Updated MandelBT Explorer

Optimized code from previous submissions. Code is written with R2010b.

Creating your on picture
Press on the Zoom button within the View panel. The view will change to a 2D picture in case it was set to 3D.
Note that the sliders in the Viewing Angle panel are now changed to 0 and 90 and the cursor has changed into a encircled +.
Press the left mouse button on any position of the Mandelbrot set and then drag the mouse to another position to the left or right.
You will note that with a slight delay a rectangle will be drawn around the select area and the program will zoom into the area.
The next step is now to press the Re-calculate button which appeared after selecting the zoom mode and the program will execute a new calculation of the Mandelbrot Set.
The picture will be automatically displayed.

Saving your picture
Press the save button on right side of the graph and the picture
coordinates and all settings saved. You can recall saved picture by
selecting them in the popupmenu called saved Mandelbrot Sets.

Changing the Resolution
This can be achieved by moving the slider in the Resolution panel on the right side of the GUI.
Sliding to the right will increase the image resolution and which goes in hand with increased running time of the calculation.
Please note that it is worth to increase the number of iterations as well to achieve the best results.
It is sometimes best work on a moderate resolution (500- 700) and do all the zooming and change of
viewing angle until happy with the result and then increase the resolution in the last step.

Mandelbrot Set Coordinates
The current coordinates are always displayed in the textboxes on the right side of the GUI.
Please note that after any zoom action all coordinates, viewing angle etc are also available in the command line interface.
mandel =[0.1872426 0.5715756 0.2568356 0.6411687 700 500 112 15 3 29 70 3]
These values correspond to the program handles: handles.lowerR
handles.higherR
handles.lowerI
handles.higherI
handles.stepsR
handles.stepsI
handles.MaxIter
handles.col,
handles.view
handles.x_view
handles.y_view
handles.light

Number of Iterations
This value determines how many times the calculation in the dummy3.m function is performed.
Increasing this number might increase the running time of the program.
It also can increase the image resolution. It is recommended to vary this parameter on
the original Mandelbrot set and see which influence this parameter has.
The effect is more pronounced when zooming deeper into the Mandelbrot Set.

Viewing Angle
There are three elements in the viewing angle panel that will allow the user to manipulate the aspect ratio off the 3D Mandelbrot set.
3D Rotate button: clicking on this button changes the appearance off the mouse curser.
Left click and move the mouse and the aspect ratio of the 3D image is going to change and the mouse
enables you view the Mandelbrot set from any angle just by moving the mouse.

The 2 sliders in the Viewing angle panel enable you to change the viewing angle of the Mandelbrot set.
In order to experiment with these sliders it is recommended to reduce the Resolution of the picture
and recalculate the current image by pressing the Re-calculate button.
As a result changes in the aspect ratio happen in real time (depending on your computer of course).

Light effects
There 4 standard Matlab light effects enabled in the mandel123 program.
Press simply on the four buttons in the Light effects panel. The default setting is Phong.

Chose colour
This program comes with the standard set of Matlab colourmaps as well as four custom colormaps.
Please select them from the Chose colour popupmenu.

Load Colourmap editor
It is possible to load the standard Matlab colour editor and change the current colormap.
Once you have changed the

Save CMAP
Press the CMAP button and the current colormap is saved. You can recall
this colormap in the Chose Colour popup menu. The program automatically
asigns a name to the colormap.