dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) (10/12/90)
Archive-name: mandelzot/11-Oct-90 Original-posting-by: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) Original-subject: MandelZot 3.0 ready to go... anybody have anon FTP storage? Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) The latest version of MandelZot, a freeware fractal-imaging program for the Macintosh, has been released. Version 3.0 has two major enhancements over earlier versions: * It's extensible... it can iterate formulae other than the Mandelbrot quadratic. You can write your own iteration modules, and use MandelZot to explore almost any formula you can think of. You can even explore non-Mandelbrot'ish constructs, such as chaotic attractors. * It has improved support for 32-bit Color QuickDraw. You can have thousands of colors on-screen if you have a 24-bit color card. You can print (or create slides with) thousands of colors, even if you only have an 8-bit color card. You can use dithering to view MandelZot's color images with a 4-bit (16-color) color card. I've mailed it to the moderators of the Info-Mac mailing-list/archive at SUMEX, and to the moderator of comp.binaries.mac. Unfortunately, both of these channels have a rather hideous backlog in their queues (4-6 weeks, I believe). Is there anybody out there who has some free storage, and would be willing and able to make MandelZot available for anonymous FTP? I can't offer to do this myself, unfortunately, as my site isn't on the Internet. I've set it up as two StuffIt archives... one with the application, some extension modules, and sample coordinates, and another with the user manual, documentation on the external-module interface, and the #include file which defines the interface parameters. The StuffIt archives are on the order of 140k each in MacBinary format, or about 200k each as BinHex 4.0 documents. Anybody willing? If so, please drop me a note.