[Coco] Re: Re: [Color Computer] OS-9 Guys, How do you use your system?

[Charlie]

Sorry for the delayed reply Fred. Thanks for the info.
I'll be playing with Mandel09 this weekend for sure!

Charlie

"Frederick D Provoncha" <elderpav at juno.com> wrote in
message news:20040904.235054.1876.0.elderpav at juno.com...
>
> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 08:44:04 -0400 "Charlie"
<chazbeenhad at hotmail.com>
> writes:
> > I love Mandel09. I have no idea how to do anything, except zoom up
> > real
> > close on areas of the default picture. ;-)
> > Charlie
>
> I'm glad you like it! It's nice to get some feedback. I haven't gotten
> much yet.
>
> Have you read through the build-it tutorials? Go to the Tandy Menu (That
> little x-shaped icon to the left of the "Pictures" menu on the menu bar
> of the main screen) and select "Help". The tutorial program will start up
> and display a list of topics. Click on a topic. The help file will be
> displayed. I hope you find them useful.
>
> If you've succeeded in generating a new pic by magnifying a portion of
> the default picture, then save it to disk by going into the "pictures"
> menu and selecting "Save As...". Once it's saved, you can magnify a
> portion of that picture using the same process as you used to magnify a
> portion of the default pic. I would suggest however that you up the
> iteration count before you do that. Go into the "Params" menu and select
> "Iterations" and then replace the original value of 60 with something
> higher, like 100 or 200 for example. The reason you want to increase the
> iteration count is because the more you magnify, the lower the amount of
> detail. To keep the detail level high, you have to increase the iteration
> count. Problem is, the higher the iteration count, the longer it takes to
> generate the picture. You may have to leave the computer on overnight to
> let it draw the picture. Luckily OS-9 multi-tasks, so if there are other
> things you want to do with your computer, just open up another window and
> go to it!
>
> Also try generating a Julia picture. With the default picture loaded, go
> into the "Pictures" menu and select "Julia". Crosshairs will appear over
> the default picture. Using the mouse, select a point on the screen,
> preferably a spot close to but not in one of the black regions. Once you
> click the mouse, the program will generate a Julia picture, which you can
> then save to disk, or magnify.
>
> Let me know how it goes. Take care,
>
> Fred Provoncha
>
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