IFS Explorer

Iterated Function System Explorer.

See the Exploring Iterated Function Systems article and the HTML documentation - also available as a PDF - for more details.

Features

Live transform editor
- Move, scale and rotate with mouse
- Edit transform properties
- Set affine matrix
- Update configuration
Live reflection editor
Final co-ordinate transforms
IFS renderer
- Colour and greyscale, with gamma
- IFS, Measure Set and Fractal Top modes
- Density estimation and Fractal Flame
- Printing and export to PNG
- Multi-threaded rendering
IFS details view
- Transform matrix and reflection coordinates
- HTML rendering and printing
Save and load as XML
Animated changes to IFS
Headless IFS image rendering

Program Requirements

Java 1.8.0+ Runtime Environment
Windows, Linux or OSX Operating System
Maven and 1.8.0+ JDK to build

TODO

Documentation
- JavaDoc for whole codebase
- Online HTML help
- Illustrate rendering modes
Improved full-screen mode
IFS enhancements
- Allow non-square aspect ratio
- Use unit vectors as basis
Platform support
- Web application and REST API
- Android application
Animator enhancements
- Document usage
- JSON configuration file parser
- Add camera movements (zoom and pan)
- Graphical sequence editor
- Scripted MPEG generation

Alongside these enhancements and new features, some of which are currently work-in-progress, both performance and UX improvements are always on-going.