Index of /geminiatari/FILES/GRAPHICS/UTILITY/APFELMAN

 Name                    Last modified       Size  Description

 Parent Directory        24-Sep-2006 15:36      -  
 APFELMAN.PRG            09-Jan-1990 23:49    11k  
 APFELMAN.RSC            16-Jul-1990 16:24     3k  
 APF_ORIG.RSC            16-Jul-1990 15:53     3k  
 APM_FILM.PRG            09-Jan-1990 23:49    16k  

Howdy. This is a program that generates the Mandelbrot set, very quickly.
It works in High and Low resolutions only. The program originally appeared
in the German ST-Magasin, and was sent to me by Claus Priisholm in Denmark
(riddler@iesd.ac.dk). I've taken the liberty of using a resource editor to
translate the menu options to English. The original resource file is also
included in the ARC file. 

Since there are no other docs, here's a brief rundown on what the options
do, or as far I was able to determine from playing around...

File
	Quit	- Obvious.
	New	- Reset the coordinates to original values
	Load	- Load an image, DEGAS or Apfelman format
	Save	- Save image, same choices, I think
	Execute	- No automatic redraws, you must select this
		  after changing an option

Parameter
	Coordinates	- Select the region of the M-set to view
	Zoom Box	- Use the crosshair to select a region to zoom
	Options
		Scale	- Image size factor, 1-9
		Color Bias	- Dunno, really. The higher the number,
				  the fewer colors you get.
		Iterations	- Controls precision of computations.
				  Larger numbers give more detail, but
				  take a lot longer to draw.

Extra
	Menu Bar	- Turn off menu bar. Enable with a mouse click.
	Hardcopy	- Print the screen
	R,G,B		- Mask out a color
	Film	- Invoke APM_FILM.PRG. You can generate a sequence of
		  Apfelman format image files, and use them to produce
		  a sequence of DEGAS image files for blasting or other
		  viewing purposes. I don't remember what the prompts
		  mean, oh well.

It's a pretty cute program, though I don't think it really beats out
Fractint. Anyway, enjoy...
	 -- Howard Chu  July 1990