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>Has anyone gotten the fern postscript program to run?  It was
>published in Byte magazine a few months ago but seems to have
>one or more bugs in it.  I would like a copy of it if it has
>been fixed.  I recall that someone else posted a question
>similar to this shortly after the issue was on the newsstand,
>so you may want to post it here.

% Title: Fractal fern

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% This routine create a fractal fern.
% Additional details appear in Don Lancaster's LaserWriter Secrets text.

% Approximate NTX run time: Varies depending on numdot length.
% ....................................


/problistcreate {mark /counter 0 def probabilities {128 mul round cvi
{transforms counter get} repeat /counter counter 1 add def} forall
counttomark 128 sub neg dup 0 gt {[1 0 0 1 0 0] repeat} {pop} ifelse]
/problist exch def} bind def

/doit {problistcreate 1 1 20 {problist rand -24 bitshift get transform 2 copy
moveto 0.001 10 rlineto} repeat newpath numdots {problist rand -24 bitshift
get transform 2 copy moveto 0.001 0 rlineto stroke} repeat} bind def

%     ///   demo - remove before use   ///

/numdots 6000 def  % increase for denser image; descrease to print faster

/transforms   [
		[0 0 0 .16 0 0]
		[.2 .23 -.26 .22 0 1.6]
		[-.15 .26 .28 .24 0 .44]
		[.85 -.04 .04 .85 0 1.6]

	      ] def

/probabilities [.01 .07 .07 .85] def

1 setlinecap
0 setlinewidth
200 300 translate
30 dup scale

doit

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