Name: ______________________________ ATM - M-Set Blast-Off Computer Labs

• Double click on Macintosh HD
• Open up Documents
• Open up MacFrac
• Click on View, and set to As List

This is where you will find all of the programs for the next two weeks...

Keep in mind when I tell you to ZOOM, that sometimes people tend to just zoom in between the two main bulbs - there is so much happening in other places that you’ve just go to explore in those areas, like:
- in between large bulbs
- the disappearing parts on the far left
- the top of the main bulb
- all up and down the sides of the main bulb
- the indent in the main bulb on the right side
- etc.

1. Open the Fractal Domains2.0b5 folder
a) Double click on the FractalDomains icon
b) Go to Fractal, select Parameters and set the Area to 800 x 600
c) Zoom twice by clicking anywhere
d) Notice the numbers at the bar at the top of the screen - “Dwells” represents the number of iterations to get a magnitude greater than 2
e) Move your cursor around to see the different iterations
f) Zoom a bunch more times until things appear to be getting blobby and black
g) Now go to Fractal, parameters, Dwells, and set Dwells = 700 and see how much more detail is revealed.
h) Zoom more. If you seem to lose detail again, raise the Dwells limit
i) Hit apple-R to see different color possibilities. Keep going until you find one you like
j) To start over, hit Apple-N
k) Once you’ve found a nice picture, go to Fractal, Parameters, Orbit, and click on the Orbit Trap box and click OK.
l) Zoom some more.

2. Open the MandelBrowser folder and then the other Mandelbrowser folder
a) Double-click on Mandelbrowser
b) Go to Fractal/ImageSize/set to 800x600
c) Drag the window out to full size using the lower right corner
d) Go to View - Show Orbits
e) Click, hold, and drag around black areas, exploring edges and borders between bulbs and inside smaller bulbs - hold for a moment to see orbit play out - if you let go, go back to view again to show orbits
f) To Zoom, use “apple-.” (hold the apple key and hit the period key) (it just zooms into the middle of the image)
g) You can scroll across or up and down in the image using the arrow keys - try it: Hit apple-N for a new fractal if you need it and ZOOM in a couple of times, then use arrow keys to look all around and find interesting areas to zoom in on
h) If the image gets blobby, you should hit apple-I and up the number of iterations (1000?)
i) After zooming for awhile, go to Fractal - Outside Style - stalks - OK - cool, huh? zoom some more...
j) Try different Palettes with the palette menu or hit apple-K to get random palette
k) Under Fractals, there are choices of Mandelbrot, Julia, and Special - try some

l) Go back to a M-Set and go to Fractal / Perturb - and set real = .5 imag = .5
m) Now zoom on that crazy thing!

3. MandelBrainPPC -
a) Open the MandelBrain folder
b) Double click on MandelBrain PPC
c) Go to Display /number of pixels - 600x600
d) To Zoom, drag out a box with your cursor, then apple/shift/. (i.e. hold apple, hold shift, hit the period key)
e) Zoom a bit
f) Go to Colors (there is an incredible range of color possibilities!! try many of them)
g) Hit apple-T to animate colors (apple-T to stop animation)
h) Hit apple-R to reverse direction (hit apple+to step through colors and apple- to reverse)
i) Hit apple - O. Go to Documents/MacFrac/MandelBrainPPC and go to Sample Files)
choose one
j) These are great samples and most include moving colors (you cannot change the size of them). You can also Zoom in on them!!!
Try many of them

4. EasyFractal 3.11e folder- alternative view - spheres - 3D
a) Open the EasyFractal folder then EasyFractal3.11e
b) To get just the image , hit Apple W twice (answer YES to the question) to close all windows (respond NOT YET to another question) and hit Apple N
c) Set Real Width to: 600 x 600, then click EXECUTE
d) To zoom, drag a box, then use apple-B
e) Zoom in several places in the familiar M-Set and notice what is unfamiliar (The spheres! the spheres!)
f) Run into blank areas -? Go to General and up the number of iterations to 750 or more
g) Go to Palette - Load - 1024 - Fire (if this causes an error, give up on colors)
h) Now Zoom on a red area
i) Hit apple-N
j) Now find the “3D” Tab on the little window where you changed the image size - click on 3D display - zoom some more
k) You think that’s cool? That’s nothing....Try playing with Viewing Angle and Peak (on the 3D tab), by typing numbers into the boxes


