mandelRev - in memory of Bill Marriott

[Jerry Daniels]

Thank you, Peter. Well done. The app, the sentiment. All good.

On Jan 18, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote:

> You can download the updated mandelRev stack at:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig/mandelRev.dmg
> or
> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig/mandelRev.rev.zip
>
> From the help text:
>
> This stack is a tribute to the memory of Bill Marriott — one of his  
> last little side projects was the initial Mandelbrot Explorer stack,  
> which he offered to the RunRev mailing list as an example of the  
> power of the Revolution environment. Bill worked out the calculation  
> handlers after teaching himself the basic math of complex numbers in  
> a few days, and put together a stack that created black-and-white  
> images.
>
> With the view that a fitting tribute to Bill's memory would be a Rev  
> project, I expanded his stack to create color images, moved the  
> controls into a palette, and stored the calculated dwell values in a  
> customprop so that colorization could be adjusted without  
> recalculation, which speeds things up considerably especially for  
> high iteration parameters. The colorization scheme is mine but many  
> other algorithms are possible.
>
> Bill's contributions to RunRev will long be with us. His brief foray  
> into fractals was a tiny sideline, but when you use this stack you  
> can remember him.
>
> -- Peter
>
> Peter M. Brigham
> pmbrig at gmail.com
> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
>
>
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