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- STARTING OUT
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- After clicking on the M.A.K. icon you will see the Mandelbrot
- Adventure Kit window for a second then the screen will go
- blank during which time the program will load the title page.
- The title page will fade in about 5 seconds, and at that point
- you will be in M.A.K.. You should set up all parameters first;
- if you have questions about any of the sections that you have
- to deal with, consult the Info item on the 1st menu. Remember
- in order to see a fractal YOU MUST SELECT THE APPROPRIATE ZONES
- AND CLICK THE O.K. GADGET; this gives the program permission to
- use those colors.
-
- IMPORTANT CONCEPTS
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- Keep in mind that high magnifications require more iterations.
- If you have set the zones and you still aren't seeing a picture,
- perhaps the number of iterations are not high enough or you have
- chosen values that are in an area considered as infinity (in
- which case no amount of iterations will be sufficient to see a
- picture). Speaking of high magnifications, this program is
- capable of generating correct fractals up to a magnification
- factor of approximately 100,000. The magnification factor can
- be found by taking the smallest distance between either the real
- or imaginary parameters and dividing that number into 1.
-
- For example, the fractal in the Pictures directory named Mand_4
- has a magnification factor of 98,039. Found by taking the
- difference of the imaginary parameters
- (0.1130139 - 0.1130037 = 0.0000102) and dividing that number
- into one (1 / 0.0000102 = 98,039.21569).
-
- Once you start a drawing YOU CANNOT SAVE WHILE THE DRAWING IS
- STILL ACTIVE.
- This can be done as soon as the drawing has finished.
-
- FINAL NOTES
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-
- I wish I could have put all the pictures I generated on this
- disk (I had to leave off some real beauties). Be aware that
- some of these generations can take a LONG time to finish. The
- picture Mand_5 took more than 38 hours to generate completely.
-
- The parameters contained in the Parameters directory are a very
- valuable source of information on how I generated these pictures.
- If you load in the parameters, you can go through each of the
- requesters (for that particular image) and see how to set things
- up so you have a general idea of where to start from for your own
- creations.
-
- All the source has been arced with zoo. If you want to reconstruct
- the program you'll need to unarc the source then compile everything
- that needs compiling and type execute blink.lin at the cli prompt.
- I used Lattice version 5.1.1 and compiled everything with lc -fim
- <filename> except Information.c which has to be compiled with lc -b0.
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- Have fun.....
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