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From: hermit@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward)
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Subject: Re: "Mandelbrot 3" software
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Date: 2 Jul 90 22:57:51 GMT
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All this talk about FRACTINT...

The original message was a plug for a very good commercial program.
It's cheap (only $25) and does a lot of neat things, FAST.
	1) Walker: skip over large black areas entirely by defining the
	edge of such areas first.
	2) incremental drawing: Instead of doing a fully detailed draw,
	from the top of the screen to the bottom, or whatever, it does
	first every 8th pixel, then every 4th, then every 2nd, then
	every pixel.  So you see what you get before it's done.
	3) color cycling: produce very psychadelic images by having the
	colors shift through the entire pallette.  This is especially
	amazing in 256-color mode, with a spiral-shaped zoom.
	4) mouse interface.. very intuitive and easy to use.

No, I'm not affiliated with Midnight Beach software.

FRACTINT is not the competition for Mandelbrot 3... M3 is a commercial,
for-profit, you-can't-copy-this program.

If anyone is interested in the program, call 479-9916 voice or 476-4945
BBS (XBBS, a tree-based, message-base and interuser communcation BBS.
But you have to pay to chat or hail other users.  And read the
documentation or you won't understand the BBS.  The learning curve isn't
very easy, and the message base is >30MB, dating back about 5 years.)

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--William R. Ward              University of California, Santa Cruz, CIS
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