Ali's Mandelbrot viewer version 0.5 Distributed

Usage: java Fractal [n] [-zoom x0 y0 x1 y1]

	n is an optional number of colors (and iterations) to use.
	
	-zoom starts the program zoomed to the rectangle with upper-left
		corner (x0,y0) and lower-right corner (x1,y1).  If x0>=x1
		or y1>=y0 this parameter will be ignored.


Operation is simple; left-clicking zooms in by a factor of 4x and right-clicking
zooms out by a factor of 4x.  If you have a Mac with one button, you can't zoom out.

You can also click-and-drag to select a region to zoom in on.  This region must
be at least 4 pixels in area.

Colormaps are randomly generated.

The State menu allows you to print out the current image parameters, including center
coordinates, zoom factor, and image bounds.  You can start up the viewer at a specific
point by using the -zoom parameter; it takes the coordinates in the order the State menu
prints them.

The reset button resets the imageto the whole set.  The back/forward button act just
like those on a web browser; they undo an arbitrary number of moves/resets.

The viewer calculates the image via a distributed model.  No buffering is implented.
	

KNOWN BUGS:  If you zoom/reset/resize while the image is drawing, occasionally
the program will appear to draw segments of different images.  This is due
to a bug in Java where threads sometimes refuse to die when their stop()
methods are called.  The calculating thread, blithely unaware of its demise,
continues to draw, using the new paramenters.  Java refuses to allow repaint() 
to be called until the thread stops.  Since the thread is now a member of the
undead, this only happens when it finishes.  Sorry.  Complain to Sun.
Occassionally an ArrayOutOfBounds index will occur for this same reason.


COLORMAP FORMAT:  The colormap files can have between 1 and 256 lines.  Each
line contains a set of three integer values separated by spaces, with each value between
0 and 255. These indicate red, green, and blue values respectively.  The first line is the
color of the Mandelbrot set, and the nth line is the color for a point that requires n
iterations to escape.

NOTE:  All the included colormap files are from Fractint.  See the Fractint license info
for details on their allowed usage.