Slope Enhanced and Slope with Shapes
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Nada wrote: "Ron, I understand that Slope with Shapes can be accessed in different ways, but I still don't see 'Slope with Shapes' in Demo 6. I only see 'Mandelbrot' in the slot for the fractal formula. I do see 'Slope with Shapes' in your second demo, of course. Rule 1 says: Use Slope with Shapes as the fractal formula. Any fractal formula plug-in within Slope with Shapes can be used. What does the second sentence mean? Can we switch from Mandelbrot to Julia and change the basic shape of the challenge this time? I am confused unfortunately."
UF5 does create its complications.
Demo6 uses uses the Slope Enhanced ucl in reb5.ucl. Slope Enhanced calls Slope with Shapes internally as I explained in my previous email, which is why Demo6 and Demo6_AltrnateLoad create the same image. If you paste the demo6 upr from my website into UF (don't make any changes!) you should
1. Get the same image as is on the web site.
2. The fractal formula should be Mandelbrot
On the formula tab you should see at the very top: Slope Enhanced, along with the browse button.
Just below the first horizontal line you should see: fractal formula: Mandebrot and a browse button
If you can receive files I can send you a jpg of the Formula tab for the top layer as it should look when you load the upr.
"Rule 1 says: Use Slope with Shapes as the fractal formula. Any fractal formula plug-in within Slope with Shapes can be used. What does the second sentence mean? Can we switch from Mandelbrot to Julia and change the basic shape of the challenge this time? I am confused unfortunately."
The default formula for Slope with Shapes (and of course also for Slope Enhanced) is Julia. That is a formula plug-in, and ANY formula can be plugged into that slot to use with Slope with Shapes (and Slope Enhanced)
Slope with Shapes and Slope Enhanced ARE the same formula. The only difference is how you access them. With Slope Enhanced, Slope with Shapes is called internally so the first plugin you see will be the fractal formula (default Julia, any other in any other library can be used). The other method of access is illustrated in Demo6_AlternateLoad. In this case the starting Point is Generic Formula, which has a default fractal formula slot of Mandelbrot. That is a plug-in which is replaced with Slope with Shapes. After the replacement you will see another fractal formula slot, indented from Slope with Shapes. That is also a plug-in, and is the formula on which the slope calculations are done. The default is Julia, which can be replace with any fractal formula from any library. For example, you could replace it with Many Celtic Jula which is in mt.ulb.
Ron Barnett
