Re: Ascii Mandelbrot program (examples included!!)

In article <61g7ra$78h$1...@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> nos...@nospam.nospam (Curd Reinert) writes:
>In article <ken...@nospam.com.tw>,
>        ken...@NOSPAM.com.tw (Nathan Kennedy) writes:
>[...]
>>But I thought it would be nice to have ascii fractals, so I went and modified 
>>it to calculate 6 pixels per character and use the anti-aliasing algorithm 
>>described in an old ascii art FAQ to display them.  Theoretically, it has 150% 
>>better resolution, and it doesn't look bad.  Of course, without colors it 
>>doesn't have the level sets, and filaments of course disappear.
>[...]

> I found a three liner in C producing a Mandelbrot set. However, it was
>never supposed to do any kind of ascii-art, but to show how obscure
>C code can be. Here it is:

>float o=0.075,h=1.5,T,r,O,l,I;int _,L=80,s=3200;main(){for(;s%L||
>(h-=o,T= -2),s;4 -(r=O*O)<(l=I*I)|++ _==L&&write(1,(--s%L?_<L?--_
>%6:6:7)+"World! \n",1)&&(O=I=l=_=r=0,T+=o /2))O=I*2*O+h,I=l+T-r;}

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Wow.... I'm am really impressed.  I had envisioned that the Mandelbrot set 
could be encoded in that little space, but I hadn't expected that kind of 
output...  It doesn't do any anti-aliasing, but it does the level sets which 
makes it look really impressive...  What can I say?

Anyhow, version 1.2b of ANSIMAN should now be available by http at 
http://www.inside.com.tw/~kennedy/ansiman.zip and is about 33 K, if anyone 
wants it now.  The official author's homepage of ANSIMAN (with version 1.2) is 
at http://www.cba.ua.edu/~jrobert1/ansiman/

Coding till I post again,

Nathan Kennedy

e-mail: kennedy AT inside DOT com DOT tw
spambot bait: postmaster@127.0.0.1

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