Mandelplot Printer Art

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Mandelplot Printer Art

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MANDELPLOT: MATHEMATICAL PRINTER ART

by Fred Nachbaur

NOTE: This program requires 64K RAM!

You can use 16K if you lower the picture array's dimensions, as mentioned in the text file.

Enjoy;

Greg

Edit: Corrected OCR error added a couple more printouts
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Re: Mandelplot Printer Art

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Hi Greg,

Who many time to draw this picture? About 3 hours ?
:oops:

1 hour to reach $7000... and the real clock set to x5 !
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I rendered the Mandelbrot with No$ZX which is very fast, only about 1/2 hour or so...but the printer output for No$ZX is all messed up, always has been and there's no way to get the author to fix it! I therefore saved the program with the rendered data and LOADed it into VB81 for printing. VB81 prints the results nicely but for some unknown reason freezes up at random points in the printing process, and I can't figure out why. I therefore edited LINE 6005 to print one panel at a time until completed. Kind of tedious in that you just can't start printing all six panels and walk away. The printing took way longer than the rendering.

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Greg
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How about SZ81. It has a great printing routine.
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Hi Greg,
I don't know if the BASIC line 310 freeze the program...
plot.JPG
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Well it can't help. OCR error I missed. Maybe I'll try another run and see what happens.
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Hi Greg,
This code run properly, but to speed up the code, Fred Nachbaur use one extra lines to set a variable :

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 230   LET SZ=ZR*ZR+ZI*ZI
 240   IF SZ>4 THEN GOTO 270


SZ is used only one time!

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 240   IF ZR*ZR+ZI*ZI>4 THEN GOTO 270
Take only one line and speedup the process...
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XavSnap wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:08 am Hi Greg,
This code run properly, but to speed up the code, Fred Nachbaur use one extra lines to set a variable :

Code: Select all

 230   LET SZ=ZR*ZR+ZI*ZI
 240   IF SZ>4 THEN GOTO 270


SZ is used only one time!

Code: Select all

 240   IF ZR*ZR+ZI*ZI>4 THEN GOTO 270
Take only one line and speedup the process...
EDIT
VB81 prints the results nicely but for some unknown reason freezes up at random points in the printing process, and I can't figure out why.
On the array calculation too. The VB debugger seen to point a system (Z80 emulator) process... but can't target it!
Is there a PCreg/DblReg limit on a A$(x,x)= in the ROM ? I had to check it... A$(50,192) seem to hang the computer...
Is it the same ROM on NoCash ? EO seem to hang to on this line...
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Re: Mandelplot Printer Art

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I don't know what ROM No$ZX uses. It may not matter as No$ZX is more of a ZX81 simulator rather than an emulator, it doesn't use the Sinclair video drivers for example.

I did get the program to run and printout on sx81 with no problems.

Greg
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