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- T r i p A T r o n V1.5
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- TripATron is a program designed to help you loose your personality inside
- a fractal legally. The images contained within are perfect for mellow
- parties, mad raves, home light sculptures, ambient music accompanyment and
- luring people into your shop. I can be in no way responsible for any
- dreamlike states or trances you may find yourself in after spending some
- time with TripATron, but if you do fall in and fail to come out again, there
- is always the escape key... if only.. you... could.. reach... it...
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- Inside this app, there are several other programs I have picked up over
- the years. 'Julia' is the S..L..O..W BASIC program used to generate these
- pictures. I can offer you no help in understanding it as it was only
- designed for me, and I understand it perfectly, so don't come whinging. It
- can however do some interesting tricks with fractals, if you're prepared to
- program it a little, including Mandelbrots, Julias, Inverse sets, Potential
- sets, Thumbnail sketches etc. All just by removing REMs and changing
- variables.
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- 'RLEncoder2' is the screen compacter used in TripATron. It uses the Mac
- PackBits algorithm which is excellent for fractals. It's a solid program
- that'll cope with everything up-to and including the worst-case, which is
- just a little bit more than an uncompacted screen (much better than Run
- Length Encoding). It does rely on the screen having rotational symmetry, but
- this can be hacked out.
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- 'Mandel13B' came about when I challenged Zeus (remember the teapot?) to
- write the fastest mandelbrot generator he could. This isn't it, as it
- doesn't have the multiply tables in yet. Still, it's pretty fast.
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- 'Scroll3' is Zeus's friends attempt. Apallingly programming style, so
- don't even TRY to understand how it works, but it GOES and GOES. It uses
- edge-detection to cut down on recalculation and uses previous screens to
- help with zooming. It's user controlled, so if you'd like to scroll around
- the mandelbrot set in real-time, the keys are on the keypad:
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- 8 and 2 = scroll up and down
- 4 and 6 = scroll left and right
- 1 and 9 = zoom in and out
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- 'FastJAnim' is a program written just to see if it could be written.
- Animates Julia sets in real time, and without using any huge databases of
- delta-filed screens. Cute, and it jumps up and down on the toes of Amigas
- and ESPECIALLY SMUG AMIGA USERS. That is until they try to poke fun at your
- software base when you end up having to use physical violence to make them
- see your side of the argument. Ah well.
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- Have a nice day, and RAVE ON YOU TECHNO MASSIVE!
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- - Orbital.