X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,70fcbec30aae4b9e X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-28 06:37:53 PST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!btnet-peer!btnet!nntp.news.xara.net!xara.net!gxn.net!server6.netnews.ja.net!server4.netnews.ja.net!server2.netnews.ja.net!bath.ac.uk!ab6rah From: ab6rah@bath.ac.uk (R A Hart) Subject: Re: Challenge... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Organization: School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath, UK Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:22:09 GMT Lines: 29 Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:4965 In article , Lemming writes: > I never tried Koch curves, but I did write a Mandelbrot Set generator > in COBOL on a Burroughs B3900 mainframe. I wrote a Mandelbrot Set generator for my graphical calculator. The thing only had about 400 words of program store, and it took an hour to draw a 96 by 64 pixel image. (I think I used an iteration limit of about 16) > The resolution was piss poor, but it was fast :) If you have linux (or probably other UNIX), you should try out Xaos. It has a ncurses (i.e. character) mode, and can do real time zoom - quite surreal. Manages about 200fps of standard 80x25 Rob http://www.bath.ac.uk __/\__ Robert Hart /~ab6rah/ \ / Ground Floor Flat __/\__/ \__/\__ 2 Alexander Buildings \ / Bath /_ _\ BA1 6AT \ / __/\__ __/ \__ __/\__ \ / \ / \ / __/\__/ \__/\__/ \__/\__/ \__/\__