Updated links to galleries so they should work now.
I’ve created two new galleries of gnofract4 fractals, Gallery 3 and Gallery 4 in addition to the ones, Gallery 1 and Gallery 2, that I put up about a year ago.
If you want to see more, the developer of gnofract4d now has a blog called Chaos Engine showing his fractals.
I’ve been running Ubuntu as my desktop Linux distribution for several months. About my only disappointment with Ubuntu was that it didn’t include gnofract4d in the universe or multiverse repositories. gnofract4d is a fractal exploration program that I like to use.
Last week, I decided to see if I could figure out the dependencies the gnofract4d needs to run on Ubuntu. I downloaded the gnofract4d tar file from SourceForge, and started trying to install it. An hour later, after I used Synaptic to install g++-3.4, gtk2-engines-dev, and python2.4-dev and their dependencies, gnofract4d was running on my system. I had already installed gcc (the compiler gnofract4d uses) previous to this.
gnofract4d is under continuous development. There were a lot of improvments since the last time I had used it under Fedora Core six months ago. It also seems a lot more stable. I used to crash it on a fairly regular basis, but don’t seem to be able to do that any more.
Thanks for the comments! I like the pictures.
Just a note – the links to the fractal pages in the body of your post appear to be broken, and when you click on the larger images on the fractal pages themselves you get a 404 as well.
Thank you for telling about sucessfully installing gnofract4D in Ubuntu. I am new to Linux and just installed it and wanted a fractal program. Your notes helped me get it running. I had the wrong package but this gnofract4d-python24-2.13-1.i386.rpm package works with RPM installed using (alien -i ‘above package’). I am blown away by the first fractal it made (I came from UltraFractal3) so I’m impressed. Cheers, Paul