Download/HomepageIf you are a fan of the fractal images of the Mandelbrot Set you’ll
appreciate this screen saver. The screen saver displays the classic high level image then
with successive displays zooms "down" into the image. As deeper and deeper
levels are revealed, the user can get lost in the patterns that are made. It’s pure
and simple fun.
MeanderBot is easy to install. There are only two files "MEANDER.SCR" and
"MEANDER.TXT" in the zip file. Copy MEANDER.SCR to your \windows directory and
choose it as your Screen Saver from the "Display" Control Panel. Under the
settings the user can configure three basic options : Color Palette Smoothness, Max
Iterations, and Zoom Factor. Although I do not fully understand the mathematics of these
options, adjusting them yielded some interesting results. For example, increasing the
value of Max Iterations caused the resolution of the image to be finer, but each
successive image took 5 minutes or more to appear on my Pentium (equivalent 166 mhz)
machine.
When the screen saver is stopped a registration reminder displays and you must click the
OK box before the screen saver actually terminates and allows the user to return to his or
her work. All my experimenting, it should be noted, was done under Screen Saver preview
mode. Be warned that when set up as the active screen saver, the registration reminder
screen displays immediately without showing any of the images.
To Purchase: Send the author the $12 registration fee at the address in the
documentation or purchase by credit card at the web sites:
http://www.ruralnet.net/~kelley/ or http://www.swregnet.com/1017p.htm. Within 24 hours of
receipt of the fee, the author advertises that he will e-mail you a registration code.
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