Chaotica v0.6
(c) 2010-2012 Glare Technologies Ltd.

www:   http://chaoticafractals.com
buy:   http://store.glaretechnologies.com/chaotica
help:  support@glaretechnologie.com


About:
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Chaotica is an IFS renderer with flam3/Apophysis compatibility.

It loads .flame files saved from a flam3-compatible editor (such as Apophysis),
and renders it with an interactive preview of the result. Modifications can be
saved in the native .chaos format.

This free version is intended for noncommercial use, and is resolution-limited
to 1920 pixels in either dimension. To purchase a commercial licence, please
visit the Glare Technologies Store page at the above URL.


Apophysis variation support:
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Many Apophysis plugin "variations" are natively supported, however for those
which are not the 32 bit Windows version of chaotica supports loading Apophysis
plugin DLLs.

These DLLs should be placed in the "plugins" subdirectory. During start-up, a
file called "plugin_log.txt" is produced which provides additional information
about the plugin discovery and initialisation process. Should your .flame file
fail to render, you can consult this log to see which DLL caused the problem.

Plugins can be blacklisted from loading by adding it to plugin_dll_blacklist.txt


Credits:
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Libraries used:

Qt: http://http://qt.nokia.com/
TinyXML: http://www.grinninglizard.com/tinyxml/
Mersenne Twister PRNG: http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt.html
OpenSSL: http://www.openssl.org/

Chaotica contains source code from Indigo Renderer, and therefore inherits its
licensing terms.


Special thanks to Jessica Orr, Erik Reckase, Georg Kiehne and everyone in the
deviantArt fractal community for their help and support! :ahoy:
