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Version History for Mandelbrot Explorer

This page explains what changes were made to each version of Mandelbrot Explorer.

Planned Features for Future Releases (next release will be 3.0)

  • Ability to design your own colour bands. Currently there is freedom to build colour schemes that are totally customised, or you can use a built-in scheme that repeats a series of colours at evenly spaced intervals. This new feature will allow you to design your own scheme like the built-in ones, where you pick the colours and how close the bands will be, and the colours are automatically cycled until the specified highest dwell is reached.
  • Better use of resources, and better screen refresh during processor-intensive operations.
  • Other fractals, not just Julia and Mandelbrot

Version 2.5.0. Release Date: 2 June 2005.

  • Website changed to make it readable in browsers other than IE. Sorry everybody!
  • Added ability to save the data that has been computed, not just the definition of the region to compute. Useful for lengthy calculations.
  • Added feature to the Zoom Save dialog to provide an estimate of how long the zoom will take to save
  • Change of URL for website and for e-mail contact
  • Fixed bug in Fractal Properties page: it used to show the wrong value for maximum dwell

Version 2.4.6. Release Date: 1 January 2004.

  • Spelling mistake corrected in shortcut!
  • Increased number of images that can be saved in a zoom to 999.
  • Changed zoom save feature so that files can be saved in .BMP and .JPG as well as .GIF format
  • Redesigned built-in colour schemes so that the colours are more evenly spaced at different magnifications. The old built-in colour schemes are installed into a sub-directory of the installation directory. You can load them from there if you wish to use the old schemes.

Version 2.4.5. Release Date: 15 October 2003.

  • Added undo feature for all changes in colour scheme