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.\"     Title: mandelbulber2
.\"    Author: Giovanni Mascellani <gio@debian.org>
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.\"      Date: 08/09/2017
.\"    Manual: Mandelbulber2 User Manual
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.TH "MANDELBULBER2" "1" "08/09/2017" "mandelbulber2" "Mandelbulber2 User Manual"
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.SH "NAME"
mandelbulber2 \- 3D fractal renderer and animator
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'\fBmandelbulber2\fR\ 'u
\fBmandelbulber2\fR [\fIoptions\fR] [\fIfiles\fR]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
This manual page documents briefly the
\fBmandelbulber2\fR
command\&.
.PP
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page\&.
.PP
\fBmandelbulber2\fR
is a ray\-tracing application for drawing three\-dimensional fractals, like Mandelbulb, Mandelbox, Julia, trigonometric, hypercomplex or IFS fractals\&. It is highly customizable and features complex shading algorithms (among the others there are shadows, depth of field, ambient occlusion)\&.
.PP
\fBmandelbulber2\fR
is also able to produce animations and has a simple built\-in 3D navigator for exploring the fractals\&.
.PP
\fBmandelbulber2\fR
is a complete rewriting from scratches of
\fBmandelbulber\fR
by the same author\&. It will obsolete Mandelbulber as soon as it reaches feature parity\&.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.PP
\fBmandelbulber2\fR
is mainly meant to be used via its graphical interface and doesn\*(Aqt support many command\-line arguments\&. You can have a list of the supported options with their meanings using the
\fB\-\-help\fR
option\&.
.PP
The non\-option arguments will be interpreted as settings file names to load once the program has started\&.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
\fBGiovanni Mascellani\fR <\&gio@debian\&.org\&>
.RS 4
Wrote this manpage for the Debian system\&.
.RE
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
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Copyright \(co 2016 Giovanni Mascellani
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.PP
This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others)\&.
.PP
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation\&.
.PP
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License version 3 can be found in
/usr/share/common\-licenses/GPL\-3\&.
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