Fractorium

A Qt-based fractal flame editor which uses a C++ re-write of the flam3 algorithm named Ember and a GPU capable version named EmberCL which implements a portion of the cuburn algorithm in OpenCL.

Download

Windows: TODO

Linux: TODO

Mac OS/X (10.9+): TODO

Building from git

Windows

TODO

Linux

Install git and clone the repository:

sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/mfeemster/fractorium

Install the dependencies:

sudo apt-get install g++ libdbus-1-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libgl-dev libglm-dev libjpeg-dev libpng12-dev libtbb-dev libxml2-dev qt5-default qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev libqt5opengl5-dev opencl-headers nvidia-opencl-dev

Compile the binary:

cd fractorium
qmake
make

Run the binary from the release folder:

cd Bin/release
./fractorium

sudo make install will install the files directly. sudo make uninstall is also available.

You can also compile a .deb package to install locally. A few more tools will be necessary:

sudo apt-get install bzr bzr-builddeb dh-make debhelper

A helper script is available, use package-linux.sh in the project root. It will create ~/PPA/fractorium-VERSION as a work folder, by default it builds a signed source package.

For local use you probably want an unsigned binary package:

cd fractorium
./package-linux.sh --binary-only --unsigned

Mac OS/X 10.9+

Install Xcode from the App Store. Install homebrew.

Install git and clone the repository:

brew install git
git clone https://github.com/mfeemster/fractorium

Install the dependencies:

brew install qt5 tbb glm dbus jpeg libpng glib libxml2

TODO: Confirm if glib and libxml2 are actually needed.

Add the Qt bin folder to PATH to make qmake available. In ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc:

PATH=/usr/local/opt/qt5/bin:$PATH
export PATH

Compile the binary:

cd fractorium
qmake CONFIG-=app_bundle
make

Run the binary from the release folder:

cd Bin/release
./fractorium

OpenCL tips

Nvidia, Ati, Intel.

Windows

TODO

Linux

TODO

Mac OS/X

TODO