Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watnot.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!water!watnot!cgoudeseune 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 Article-I.D.: watnot.11257 Posted: Wed Jul 3 22:43:46 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jul-85 00:45:10 EDT References: <1909@ukma.UUCP> <243@kovacs.UUCP> Reply-To: cgoudeseune@watnot.UUCP (Camille Goudeseune) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 22 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