At 05:56 PM 2/9/2001 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Just my 2 cents' worth with respect to the screen saver
>proposals: how about the following?
>
>2) For the folks who like something that looks more
>scientific, we could have a vertical box that looks
>like a control panel. Every iteration, the bottom Y
>bits of the LL residue get printed to the bottom line
>of the panel, and the others move up. We could colorize
>the individual digits of the hex residues, or pick a
>new color for each new Residue, so things look a bit
>more dynamic. The faster the user's machine, the more
>dynamic the output.
I had been thinking that it would be interesting to map the entire savefile,
one byte per pixel, into a rectangular area centered on the screen,
updating every time a new intermediate savefile is saved. I think
default is every 30 minutes, but that can be adjusted.
Below the graphic could be displayed the iteration number and exponent.
A historical bar graph of iterations throughput per minute, scaled relative
to the maximum ever achieved on that machine, for the current runlength,
is another. It has the advantageous property that some end users might
be encouraged to maximize their throughput via the easy feedback.
Make a change, wait, check the graph.
Ken
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