Mark Eggleston

United Kingdom

Obviously that isn't me.

I've been interested in fractals since the "Computer Recreations" column in the November 1987 issue of the Scientic American.

The first fractal image I produced was in black and white using a dot matrix printer and the program was written in Pascal on a PDP-11 minicomputer using the RSX-11M+ operating system. This was sometime in 1989 when I should have been using the equipment for work.

All the fractals in my gallery have been produced using my own programs initially with Mars, Phobos, Luna & Terra (not released) which have since been superseded by Saturn & Titan (released at version 1.0 now at version 1.1).

The programs are:

mars - fractal exploration allowing png seed files to saved. Now using Saturn.
phobos - expands png seed files to much higher resolutions up to the DA maximum and beyond. Now using Titan
terra - also expands png seed files, stores calculated results in a PostgreSQL database so that expansions that take significant amount of time can be suspended and resumed at will so that I don't have to leave the computer running 24 hours a day, every day. Work on a replacement for Saturn seed files has not started.
luna - user interface to terra for adding, deleting and modifying jobs and monitoring progress. Work on a replacement for Saturn seed files has not started.

Saturn and Titan for Linux and Windows 7 are available for download at Element90 Fractals.

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