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I was surprised by the amount of people who asked for the code used to render the fractal in the screen shot of a previous blog entry. Since I used an external function written in C to generate the fractal the code needs a bit of explanation in order to get it working. As such, I've decided to post this entry for everyone who asked for the source (All right, all right all three of them). At the same time this is an excellent demonstration of how easy and powerful Scilab external routines can be.

The Scilab Consortium recently launched Scilab 5.2. Scilab is a numerical computing platform available for free under the CeCILL license. This release brings many features and enhancements making it even more powerful than ever before. The full list of change is available from the scilab website as well as the release notes.