Fyre, formerly de Jong Explorer, is a
cross-platform tool for producing artwork based on
histograms of iterated
chaotic functions. It implements the Peter de Jong map in a fixed function pipeline through either a
GTK GUI frontend, or a
command line facility for easier rendering of
high-resolution, high quality images. The program was renamed from de Jong Explorer to Fyre simply because ''
'It wasn't taken yet''' and so that in the future, it could support more functions than just the standard Peter de Jong map. Fyre features a sidebar on the left to which the user can input the required
variables and on the right is displayed the result of the equation.
Extra features
* Additional
image manipulation tools such as
Gaussian blurs and
Gamma
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controls are included in the program. The advantage to using them directly within Fyre is that the image
accuracy and quality do not decline.
* Fyre features
animation
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capabilities so that a user can link together several maps and create uncompressed
AVIs
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from them. However, the
uncompressed animation files are very large and so should be compressed with a separate tool, such as
mencoder.
Peter de Jong Map
For most values of a,b,c and d the point (x,y) moves chaotically. The resulting image is a map of the
probability that the point lies within the area represented by each pixel. Therefore, the longer that the user lets Fyre render for, the larger the probability map becomes and the more accurate the resulting image.
External links
Archive of Fyre home pageon Internet Archive Wayback Machine
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Graphics software
Graphics software that uses GTK
Graphics-related software for Linux