C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh) (10/09/89)
This would be a commercial posting, but as far as I know, the program
in question is copyrighted, freely distributable, and costs $0... :-)
MandelVroom 2.0 is the finest tool I have seen for exploring the Mandelbrot
Set and Julia Sets. Not only does it multitask with other programs in the
system (as all programs should), but each project and command in the menus
is a separate task. You can have several views of the Set generating at once
and/or use the Color Requester or the Contour Requester or Online Help or
etc. simultaneously. MandelVroom is very friendly with Online Help for each
Menu Item. It supports all Amiga screen resolutions and from 2-64 colors.
The Contour Requester is a *very* useful tool and allows you complete control
over coloring your images. You have a choice of 3 math modes for calculations
with the 68000 cpu and an additional 2 math modes if you have a 68020 cpu and
a 68881 math coprocessor. There is a Save ILBM feature and a command to make
your Image windows (projects) borderless. The entire program is very slick
and polished. The menus and windows have 3d-ish gadgets and there are zillions
of pre-generated Project images included on the disk. The program even has a
Special menu that has around 10 of Kevin's favorite projects. I could go on,
but...
Using the Save ILBM feature, I made several screens (four projects per screen
screen) for use in an animation. After making somewhere around 50 images, I
went into DPaint3 on a 1 meg Amiga and made a short ANIM of zooming into the
Mandelbrot Set. Now I just scratched the surface of what a truly ambitious
person could do, but the results are really quite nice.
SO, if you have any interest in the Mandelbrot Set, Julia Sets, the
Amiga, iteration of simple mathematical formulae on the complex plane,
or you just want something which will blow your PC/Mac friends away,
get Mandelvroom 2.0. I got my copy this past mid-summer. Here's
the pertinent info...
program: MandelVroom 2.0, copyright (c) 1987,1989
author: Kevin Clague
source of the source: Fred Fish's AmigaLibDisk 214
source of the executable: Fred Fish's AmigaLibDisk 215 <---what I got.
Oh, I originally wanted to mail a note to Kevin to congratulate him, but
the mailer was being diffult, so I wrote this recommendation for those
who have not given MandelVroom 2.0 a try yet.
And to Kevin, THANKS for a very nice program!
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