The Beauty of Fractals Lab : Graphics Software for the MacIntosh Version 1.2/Disk and Brochure in a Case by H. O. Peitgen

Book Description

With this program you can interactively explore the Mandelbrot set and its Julia sets including 3D renderings; you can find your own fantastic zooms and artistic color maps, and easily switch between 2D, 2.5D and 3D renderings.

This new, Version 1.2 features: interactive computation of Mandelbrot and Julia sets.- multiple windows and rectangular formats of images.- 3D rendering of potential (and distance estimator).- six algorithms to choose from.- tool icons and cursor info integrated into picture and window.- color shading for distance and potential.- binary decomposition of level sets.- help facility and refinement tool.- can work in background (Multi finder and System 7).- "Copy" and "Paste" allow you to insert the images into your favorite program or word processor.- editor for color palettes included.- load and save images from and to disk in compressed format. Hardware requirements: Apple Macintosh with floating-point coprocessor (e.g. Mac II, IIx, IIcx, IIci, IIfx, IIvx, Quadra, PowerBook 180 or - with optional coprocessor - IIsi, IIvi, Mac LC, etc.) running at least system 6.0.2, color or gray scale monitor (256 colors/shades) and one megabyte memory (two or more are preferred). This software is System 7 compatible.

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