Re: Simple graphical software for manually plotting fractals?
"Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <jordigh@gmail.com> writes:
> On 15/10/2007, Brett Viren <bv@bnl.gov> wrote:
>> "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <jordigh@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Suggestions?
>>
>> "NETPBM" (libnetpbm10-dev). This is C library which povides a very
>> simple interface for manipulating bitmapped images at the pixel level.
>> It treats the bitmaps as 2d arrays in memory and will let you output
>> to many file formats including PNG.
>
> And for plotting to an X window?
Yes, netbpm will be "batch mode" only, afaik. Your students would
have to rely on an external image viewer.
It has been too long but I think plotutils can write live to an
X-window. I used it for doing vector based drawing so don't know how
well, or even if, it supports bitmapped work. Maybe someone else can
comment.
Beyond that, I can only suggest low level toolkit stuff (eg,
gtk+/gtkmm) but this gets your students too far away from doing the
fun stuff, I guess.
-Brett.
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