FLARIUM 24 v.8.3 for Windows 95 & NT
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Flarium24 is a program that  generates fractal images which can also
be  used in  backgrounds and  textures for  other images, artwork or
photos. The minimum  requirements to run Flarium24 is  a system with
the Windows 95 operating system or  Windows NT, 8 Mbytes of Ram, and
a graphics  display that  is capable  of at  least 256  colors. High
color  or true  color is  preferred. The  program generates  fractal
images in a 24 bit true color mode and the images can be saved in 24
bit bitmap files.

This program  uses Win32 double precision  floating point operations
for all of the calculations.

The  Flarium24  program  can  draw  fractal  images  from a selected
formula in  three different methods. In  this program, these methods
are  refered  to  as  the   N-Set  (or  Newton)  method,  the  M-Set
(Mandelbrot) method and the F-Set (combination N-Set and M-Set). The
default  drawing method  is the  N-Set method.  To choose  the other
methods, select the F-Set or M-Set toggle toolbar buttons.

The formulae are separated into several categories. Formula 1 is the
classic   Mandelbrot  formula   z=z^2+c.  Formula   2  contains  the
generalized Mandelbrot  formula z=z^cn+c, which allows  for the user
to select the value of the complex number “cn”. The other categories
are  the  Newton  formula/  variations,  the  Paul  Derbyshire  Nova
formula/  variations, Shigehiro  Ushiki Phoenix  curves, Sir William
Rowan Hamilton’s Quaternions, several formulae contributed by Sharon
Webb, strange  attractor formulae based  on algorithms by  Julian C.
Sprott, and several other formulae  that were derived from books and
resources too numerous to mention at this time.