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- The fractal program is an application that will draw the Mandelbrot set
- and Julia sets. You should have three files, this README.TXT file, the
- FRACTAL.EXE file, and FRACTAL.HLP file. The only file that is necessary
- is the FRACTAL.EXE file, but you will not have help information. This
- application should run under windows 3.0 and 3.1. It requires at least
- a 286 CPU and a 80x87 math coprocessor. A version without the 80x87 is
- being developed, but it will probably be too slow to run on a 286
- machine. The right mouse button can be used in the Mandelbrot window to
- select a "c" to generate a Julia set. Points on the edge of the
- Mandelbrot set give the most intricate Julia sets. Points on the right
- seem to generate "dragons". The Julia sets will resemble the area around
- the point on the Mandelbrot set where the constant "c" was selected. It
- is fun to look at the Julia set at the point "c" that was used to
- generate the Julia set. The files m_0001.bmp and j_00086 are the
- Mandelbrot set (with Width set to 0.0001) and the Julia set (with Width
- set to 0.00086) about the point -0.745429 0.113008i with 300 iterations.
- Double-clicking the left mouse button in a window causes a "zoom" into
- the point where the cursor is. Since double clicking also increases the
- number of iterations, you may want to manually zoom in by selecting the
- draw option, and setting the width and height fields to one-fifth or
- one-tenth their previous values. If you find that it is taking too long
- to draw a figure, press <ESCAPE> to abort the drawing. Drawings always
- fill the frame, so a small window will draw faster than a large window.
- Comments about this program can be sent to
- beeker@sun19.hq.af.mil on internet.
-
- Copyright 1993 by Emmet R. Beeker
- 4298 East Robinson Road
- Bloomington, IN 47405
-
- Permission is granted to copy and distribute these files as long as no
- charge is made and this disclaimer is included. No warranty is made or
- implied for this program.
-