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- Contour Palette Help Information
-
- Pulling down this menu item opens
- the Contour Palette. The Contour
- Palette gives you direct control
- over coloration of your Mandelbrot
- and Julia pictures.
-
- Mandelbrot and Julia pictures can
- take a long time to generate. They
- can also be difficult to color in
- such a way as to make them look
- pretty. MandelVroom provides two
- things that help alleviate these
- problems.
-
- First, MandelVroom allows you to
- change color schemes and recolor
- pictures while they are generating.
- Second, MandelVroom gives you a
- very flexible and powerful set of
- tools for coloring your pictures.
-
- MandelVroom treats a Mandelbrot or
- Julia picture as a three
- dimensional object. Two of the
- three dimensions are the familiar
- horizontal and verticle dimesions
- of your project's picture window.
-
- You can think of the third
- dimension as sticking straight out
- of your monitor's screen.
- MandelVroom treats this third
- dimension as height or altitude.
-
- The Contour Palette gives you a
- configurable way of mapping the
- third dimension (height) into color
- in your project window.
-
- Often, when map makers want to
- represent our three dimesional world
- on a two dimensional piece of paper,
- they use color to represent height.
- Map makers provide a key somewhere
- on the map indicating which colors
- represent specific ranges of
- heights.
-
- The Contour Palette is a user
- configurable map key that defines
- which altitiude ranges get mapped
- into the colors available in the
- Color Palette.
-
- To get more specific help on the
- Contour Palette, open the Contour
- Palette, and then use the Help item
- to get help with the Contour
- Palette gadgets.
-
- The user guide (MandelVroom.doc)
- discusses contours and the three
- dimensional aspects of MandelVroom
- in greater detail.
-