Repository files navigation

XaoS (pronouncedchaos) is a realtime interactive fractal zoomer. Thismeans that it lets you zoom smoothly into any place in the fractal youchoose without the long calculation required by other fractal generators.It has many other features too, like different fractal types, autopilot,special coloring modes, random palette generation, color cycling, etc.

XaoS (since version 4.3, September 2023) is available as a full-featured web application as well.You can try it atxaos.app.Also, you can try a simplified version of the XaoS zooming algorithm online usingXaoS.js.

XaoS is based onQt, and has been tested on Windows, Mac and Linux. Itshould also work on any other platform supporting Qt Widgets, like the BSDs.

• Original authors:Jan Hubička andThomas Marsh.
• Current maintainers:J.B. Langston andZoltán Kovács.
• SeeCREDITS for a complete list of contributors.

• GitHub Repo
• Binary Releases
• Documentation
• Issue Tracker
• XaoS website
• Users' Google Group
• Developer's Guide

XaoS is a community-supported free software project. The Google Group providesa place for XaoS users to help each other get the most out of XaoS. XaoSdevelopers also monitor this discussion and answer questions from time to time.You can browse the archives freely but to prevent spam, you must join the groupin order to post. Google Groups provides options for participation from atraditional mailing list to a completely web-based forum, so you don’t have toget emails if you don’t want to.

If you think you have found a bug in XaoS or have an idea for a new feature,please let us know about it. XaoS is developed on a volunteer basis and thedevelopers work on it in their spare time. Therefore, we can’t guarantee thatissues will be addressed in a certain timeframe. If you are able to fix a bugor implement a new feature yourself, pull requests are very welcome.

Copyright © 1996-2024 XaoS Contributors

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modifyit under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published bythe Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty ofMERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See theGNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public Licensealong with this program. If not, seehttps://www.gnu.org/licenses/.