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Fractalis
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About Fractalis
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This program is based on the little bit of information i got from the
Royal institution Christmas lectures shown on BBC 2 over Christmas '97.
The basic idea is a rather interesting fractal theory.
What Fractalis does is take several points on screen that you have
picked, and choose one of them, then it finds the place a certain
distance between that point and another randomly chosen point (one of
the points you chose) and plot a dot there. Its actually easier done
than said, so run the program and have some fun.
Installation and other stuff
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You have infinite options, but here are some suggestions.
- Copy the program, Fractalis, to anywhere and run it.
- Copy the #?.ftl files to where the program is, or anywhere else.
- Delete anything relating to Fractalis and play a game.
- Delete everything.
- Jump out of a window screaming "Have a banana".
- Ring up a mate, but don't speak.
- Read a book.
- Smell your armpits.
- Question why i am so wierd.
Will this work on your computer? I don't know as i've only tested it
on my A1200 with accelerator, But i don't think i have done anything
naughty so it should work on any Amiga with about 250K of free memory.
Using the program
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Simplicity itself, just load Fractalis and watch. Then click on the
screen a few times, go to the menus and work them out yourself. Load
in my examples and be in awe of my supremacy, or not.
Suggestions if you don't know what your doing
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Load the program and wait a little while as it builds the classic
triangle image. Now click in the top left hand side of the screen
just under the title bar and you should see the loverly triangles
get messed up as it all goes square/triangle shaped.
Now go to the 'Plot' menu and select 'Start/Stop plotting', then go
back to the 'Plot' menu and select 'Clear screen'. Now go to the
'Project' menu and select 'Load project', and from the list pick the
file named 'RandomLine.ftl'. Go back to the 'Plot' menu and select
'Start/Stop plotting' again and see the amazing line be drawn, wow.
Load the 'RandomLine.ftl' file again and again just to prove that it
really is random.
Load the file 'Arrow.ftl' and go straight to the 'Plot' menu and
select 'Clear screen'. You should see an arrow pointing left with
loads of other little arrows making up the big arrow.
Lets make a fractal from scratch. Go to the 'Plot' menu and select
'Clear all' to reset everything. Now click in the centre of the
screen, that dot is our nose. Now click once in each of the places
where you think the eyes should be. Keep clicking above the eyes
from left to right and up and down a little, this is the hair.
No go to 'Plot' and select 'Start/Stop plotting'. Its a bit of a
mess, but we will now clean it up. Go to the 'Plot' menu and select
'New movement speed' and a window will appear, so type in a small
number, ie 0.1, and press enter. Do it again, these values are for
the horizontal and vertical speed of movement. Now select
'Clear screen' from the 'Plot' menu. Looks more like a face
now doesn't it, and now as Fractalis is drawing click below the nose
a few times for the mouth and watch, as not only does the mouth start
to be drawn but all the other little faces start to get mouths aswell.
About me
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My name is Michael Caine.
My name is Chris Nash. My massive multi-million celled production team
is called `Calm' and has, at the last count, exactly one member of staff.
I live in little London town, south east. I am male, human, 6 foot 2 ish,
19 years old, English, brown hair, brown eyes, brown poo and play
badminton occasionally, i am part of the IRA and double agent in MI5.
I am also currently under the influence of lies, as are you. My Ea
(EM addr(E-Mail address(Electronic mail address(computer to modem
(modulator de-modulator) to modem to computer address)))) is:
ccaallmm@yahoo.com
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