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From: jcz@sas.UUCP (John Carl Zeigler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Amgia World Ray-tracing article...
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Date: Tue, 19-May-87 02:03:29 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 19 02:03:29 1987
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> The first Mandelbrot generators I saw on my Amiga would take almost 2 minutes
> to plot the entire set.  But recently, a PD demo copy of MANDFXP would do the
> same set (presumeably using the same arithmetic) in about 5 seconds!!  Doesn't
> this suggest that one could invest some effort in improving the math used and
> realize some radical improvements?


If you can plot the ENTIRE set in 2 minutes . . . Well, you don't
need any improvement.   Isn't this the technique that Cray uses to get
the XMP-3 to do inf. loops in 2 secs?  :-)

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--jcz
John Carl Zeigler
SAS Institute Inc.
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