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- Howdy. This is a program that generates the Mandelbrot set, very quickly.
- It works in High and Low resolutions only. The program originally appeared
- in the German ST-Magasin, and was sent to me by Claus Priisholm in Denmark
- (riddler@iesd.ac.dk). I've taken the liberty of using a resource editor to
- translate the menu options to English. The original resource file is also
- included in the ARC file.
-
- Since there are no other docs, here's a brief rundown on what the options
- do, or as far I was able to determine from playing around...
-
- File
- Quit - Obvious.
- New - Reset the coordinates to original values
- Load - Load an image, DEGAS or Apfelman format
- Save - Save image, same choices, I think
- Execute - No automatic redraws, you must select this
- after changing an option
-
- Parameter
- Coordinates - Select the region of the M-set to view
- Zoom Box - Use the crosshair to select a region to zoom
- Options
- Scale - Image size factor, 1-9
- Color Bias - Dunno, really. The higher the number,
- the fewer colors you get.
- Iterations - Controls precision of computations.
- Larger numbers give more detail, but
- take a lot longer to draw.
-
- Extra
- Menu Bar - Turn off menu bar. Enable with a mouse click.
- Hardcopy - Print the screen
- R,G,B - Mask out a color
- Film - Invoke APM_FILM.PRG. You can generate a sequence of
- Apfelman format image files, and use them to produce
- a sequence of DEGAS image files for blasting or other
- viewing purposes. I don't remember what the prompts
- mean, oh well.
-
- It's a pretty cute program, though I don't think it really beats out
- Fractint. Anyway, enjoy...
- -- Howard Chu July 1990
-