What is MANDELZOOM Pre-Release?

This is a little program I wrote while I was taking a break
from the work on the Orion Space Flight Simulator. It is a
"MANDELZOOM" program inspired by the Computer Recreations column
in the Scientific American of this past August. The program
draws pictures of a "fractal" called the "Mandelbrot set";
you should read the article if you want to find out what the
Mandelbrot Set is.

The program is fairly simple to use - it has boxes with
icons in them for all the major functions.
The four arrow buttons are for scrolling. The two large
buttons beneath the arrows are "zoom in" and "zoom out". (by a
factor of 2 in each case) The four small buttons below the zoom
buttons select the size of pixels to use - large pixels make the
drawing process faster but give you less resolution. The four
buttons below the resolution buttons have the numbers "100",
"250", "500", and "1000" written on them - these buttons set the
cutoff point at which the algorithm stops iterating Z'=Z^2+C
(see the article for explanation.) The five unlabeled buttons on
the right choose one of five "shading tables" to use when drawing
the pictures.

Note that while the program is drawing it displays a wristwatch
cursor. However, you can click on another control at any time and
the program will stop drawing and execute the new command.
Hope you like it...
Robert P. Munafo

Download MANDELZOOM Pre-Release for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 1.0 up to Mac OS 6.0

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac