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From: cjp@vax135.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Amgia World Ray-tracing article...
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Date: Tue, 19-May-87 17:28:41 EDT
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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?

No.  Though this may be a good suggestion, what it suggests to me is
just that it takes about 5 seconds to load a precomputed image from disk.

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	Charles Poirier   (decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4,attmail)!vax135!cjp

	"The road to Hell is paved with good opinions."