in the QFRACTALNOW(1) section of your manual, and it is literally the prettiest way to explore fractals. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

qfractalnow — explore fractals and generate fractal images. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSYS 🌸

qfractalnow [OPTIONS]

(yes bestie, that's the whole thing, options and nothing else, she's a low-maintenance icon 💅)

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

QFractalNow is a graphical tool, based on the Qt library, that lets you explore fractals intuitively and generate pictures. like, actually intuitively. you point, you zoom, you gasp. 🫶

She's multi-threaded, and she implements advanced algorithms and heuristics that make computation very fast compared to most existing free fractal generators. she's not just pretty, she's fast. main character energy fr fr.

also, go check out FractalNow, a command-line tool to generate fractal images. her more introverted sister. both iconic. 🔥

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h — print help. your little "what do I even do here" button. 🙈
• -q — quiet mode. only errors get to speak. everything else is on mute. 💀
• -v — verbose mode. she will tell you everything. every last detail. she's a talker. 😭
• -j <NbThreads> — specify the number of threads. (peep the help for the default value, bestie 👀)
• -c <ConfigFile> — specify a configuration file, overriding the default configuration. she's got a whole personality and you're handing her a new one.
• -f <FractalFile> — specify a fractal file, overriding the parameters from the default configuration or the configuration file. fractal file wins, periodt.
• -r <RenderingFile> — specify a rendering file, overriding the parameters from the default configuration or the configuration file. again: rendering file, you're in charge now. 👑
• -g <GradientFile> — specify a gradient file, overriding the gradient from the default configuration, the configuration file, or the rendering file. this one outranks everybody. the final boss of gradients. 🌈
• -x <Width> — specify the image width. 📐
• -y <Height> — specify the image height. 📐
• -l <FloatType> — specify the float type:
  • single — single precision.
  • double — double precision.
  • ldouble — long double precision.
  • mp — multiple precision.
• -L <MPPrecision> — specify the precision of Multiple Precision (MP) floats. (see help for the default value ✨)
• -a <AntiAliasingMethod> — specify the anti-aliasing method:
  • none — by default. she's raw, she's unedited, she's natural.
  • blur — Gaussian blur.
  • oversampling — oversampling.
  • adaptive — smart oversampling. the brainy one. 🧠
• -m <MinAAMSize> — specify the minimum size of adaptive anti-aliasing. (see help for the default value 👀)

must be an integer strictly greater than 1. not 1. greater than 1. don't try it bestie, she will not be having it.

• -M <MaxAAMSize> — specify the maximum size of adaptive anti-aliasing. (see help for the default value 👀)

must be an integer strictly greater than 1 and strictly greater than MinAAMSize. so yes, she has to be bigger than her little sister. rules are rules.

• -n <AAMSizeIteration> — anti-aliasing size iteration. the anti-aliasing size will increase by steps of AAMSizeIteration from MinAAMSize to MaxAAMSize. she climbs the stairs one step at a time. 🪜
• -p <AAMThreshold> — threshold for adaptive anti-aliasing. (see help for the default value ⭐)
• -i <QuadSize> — maximum size of quadrilaterals for linear interpolation. the default is good for no visible loss of quality. (see help for the default value 💖)

1 means no interpolation — all pixels are computed. every single one. she does not cut corners.

• -t <Threshold> — dissimilarity threshold for quad interpolation. the default is good for no visible loss of quality. (see help for the default value 💖)

a quadrilateral that shows too dissimilar values at its corners will be computed, as opposed to interpolated. no shortcuts for the weird ones. 😌

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

QFractalNow was written by Marc Pegon <pe.marc@free.fr>. thank you king, we are obsessed. 👑

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

QFractalNow is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. legal but make it cute. ⚖️✨

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• The FractalNow manual page.
• Documentation files describing configuration, fractal, rendering and gradient files formats. (iykyk — read these before you start guessing at file formats, bestie 📚)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was QFractalNow, dated 2012-07-11, from the QFractalNow crew — thank her for her service, she's been iconic since 2012 and she's still slaying. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