Hiram Berry wrote:
Doug Stewart <Dastew@sympatico.ca> wrote:
<snip> Back in th 1980s I wrote a program that drew some very nice pictures similar to these ideas. you need: starting x and y ending x and y number of points in between number of iterations at each point. I also had the colour changing for each iteration at the point. If someone would add this to fractint I am sure that it would be a hit.
If you choose the line properly you get very stunning pictures.
Right you are, Doug. Take a look at the image generated from the included FRM and PAR. These simply draw a pentacle through the main cardioid of the M-set with corners at the 0,1/5,etc. bud tangencies, and then render the points using the passes=o. I didn't have any idea that a "knot" of such complexity could result from such a simple shape! Do you remember the settings or general algorithm you used in your program? I am very interested in these slices of the M-set orbit image object, and if you would share your experience with these I'm sure others would appreciate it as well.
---Hiram
I got my old pascal program running and produced a couple of pictures http://dougs.homeip.net/p1.bmp http://dougs.homeip.net/p2.bmp These are not the best but they do show what i was seeing back in the 80's. I think I only had 16 colors back then in the VGA mode I was using. I am running XT with a Virtual PC dos partition. I have fractint running in this virtual dos 6.22 and I was able to run my old program, that accessed the video card directly.