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<H1>Distributed Mandelbrot program</H1>

<P>Originally written i C++/rpc/lwp/interviews by Klas Eriksson.(1200 lines)
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Rewritten in Erlang by Klas Eriksson and Martin Bj&ouml;rklund. </P>

<P><A HREF="http://www.bush.edu/~nick/nick.html">What is the Mandelbrot
function?</A> </P>

<H2>A small manual</H2>

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<LI>Try starting erlang in distributed mode. The mandel program will use<BR>
all connected nodes for mandel calculations!</LI>

<LI>Resizing the window will restart the calculation.</LI>

<LI>Press left mouse button to zoom.</LI>
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<P><TT>mandel:start(list of Option)</TT> can be used to give the program
different options.</P>

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Available options are:</P>

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<LI>{xmax,float()}</LI>

<LI>{ymax,float()}</LI>

<LI>{range,float()}|</LI>

<LI>{maxiter,integer()}</LI>

<LI>{window,integer()}</LI>

<LI>{zoomstep,float()}</LI>

<LI>{hosts,(list of string())|all_found_nodes}</LI>
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