Corrected a minor bug. Registration number could only be entered by copy/paste -- typing didn't work because the edit field didn't allow hyphens, which are part of the reg code. This has been corrected; registration numbers can now be typed as well as pasted.
Corrected a bug introduced in 2.0.4: TIFF images weren't saved correctly when running on PowerPC Macs.
A bug prevented an image file from being saved if an image file of the same name had been previously saved in the same session. Fractal Domains would ask if the file was to be replaced, but would not actually replace it. This has been fixed. Also, possible problems with TIFF image saving have been fixed.
Fixed bug that caused the program to hang when attempting to autosave image files after rendering (affected JPEG, PNG and TIFF autosave).
Fixed bug that sometimes caused crashes when moving the mouse while previewing Julia images in the Preview window.
There was a bug in 2.0 that prevented Fractal Domains from running under OS X 10.2.8. This has been fixed in version 2.0.1.
Happy New Year! As we are entering 2007, Fractal Domains ends almost three years of being stuck at 2.0b5 and finally exits beta status. However, this is not as minor a change as might be suggested by the mere dropping of "b5." Although Fractal Domains 2.0 is identical functionally to 2.0b5, there are substantial changes under the hood.
First of all, it is now a Universal application, so it will run much more quickly on Intel based Macs. For a computation-intensive program such as Fractal Domains, native execution is especially important.
Second, the program is now multithreaded to take full advantage of multiple processors. Fractal Domains detects the number of processors/cores present and creates a computation thread for each CPU. More discussion of the performance improvements can be found on the Benchmarks page.
Originally, these features were planned for the rewrite of Fractal Domains (Fractal Domains X) that I have been working on, but as that project has proved to be more ambitious than I originally planned, I decided it would not be a good idea to wait until that project is completed to have a Universal version of Fractal Domains.
The Fractal Domains web site had not been upgraded for a long time, and the pages in the Fractal of the Week archive in particular had become a hodgepodge of styles from different points in the site's evolution, with different backgrounds and menu styles, obsolete banner code, etc.
At great effort the entire content of the site has been transferred to RapidWeaver, with some reorganization especially in the gallery section. I hope you find this site more attractive and usable as a result.
Corrected a bug that sometimes caused the title bar and/or the size box to be placed off screen, out of reach of the mouse.
Yet more color map bugs fixed, and a first draft of the 2.0 manual is included in PDF format.
I am trying to get 2.0 in shape to leave beta status, so I can clear the decks for Fractal Domains X development. I would appreciate it if anybody with bugs to report would write to me at support@fractaldomains.com right away so I can get them fixed. This is going to be the last version of Fractal Domains that will run under Mac OS 9, so I'd like to leave it in good shape.
