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!AWApr95/Goodies/FracPaint/!FracPaint/Docs/Future
This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
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| Filename: | !AWApr95/Goodies/FracPaint/!FracPaint/Docs/Future |
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| File size: | 0580 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
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File contents
The future of FracPaint ======================= Only if a reasonable number of users decide to become a registered FracPaint user, I will continue to develop this program. The following things can be expected in future releases: - Faster computations. - Formula editor. This means that any complex formula can be entered and edited to have access to an unlimited number of formulas and images. - Control over all other parameters used by FracPaint (such as colour methods). This means the user has more control over the image generated by FracPaint. - Suspend and continue image calculation. This means that an image which will take (very) long time to complete can be calculated in parts (the computer can be turned off, and the image can be completed at another moment). - Virtual memory for very large images. This means that very large images can be generated. - Output of calculation results for all points. These results can be used by both the user, and the program. In this way, an image has only to be calculated once, to experiment with the colour method, colour range, and other parameters, which currently need a total redraw of the image. - 3-dimensional computation. A (currently 2d) image can be transformed to a 3d-image, in a number of different ways. So please register, or you have to miss al those wonderful new features. See the Register file for more details.
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This me| 00000260 61 6e 73 20 74 68 61 74 20 61 6e 20 69 6d 61 67 |ans that an imag| 00000270 65 20 77 68 69 63 68 0a 20 20 77 69 6c 6c 20 74 |e which. will t| 00000280 61 6b 65 20 28 76 65 72 79 29 20 6c 6f 6e 67 20 |ake (very) long | 00000290 74 69 6d 65 20 74 6f 20 63 6f 6d 70 6c 65 74 65 |time to complete| 000002a0 20 63 61 6e 20 62 65 20 63 61 6c 63 75 6c 61 74 | can be calculat| 000002b0 65 64 20 69 6e 20 70 61 72 74 73 20 28 74 68 65 |ed in parts (the| 000002c0 0a 20 20 63 6f 6d 70 75 74 65 72 20 63 61 6e 20 |. computer can | 000002d0 62 65 20 74 75 72 6e 65 64 20 6f 66 66 2c 20 61 |be turned off, a| 000002e0 6e 64 20 74 68 65 20 69 6d 61 67 65 20 63 61 6e |nd the image can| 000002f0 20 62 65 20 63 6f 6d 70 6c 65 74 65 64 20 61 74 | be completed at| 00000300 20 61 6e 6f 74 68 65 72 0a 20 20 6d 6f 6d 65 6e | another. momen| 00000310 74 29 2e 0a 2d 20 56 69 72 74 75 61 6c 20 6d 65 |t)..- Virtual me| 00000320 6d 6f 72 79 20 66 6f 72 20 76 65 72 79 20 6c 61 |mory for very la| 00000330 72 67 65 20 69 6d 61 67 65 73 2e 20 54 68 69 73 |rge images. 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A (currently| 000004c0 20 32 64 29 20 69 6d 61 67 65 20 63 61 6e 20 62 | 2d) image can b| 000004d0 65 20 74 72 61 6e 73 66 6f 72 6d 65 64 0a 20 20 |e transformed. | 000004e0 74 6f 20 61 20 33 64 2d 69 6d 61 67 65 2c 20 69 |to a 3d-image, i| 000004f0 6e 20 61 20 6e 75 6d 62 65 72 20 6f 66 20 64 69 |n a number of di| 00000500 66 66 65 72 65 6e 74 20 77 61 79 73 2e 0a 0a 53 |fferent ways...S| 00000510 6f 20 70 6c 65 61 73 65 20 72 65 67 69 73 74 65 |o please registe| 00000520 72 2c 20 6f 72 20 79 6f 75 20 68 61 76 65 20 74 |r, or you have t| 00000530 6f 20 6d 69 73 73 20 61 6c 20 74 68 6f 73 65 20 |o miss al those | 00000540 77 6f 6e 64 65 72 66 75 6c 20 6e 65 77 20 66 65 |wonderful new fe| 00000550 61 74 75 72 65 73 2e 0a 53 65 65 20 74 68 65 20 |atures..See the | 00000560 52 65 67 69 73 74 65 72 20 66 69 6c 65 20 66 6f |Register file fo| 00000570 72 20 6d 6f 72 65 20 64 65 74 61 69 6c 73 2e 0a |r more details..| 00000580
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