Hi John,
The GFA compiler is not bad at all --
(I have a slight problem under Wine , when running the kind of programs as attached -- after a while the active window darkens as if something is hanging -- I wonder, this can be fixed -- )
It's the Mandelbrot changing from z² to z³ , .... this can not be calculated with real numbers -- I used DeMoivre"s Cis function to calculate things. --- it several moments, one can see the fractal tearing (such things should be done on Riemann surfaces I think to be representable
to be honnest , oxygen does it faster -- needing around 2/3 of GFA's benchmark ...
best, Rob
(ps , Wine has some nice themes nowadays -- some looking better than the original window gadget
)
in the animation , much time is spent calculating the gradient inside the fract. -- it is of the form log(log(A)) , this takes a lot of time to calculate
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