HOP Feature Overview

Visit the gallery to see HOP's unique imagery.

While you can use HOP to generate those scientific-looking black-and-white attractor plots, HOP goes far beyond this by introducing a number of unique mathematical and graphical special effects. The multitude of different attractor shapes and their surprising real-time animation behaviour, enhanced by HOP's special effect sections, will make your computer screen explode with stunning colors, movements, and images unlike anything you've seen before.

HOP features

several dozen attractor formulas
several kinds of warping/distortion/transformation algorithms
animations based on successive formula values

various types of simple and complex pixels, lines, and backgrounds
3-D like shadow effects
several types of colorscroll
reading, editing, and writing of Fractint color files

While HOP can improvise on its own without ever repeating, you can hand-tailor each of its image/effect parameters and save them either as GIF files (as can be seen in the gallery) or as collections of Fractint-like parameter sets.

HOP can be used as a screensaver for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 (you need an additional file if you want a screensaver for DOS). The screensaver can either improvise (never repeating), or playback collections of your own (or somebody else's) HOP creations.