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GARDEN.RLE, a fractal for Windows wallpaper.
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GARDEN.RLE is a 64-color 399x240-pixel compressed (RLE8) bitmap of a partic-
ularly beautiful Julia set I found by iterating the usual complex quadratic

  z = z^2 + c

1000 times for the complex value c = -0.7433944040+0.70420847228i  over all z
values in the square complex domain with corners at d+di and -d-di, where 
d = 1.5411471.

The initial 400x400 image was cropped to 399x240 for tiling.  The palette used
to code the number of iterations to escape is a 56-step rainbow wash with the
first 70 iterations all assigned to the first (dark red) step.  The other 930
iterations are spread evenly over the remaining 55 palette steps to violet and
finally to white.

For a nice fractal windows wallpaper on a 256-color 800x600 display, try tiling
GARDEN.RLE with these lines in the [Desktop] section of WIN.INI:

  Wallpaper=garden.rle
  TileWallpaper=1
  WallpaperOriginX=0
  WallpaperOriginY=-60
  
Set WallpaperOriginY to 0 for a 640x480 display and to -216 for 1024x768 mode.

I created the original bitmap with a general purpose iterated function viewer
I wrote in Visual Basic 3.0, then used WinGIF to crop and compress it into its
present form.  When the bugs are out, I plan to upload the executable file and
source code for the viewer to DL5 of the MSBASIC forum under the keyword
"VISCHAOS".  Although I'm currently up to my ears in bugs, I couldn't resist
sharing this striking little gem now.

Enjoy.


Jeremy McCreary
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