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MARTIN fractal program by Alan Meiss
MARTIN is a "screen-saver" fractal graphics display written in Turbo
Pascal 4.0 using a formula developed by Barry Martin of Aston University
and listed in "Dynamical Systems and Fractals", an excellent book by
Karl-Heinz Becker and Michael Dörfler, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
The central formula that generates the myriad beautiful fractal designs
takes only two lines of code, and involves nothing more complex than the
square root function!
MARTIN1 will run on computers equipped with a math coprocessor, and MARTIN2
more slowly on those not. MARTIN.PAS is the Turbo Pascal source code,
released in the public domain for all to modify and enjoy. MARTIN may be
run with an integer number as a command line parameter specifying how many
cycles (color changes) should be made before starting a new design, and
pressing a key while running will manually move on to a new design.
Alan Meiss
2626 Parkwood Drive
Speedway, IN 46224
Internet: ameiss@gn.ecn.purdue.edu