Couldn't stop tinkering

I couldn't stop tinkering with the root basin program.

New features:
All mouse control: no keyboard means no illegal input to crash program.
Reset coordinates button: returns bounds of image to initial values
Save image: save the basin image as a JPEG.

screen cap of program







saved images












I may do the same for the Mandelbrot program sometime. I've been in hardcore geek mode the past few days. I even started to re-read "The Fractal Geometry of Nature" by Benoit Mandelbrot. Yes, I own a copy. I've had it since high school.

I told you, I'm a geek.

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Perfected

I've perfected both the Root Basin and Mandelbrot programs to my satisfaction.

I got rid of the black specks completely in the Root Basin Program.

I added a feature to both that lets you select the zoom area with the mouse.

They're pretty cool now.

Later,

I found the problem

The black specks showed up because I was too precise in my routine to determine which color the pixel should be.

I am not sure what caused the overflow error, but I can avoid it by offsetting 0+j0 from the exact center of the image.

Check these out:




















Oh yeah, I solved the slowness problem, too.

Those black specks are actually kind of cool. I may put them back in.

Later,

Ooh, pretty...

Here's an enlargement ot the corner I posted yesterday.

You can really see the fractal nature of the bounadry between basins.


















I still don't know why I'm getting those black specks.

Later,

Programming

I've been trying to rewrite my old root basin program in Borland C++ Builder 6.

Right now it sort-of works. It's slow as hell, I get floating point overflow errors, and for some reason some points don't compute right (the black specks in the image). I'll keep working on it off and on.
Here's what I managed to get so far: (it would take days for the entire image to draw, so this is just one corner)

















Here's a sort of extrapolated image:

















I got frustrated and wrote a Mandelbrot program instead. It was easy. Here's the result:












I once wrote a Mandelbrot program for my HP-20S graphing calculator, because I was bored in class. It isn't that I'm all that good, it's just that a Mandelbrot program is that easy.

Later,