MANDELBULBER 1.21-1

project leader: Krzysztof Marczak project members: knighty, makemeunsee, Marius Schilder, Ryan Hitchman, Jeff Epler, Martin Reinecke, Quazgaa

contact: buddhi1980@gmail.com www: http://www.mandelbulber.com download site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mandelbulber/ SVN: http://code.google.com/p/mandelbulber/

LICENCE: GNU GPL v3.0

1. REQUIREMENTS

• Linux OS with installed GTK+2.0 libraries (version >2.20), libjpeg
• very fast CPU (recomended 2GHz, 4 cores)
• 2GB RAM

2. COMPILING

libgtk2.0, libjpeg8 are required to compile Mandelbulber.

On Ubuntu or Debian: sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libjpeg8-dev

openCl version needs additionaly ocl-icd-opencl-dev and ocl-icd-libopencl1

Then:

cd makefiles make all cd ..

3. INSTALLATION

please type: ./install

4. TESTED ON:

• Ubuntu x86
• Debian Wheeze x64 (there is also available Windows and Mac version)
• gcc 4.7

5. USAGE

Please visit: http://wiki.mandelbulber.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

command-line mode:

Syntax:
mandelbulber [options...] [settings_file] options: -nogui - start program without GUI -flight - render flight animation -keyframe - render keyframe animation -start N - start renderig from frame number N -end N - rendering will end on frame number N -o key=value - override item 'key' from settings file with new value 'value' -res WIDTHxHEIGHT - override image resolution -fpk N - override frames per key parameter -ip N.N.N.N - set application as a client connected to server of given IP address -port - set network port number for Netrender (default 5555) -format FORMAT - image output format jpg - JPEG format png - PNG format png16 - 16-bit PNG format png16alpha - 16-bit PNG with alpha channel format [settings_file] - file with fractal settings (program also tries to find file in ./mandelbulber/settings directory) When settings_file is put as command argument then program will start in noGUI mode