5. Floating Fractals -
a) Open Floating Fractals 5.1
b) While holding the option key, drag the cursor around to see Julia sets
c) Zoom in on the M-Set and look at the Julia sets now - also watch the little brown window to track Iterations - it autoadjusts. Zoom, Julia, Zoom, Julia, mmmm....
d) Go to Fractals - MandelBrot Set -try Inward Thorns, try Outward Thorns, Zoom in on these, too
e) Try apple-1, apple-2, apple-3, apple-4, apple-5, apple-6, apple-7
zoom in on each one to discover what is hidden there


6. Fractastic
a) Open the Fractastic folder then click on the icon
b) single-click to zoom in a few times
c) Hit apple-K until you get colors you like
apple-A to animate the colors
apple -D to reverse
d) Zoom until it gets blobby - then hold down the ctrl key- go to settings /iterations/1000
e) explore some more - find an interesting place so that you can...
f) Move the mouse to the top, bottom, left, right, of the screen to explore. This will blow your mind!!!
g) Hit apple-1, 2, 3, 4, to get higher exponent M-Sets
h) hit apple-O - you can open up some great previous fractals - (under Documents/MacFrac/Fractastic/Saved Fractals)
try 70’s Funk - zoom in a couple of time, then hit apple-K, then hit apple-N
try others....if you don’t like colors try apple -K or ctrl colors and mess with it
i) you can get back to original settings by apple-Q then open up again
j) Hit ctrl-then go to fractals - Lambda - zoom in several times then pan around with cursor

7. Aros Fractals
a) click on little M-Set
b) go to Image - Full Screen
c) Zoom in a couple of times
d) If it gets blobby - go to Fractals, then change calculations
e) try colors - rainbow
f) try colors - random - notice how it brings out different features of the M-set boundaries
g) click on little fast forward button

8. MandelMovie
a) Open MandelMovie
b) try apple-1 through apple-9: selects colors
c) Iterations - set to 2000
d) Zoom until you lose patience
e) apple-M to make movie
f) save it in Documents and give it any name you want
g) set to 8 frames / second
h) wait for movie to be generated
READ: it could take several minutes (if you have a mac at home, you can do it much faster) - you can set it to lower quality to make it save faster. The deeper you zoom, the longer it will take. For a very deep zoom, use the lowest quality - the movie will still be fun, but not take 5 mins to load
i) When it’s done, open up the documents folder and double click on the name of the movie
Hit the play button
you can also drag the little triangle at the bottom to see it in reverse


9. Object Mandelbrot PPC
a) drag the Julia set window off to the side so you will be able to see it
b) hit apple-J (J is for Julia)
c) click hold, and explore around M-set and watch the julia sets change
d) apple-D (takes you back to M-Set to Zoom)
e) zoom several times until you see a lot of black
f) hit apple-M several time to increase number of iterations and see how changes
g) apple-J and look at JULIA sets now
h) apple-D
i) Hit apple-3. Now look at these new Julia sets
j) Zoom in a little and check out julia sets
k) and apple-4 apple-5 and repeat above


10. Xaos - click on folder, then Xaos3.1
a) click and hold the click down to zoom - you can move cursor while zooming
b) when get to solid black, hold right arrow key to increase iterations (seen at top)
c) hit “1” - back to Mset
d) Go to Filters - and go to “palette emulator” - which just turns it on
e) apple-P selects new colors
f) then hit “y” to cycle colors
g) hit “D” - back to original colors
h) hit “J” - turns on, then off julia sets
i) Zoom in somewhere
j) go to Filters - Pseudo 3D ...then zoom on the 3D!!!
k) You can zoom out by : ctrl - hold click
l) now go to UI, Driver, MacFullScreen and zoom in and around
m) hold ctrl to get menu at top back and UI, Driver MacWindowedDriver
n) try other filters
o) try holding shift and dragging cursor to see what happens
p) go to Fractal - Barnsley - zoom in
q) go to Calculation - rotation by mouse
r) hit A any time for autopilot!!!



Wow! You’ve gone through all of the programs and it’s not May 27th yet????

What should you do?

Go back to your favorite program(s) and begin spending an infinite amount of time exploring the infinite numbers of different escape-time fractal equations which give an infinite number of categories of fractals with an infinite number of places to zoom and a practically infinite number of color patterns and other options for drawing....

And when you’re done with that....