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* Home * Fractals Home # Sterling2 Download Page Sterling2 is based on Sterling, a fractal-generating program written in 1999 by the redoubtable Stephen C. Ferguson. In mid-2007 I contacted Stephen, as I thought that Sterling was an excellent program that lacked one key feature a formula editor. He told me that adding a formula editor would be a huge job and that in any case the development environment to compile all the parts of Sterling was no longer available, as it is obsolete. However, he encouraged me to do the next best thing, which was to change the formulae in the program. With his help I set up the development environment on my PC and was able to recompile Sterling and to make changes to just one part of the program, ie the formulae. Other parts could not be changed.

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  • Apophysis

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  • Oxidizer

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  • Ultra Fractal

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