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Fractals on the 7650

16 replies · 2,850 views · Started 25 October 2002

Hi again y'all,

these screen-shots were generated on the 7650 using an updated (by me) version of the FractalMidlet (By Norbert Schuler).

My question : is there demand for this midlet, i.e. should I try to get Norbert to let me release it in the updated version?

bw, Staffan

i think you should tell the original author that you've updated his program.

what does it do by the way???

.... (with who's permission I updated the code). I'll return here with the midlet if it's OK with him.

As for what it does; - nothing, silch, nada

Or I could say that it uses imaginary-number mathematics to display the complexity of real-world chaotic system by a series of iterative functions

Or, in lay-man's terms - it draws pretty coloured fractals on Your 7650. If anything else, it's quite a good show-off of the quite astounding processing-capacity that the 7650 has

bw, Staffan

Super wall-paper by the way!

18-45 seconds

Speed depends primarilly on how deep we have to go. I'll explain shortly:_

The basic algorithm is: For each pixel c, start with z = 0. Repeat z = z^2 + c up to N times, exiting if the magnitude of z gets large. If you finish the loop, the point is probably inside the Mandelbrot set. If you exit, the point is outside and can be colored according to how many iterations were completed. You can exit if |z| > 2, since if z gets this big it will go to infinity. The maximum number of iterations, N, can be selected as desired, for instance 100. Larger N will give sharper detail but take longer.
(copied from : http://fractals.iuta.u-bordeaux.fr/sci-faq/mandelbrot.html)

bw, Staffan

Hi,

You can get the updated midlet with 135 color Mandelbrot-set generator from

http://www.epublica.de/midlets/

It will also be available later at midlet.org

bw, Staffan

Hi,

You can get the updated midlet with 135 color Mandelbrot-set generator from

http://www.epublica.de/midlets/

It will also be available later at midlet.org

bw, Staffan

[quote="ssevon"]Hi,

You can get the updated midlet with 135 color Mandelbrot-set generator from

http://www.epublica.de/midlets/

It will also be available later at midlet.org

bw, Staffan[/quote]

Well Done Steffan,

It might be worth pointing out the controls:

# = Open the zoom box, and reduce it's size
* = increase the size of the zoom box
2 = move up
8 = move down
4 = move left
6 = move right
5 = redraw the zoom box area.

After you've zoomed in a few times, you'll probably have to increase the number of iterations to get more detail.