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From: numccann@plains.NoDak.edu (Lester I. McCann)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: A Mandlebrot Set question (forgive me...)
Message-ID: <1989Aug9.021640.13830@plains.NoDak.edu>
Date: 9 Aug 89 02:16:40 GMT
Reply-To: numccann@ndsuvax.UUCP (Lester I. McCann)
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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	Yes, a Mandelbrot question.  Know about the book The Science of
Fractal Images (ed. by Peitgen and Saupe)?  Appendix D of that tome contains
a different sort of algorithm for finding and displaying the set.  I thought
it looked interesting, and I sat down to try it.

	I have the code entered, but I'm having the darnest time trying to
figure out good values for the handful of parameters the routines
require.  The authors, unfortunately, are not always very helpful in giving
examples and suggested values to go with their code.  Can anyone help
me out by suggesting some "nice" values for the parameters?  (Specifically,
maxiter, delta, recur, and overflow.  Note that I am not yet interested in
areas of the set to look at; that's a distant concern.)  Many thanks.

Lester McCann
numccann@plains.nodak.edu  or  numccann@ndsuvax.bitnet