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- This Fractal geometry program draws Julia sets and pools of
- attraction (v 5.0b6).
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- The program only runs on a Mac II. It directly addresses the
- MC68881 FPU and draws in 16 colors (greys). Make sure
- that you have that many colors turned on.
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- With version 5.0b6 the program now allows entry of the seed
- values and depth limit. The seed values are specified in 8
- digits to the right of the decimal point, zero to the left.
- Depth limit is the count of how many iterrations before
- the program will give up on a pixel. The edits on these fields
- could be better, so treat your data entry with care.
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- The program is freeware, so pass it on as much as you
- want. It takes about 10 minutes to draw the Mac II screen.
- To stop it, hold the mouse button down until the next line is
- drawn. The picture will be drawn on whichever monitor is the
- main screen. That monitor should have 16 colors (or greys).
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- The main calculation loop has eight floating-point math
- instructions and five floating-point control (FMOVE, FCMP, etc)
- instructions. The limit is set to 256 itterations per pixel.
- So that means that "yellow" pixels in the pool area execute
- about 2048 floating-point math instructions. There are about
- 430 rows in the drawing and I estimate that about 300 pixels per
- line are in the yellow "pool" area. As you work your way back up
- the strands, less itterations are required. For the yellow "pool"
- pixels I estimate that there are at least 250 million floating-
- point instructions executed. (8 * 256 * 430 * 300).
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- With version 5.0b9 I have fixed the mouse-down detection so that it
- now uses _GetNextEvent instead of _MouseDown. This allows FKEY's to
- capture the screen. Also changed is the X and Y coordinates may
- now be negative. I have found a couple of additional interesting
- x/y pairs:
- x -1.254024 y 0.046252
- x -0.19920 y 1.01480
- If you have favorites, please send them to me at the address below.
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- If you have comments or suggestions for improvements you can
- reach me at any of the following:
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- GEnie: RAYSANDERS
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- Compuserve: 70277,3233
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- Ray Sanders
- Green Grass Software, Inc.
- P.O. Box 570
- Dunedin, Florida 34697-0570
- (813) 796-2272
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