How to Create or Modify a Design
- To create a new design, select File\New\IFS (F5).
- Enter the number of functions in the IFS window.
- Select the Design window (F4).
- Choose an initial polygon to work with from the Design menu.
- Modify the transformations as desired:
- Left click to select a polygon.
- Left click and hold mouse to move the polygon.
- Left click on a boundary square and drag to scale the polygon (or ctrl-S for dialog box). Shift-left click on one of the four corner squares to restrict the scaling to be equal in both directions.
- Ctrl-left click a corner squares to rotate the polygon (or ctrl-R for dialog box)
- Ctrl-left click a middle square to shear the polygon (or ctrl-E for dialog box)
- Select horizontal (ctrl-H) or vertical (ctrl-L) reflection
See the "design shortcuts" section for using the keyboard to transform the polygons. If you select "Show Preview" from the Design menu, you can see a rough preview of the IFS image (approximately 2000 plotted points) that changes immediately as you make a modification to a transformation.
- Select Design\New Transformation (ctrl-N) to add an additional polygon.
You may need to choose either Equal Probabilities or Proportional Probabilities from the Code menu to adjust the probabilities to include the new transformation. The latter bases the probabilities on the relative "size" of the transformations as measured by the determinant of the corresponding matrices.