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The Mand2000 CD-ROM comes with a variety of different fractal
pictures, all precalculated. In an effort to suit all tastes, each
pictures is calculated in a variety of different resolutions. Each
different resolution drawer contains a complete set of pictures. The
images can be viewed, in all their glory, in HAM mode or in 256 colour
mode.
Each picture is stored as a standard IFF ILBM, and can therefore be
loaded by DPaint, Brilliance, ADPro, or any other program that can read IFF
images.
Each picture file also contains location information, so that you
can load these pictures into Mand2000 (just double click on the picture's
icon to run Mand2000 and load it in) and continue exploring from that
location. Also saved with each picture is the iteration data - the actual
raw fractal data used to colour the pictures. This means that you can
change the palette, the number of colours, the number of iterations, even
the rendering mode, and the pictures will redraw almost instantaneously,
without having to recalculate. However, once you change the resolution or
start exploring, a recalc will be necessary.
The one exception to all this is the FrameStore images. These are
stored, oddly enough, as Toaster FrameStores, for use with the NewTek Video
Toaster. As such, they don't have any location or iteration information in
them.
To make this CD-ROM more useful to those Amiga owners who also use
IBM PC compatible computers, the 320 by 240 and 640 by 480 images have had
their names shortened to the dreaded 8.3 file format - all upper case. For
those of you who don't use IBM PC compatible computers, let this be a
reminder of the advantages the Amiga has enjoyed over the last ten years.
Most of the Mand2000 pictures were created with 256 colour palettes
in mind, which means that they are best displayed in a 256 colour mode.
For those whose Amigas can't display 256 colours at a time, we have
rendered out NTSCHAM and PALHAM versions of these images, to allow you to
appreciate these pictures in there full glory.
Some of the pictures were created with a greater than 256 colour
palette. These pictures are in the 24Bit directory, in additional
subdirectories. Read the ReadMe there for information on these pictures.
The ARexx script calcsequence.mnd2 was used to calculate all of
these pictures in all these resolutions automatically.