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- FRACTAL WIZARD 1.5 - ABSTRACT
-
- ! Fractal Magic -> Fractal Wizard
- !
- ! Originally, Fractal Wizard was called Fractal Magic. Shortly after I posted
- ! it on Internet, I discovered that a commercial fractal-drawing program with
- ! the same name (and much the same features) already existed. So, to avoid any
- ! confusion and unpleasantness, I renamed my program Fractal Wizard and
- ! reposted it. If you already have my Fractal Magic, please replace it with
- ! this version. I made some improvements, and it is still freeware!
-
- Fractal Wizard is a complex-plane fractal drawing program. It can generate
- black and white or 8-bit colour images. The fractal-calculation code is kept
- separate from the main program code, which handles displaying in windows,
- saving PICT files, and other things. The fractal generators can be compiled
- separately with MPW or THINK Pascal, or any other development environment that
- lets you generate stand-alone code. Fractal Wizard itself will allow you to
- import these generators and test and use them.
- Fractal Wizard includes generators for the Mandelbrot set, Julia sets, and a
- distorted Mandelbrot version. Instructions for writing your own can be found
- under Help.
- The standard Mandelbrot set generator is hand-hacked assembly language, using
- the FPU only when magnification becomes too large for using 32-bit fixed point
- numbers. Using fixed point speeds calculation up by a factor of about 3. In
- that mode, it outruns any straight escape-time Mandelbrot-set drawing program
- for the Mac II I've ever seen. Full help is included, and can be saved in
- separate files to be printed.
- Fractal Wizard requires an 68020, 68881, Colour QuickDraw, and System 6.0 or
- newer. Currently, this means it will run on the SE/30 and all Mac II models,
- except the IIsi. You should be able to get Fractal Wizard to run on a IIsi or
- LC if you add an FPU to them, or use John M. Neil's PseudoFPU cdev.
-
- If you have comments, suggestions or questions about Fractal Wizard, you can
- try e-mail:
-
- thomas@duteca.et.tudelft.nl
-
- If that fails (I don't know for how long I'll have that address), snail mail
- will work:
-
- Thomas Okken
- Marie Curieweg 40
- 3731 CH De Bilt
- Netherlands
-