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- Fabulous quotes:
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- "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
- - Strawberry Fields Forever, by John Lennon, 1967, Magical Mystery Tour.
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- "Whisper words of wisdom, Let It Be."
- - Let It Be, by Paul McCartney, 1970, Let It Be.
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- Cut Here. Ask your mommy if you need help.
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- "Fractal Generator" v1.0 (c) 1988 by DUIABGTL Software.
- (Dreampt Up In A Boring Georgia Tech Lecture -aka- Jean Bulot)
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- I was very much impressed by CygnusSoft's MANDFXP so I decided to write
- my own. One of the things which became obvious was MANDFXP supported only
- a Julia and Mandlebrot - something I wanted to overcome. Thus I wrote
- "Fractal Generator" in C but left it open so the user could experiment
- with the fractal equations by himself. This allows for a much greater
- variety of patterns to be created but has its drawbacks - speed of
- computation. MANDFXP was a landmark of 68000 assembler programming
- in demonstrating the Amiga's computational ability. Because my program
- is written in C and uses GENERAL fractal equations, it can take up to
- 30 minutes to do a 640 by 400 with 16 iterations.
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- This release has iterations set at 16. You cannot alter this.
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- USAGE: fg
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- You will be prompted for a series of numbers:
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- 1) minimum x: should be between -3.0 and 0
- 2) maximum x: should be between 0 and 3.0
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- 3) minimum y: should be between -2.0 and 0
- 4) maximum y: should be between 0 and 2.0
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- Next come equation coefficients:
- 5) x coef A: between 0 and 3
- 6) x coef B: " "
- 7) x coef C: " "
- 8) x coef D: " "
- 9) x coef E: " "
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- Now more equation coefficients:
- 10) y coef A: between 0 and 3
- 11) y coef B: " "
- 12) y coef C: " "
- 13) y coef D: " "
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- Finally the screen size:
- 14) screen size: between 1 and 4. a 0 will abort the program.
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- Once the system begins plotting, you CANNOT stop until it's done. I
- eliminated a mouse button check to increase speed. When the program
- finishes, you will have to activate the CLI window and hit ESC then
- return to end the program.
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- *NOTES*
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- 1) If you do any idiot things, this program will freak. You should not
- give 0 and 0 for MIN X and MAX X for example. I purposefully designed
- the program with little error checking to keep it under 15k in length.
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- 2) Send any bug reports/suggestions to the address below.
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- 3) If you find this handy, send me some pocket change (College students
- are hungry (especially 17 year olds!) and constantly need food.)
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- Jean Paul Bulot
- C/O DUIABGTL Software
- GA Tech Box 30280
- Atlanta, GA 30332
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- or on The Hobbit's Hole BBS @ (904) 243-6219 as "Jean Bulot".
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- If you're interested in C source (Manx v3.6) I'll negotiate with
- you personally on the above BBS.
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