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Introducing ... uFract

One of the first programs I ever wrote in C was a Mandlebrot generator

It started of pretty poor to be honest, it could only render a 320x200 fractal in 256 colors and it took about a week with a dwell of about 25 :)

(the dwell is the amount of times the program loops per pixel before deciding that that calculation can't be solved and is infinite - ie the black bit in the middle of a fractal. You get fantastic results by setting the dwell to something like 5000)

More recently (2 years ago I guess) it became the first program I wrote in C# - tbh It's shocking programmatically - but it works and I managed to add neat features like Zooming, Julia generation and drawing effects. I'll talk more about this big program later - its another project altogether ...

But now, I've finally rewritten it for the Smartphone in C# o'course :)

It doesn't do palette changing yet - but it will very shortly, and I haven't quite figured out the zooming thing- well technically its exactly the same method, but its very very slow.

Here are a couple of screenies ...

I realise that I should be showing you the screenshots of it running on my C500 but I haven't got my camera to hand.

 

posted on Wednesday, November 10, 2004 5:44 PM by russc





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