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From: cgoudeseune@watnot.UUCP (Camille Goudeseune)
Newsgroups: net.graphics
Subject: Re: net.graphics.fractals
Message-ID: <11257@watnot.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 22:43:46 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  3 22:43:46 1985
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Reply-To: cgoudeseune@watnot.UUCP (Camille Goudeseune)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

>	  However, net.graphics is an ideal forum for trading tips and
>	tricks  on Mountains and those swirly 3D things (which are two
>	completly different functions, incidentally).
>	  Maybe it's time to establish net.graphics.fractals ?

Hear, hear.  I'm a new user of the net, but I've been mucking about with
fractals - especially those "swirly things" - for a few months now, with
the help of Benoit Mandelbrot's book "The Fractal Geometry of Nature."
Just this evening I've managed to send bit-map images to a printronix
printer on our system, so with 2112-by-xxxx resolution I hope to be able
to see whether or not the pascal program I'm using makes any sense.
(It's hard to tell when you're using 1-pixel-per-character decwriters!)
(It's even harder when you try it with a ZX81 - although it costs less,
 and I've managed to print out 256*256 images with its $50 printer, the
 turnaround time is measured in days if the local power utility is nice,
 months otherwise.)  Anyway, once I get some pretty pictures worth letting
the rest of the world know about, I'll post a pascal listing.

				Camille Goudeseune
				2054 Waycross Cres.
				Mississauga, Ont., Canada
				L5K 1H9