The Unbearable Lightness of Bit: Software

If you want to render an IFS to a raster image, you can use the chaos game or a deterministic algorithm.
Most IFS rendering softwares use the first alternative (e.g. XaoS and Apophysis), because of its simplicity and speed; but if you prefer watching your IFS while it grows, step after step, or you don't need to get 1,000 steps while drawings, or simply you're interested in a very simple IFS rendering program for didactic purposes... FractalJ is for you.

FractalJ is a very simple Java application coded by me and C. Russo; to describe IFSs (called "seeds" by the program), a scripting language similar to Logo is used. When FractalJ implementation was finished, I met L-System grammars. Too late... But quite similar to the grammar I used.

There's an extra command-line parameter to render multiple images of an interpolation between two different seeds. Below on the right, there's an animation I made with FractalJ and MEncoder.

Here you can download an high resolution version (Xvid, 5.4Mb) of the same video.

In a nutshell:

FractalJ IFS renderer
No installation required
Screenshots
Written in Java (for Linux, MacOsX, Windows, ...)
GNU GPLv3 license (it's free)
Direct download link (~28 Kb)

Inside the compressed archive you'll find:

Java source code
Scripting language brief description
Several scripting examples
Readme.txt

As written inside the "readme" file:

Please note: this software was NOT ment to be distributed. So, code is not well commented; usability is low; there is almost no error checking. It's just for didactic purposes.

So, I don't need to be sorry because of its terrible interface =)

You got it. You couldn't sleep thinking that your removed due to terms favourite video may have been violations or to some other very good reason. So, you just downloaded a video from YouTube (don't ask me how and ask the master!), and now you have a nice, little, harmless .flv file on your hd. But how to open it? You are thinking about downloading VLC player, or an unknown generic codec; or maybe you're so bright you already thought it's possible to transcode it with your favourite factotum: mplayer. Maybe you could even download a specific application that can only read .flv files! But there's a question silently crawling in your head... Why the hell my friends Firefox and Safari could open and play and even seek the .flv stream, while they don't know how to deal with the same stream coming from my local hd?
And you already know the answer, in the deep. They can. You just simply need to present the .flv under a different aspect; you need to wrap it in a Flash object (swf) you can compile by yourself, or you could ask an existent Flash reader to open the .flv file for you.

[update]
After a very long and difficult work period (two days)¹, finally I made a html-knowdlege-independent and effortless-to-use-even-for-dumb-users page; it's a little .flv player written only in html (with a flash object). You can download it from WatchTube (another cool thing is coming soon on that website). This lilttle reader supports also .swf videos and other media files. Finally, we have our free, cross platform, light, fast .flv reader. We do not depend anymore on any specific codec or dedicated reader. Use your own browser and enjoy!

In a nutshell:

Lory Player 1.1 Flash player
Reads Flash videos (*.swf, *.flv) and other formats (*.mp3, *.jpg, *.png, *.gif, RTMP streams)
No installation required
For Linux, MacOsX, Windows (virtually any version)
Tested on Firefox, IE6, IE7, Safari, Camino (requires Flash plugin)
Creative Commons license (it's free)
Direct download link (~120 Kb)

An online version (not working with local files, it's just a layout preview) is available here.

¹ Note added: when you say you had a "very long and difficult work period", and then you specify that the long period was just two days long, you can't be serious. Evidently it's a contradiction, or simply a (stupid) joke...