[R] Animation of Mandelbrot Set

[Gabor Grothendieck]

This probably has nothing to do with your software but on my Windows
XP system I just get a static image on Internet Explorer with the
animated GIF but with Firefox and the same GIF the animation comes
out as expected.


On 10/4/05, Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W. <JAROSLAW.W.TUSZYNSKI at saic.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was playing with Mandelbrot sets and come up with the following code, I
> thought I would share:
>
> library(fields)  # for tim.colors
> library(caTools) # for write.gif
> m = 400          # grid size
> C = complex( real=rep(seq(-1.8,0.6, length.out=m), each=m ),
>             imag=rep(seq(-1.2,1.2, length.out=m),      m ) )
> C = matrix(C,m,m)
> Z = 0
> X = array(0, c(m,m,20))
> for (k in 1:20) {
>  Z = Z^2+C
>  X[,,k] = exp(-abs(Z))
> }
> image(X[,,k], col=tim.colors(256)) # show final image in R
> write.gif(X, "Mandelbrot.gif", col=tim.colors(256), delay=100)
> # drop "Mandelbrot.gif" file from current directory on any web brouser to
> see the animation
>
>  Jarek
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