A Swing component that computes and displays a fractal image known as a 'Julia set' : JComponent « Swing « Java Tutorial






/*
 * Copyright (c) 2004 David Flanagan.  All rights reserved.
 * This code is from the book Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3nd Edition.
 * It is provided AS-IS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY either expressed or implied.
 * You may study, use, and modify it for any non-commercial purpose,
 * including teaching and use in open-source projects.
 * You may distribute it non-commercially as long as you retain this notice.
 * For a commercial use license, or to purchase the book, 
 * please visit http://www.davidflanagan.com/javaexamples3.
 */
//package je3.print;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Frame;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.JobAttributes;
import java.awt.PageAttributes;
import java.awt.PrintJob;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;

import javax.swing.JComponent;

/**
 * This class is a Swing component that computes and displays a fractal image
 * known as a "Julia set". The print() method demonstrates printing with the
 * Java 1.1 printing API, and is the main point of the example. The code that
 * computes the Julia set uses complex numbers, and you don't need to understand
 * it.
 */
public class JuliaSet1 extends JComponent {
  // These constants are hard-coded for simplicity
  double x1 = -1.5, y1 = -1.5, x2 = 1.5, y2 = 1.5; // Region of complex plane

  int width = 400, height = 400; // Mapped to these pixels

  double cx, cy; // This complex constant defines the set we display

  BufferedImage image; // The image we compute

  // We compute values between 0 and 63 for each point in the complex plane.
  // This array holds the color values for each of those values.
  static int[] colors;
  static { // Static initializer for the colors[] array.
    colors = new int[64];
    for (int i = 0; i < colors.length; i++) {
      colors[63 - i] = (i * 4 << 16) + (i * 4 << 8) + i * 4; // grayscale
      // (i*4) ^ ((i * 3)<<6) ^ ((i * 7)<<13); // crazy technicolor
    }
  }

  // No-arg constructor with default values for cx, cy.
  public JuliaSet1() {
    this(-1, 0);
  }

  // This constructor specifies the {cx,cy} constant.
  // For simplicity, the other constants remain hardcoded.
  public JuliaSet1(double cx, double cy) {
    this.cx = cx;
    this.cy = cy;
    setPreferredSize(new Dimension(width, height));
    computeImage();
  }

  // This method computes a color value for each pixel of the image
  void computeImage() {
    // Create the image
    image = new BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);

    // Now loop through the pixels
    int i, j;
    double x, y;
    double dx = (x2 - x1) / width;
    double dy = (y2 - y1) / height;
    for (j = 0, y = y1; j < height; j++, y += dy) {
      for (i = 0, x = x1; i < width; i++, x += dx) {
        // For each pixel, call testPoint() to determine a value.
        // Then map that value to a color and set it in the image.
        // If testPoint() returns 0, the point is part of the Julia set
        // and is displayed in black. If it returns 63, the point is
        // displayed in white. Values in-between are displayed in
        // varying shades of gray.
        image.setRGB(i, j, colors[testPoint(x, y)]);
      }
    }
  }

  // This is the key method for computing Julia sets. For each point z
  // in the complex plane, we repeatedly compute z = z*z + c using complex
  // arithmetic. We stop iterating when the magnitude of z exceeds 2 or
  // after 64 iterations. We return the number of iterations-1.
  public int testPoint(double zx, double zy) {
    for (int i = 0; i < colors.length; i++) {
      // Compute z = z*z + c;
      double newx = zx * zx - zy * zy + cx;
      double newy = 2 * zx * zy + cy;
      zx = newx;
      zy = newy;
      // Check magnitude of z and return iteration number
      if (zx * zx + zy * zy > 4)
        return i;
    }
    return colors.length - 1;
  }

  // This method overrides JComponent to display the julia set.
  // Just scale the image to fit and draw it.
  public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
    g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight(), this);
  }

  // This method demonstrates the Java 1.1 java.awt.PrintJob printing API.
  // It also demonstrates the JobAttributes and PageAttributes classes
  // added in Java 1.3. Display the Julia set with ShowBean and use
  // the Command menu to invoke this print command.
  public void print() {
    // Create some attributes objects. This is Java 1.3 stuff.
    // In Java 1.1, we'd use a java.util.Preferences object instead.
    JobAttributes jattrs = new JobAttributes();
    PageAttributes pattrs = new PageAttributes();

    // Set some example attributes: monochrome, landscape mode
    pattrs.setColor(PageAttributes.ColorType.MONOCHROME);
    pattrs.setOrientationRequested(PageAttributes.OrientationRequestedType.LANDSCAPE);
    // Print to file by default
    jattrs.setDestination(JobAttributes.DestinationType.FILE);
    jattrs.setFileName("juliaset.ps");

    // Look up the Frame that holds this component
    Component frame = this;
    while (!(frame instanceof Frame))
      frame = frame.getParent();

    // Get a PrintJob object to print the Julia set with.
    // The getPrintJob() method displays a print dialog and allows the user
    // to override and modify the default JobAttributes and PageAttributes
    Toolkit toolkit = this.getToolkit();
    PrintJob job = toolkit.getPrintJob((Frame) frame, "JuliaSet1", jattrs, pattrs);

    // We get a null PrintJob if the user clicked cancel
    if (job == null)
      return;

    // Get a Graphics object from the PrintJob.
    // We print simply by drawing to this Graphics object.
    Graphics g = job.getGraphics();

    // Center the image on the page
    Dimension pagesize = job.getPageDimension(); // how big is page?
    Dimension panesize = this.getSize(); // how big is image?
    g.translate((pagesize.width - panesize.width) / 2, // center it
        (pagesize.height - panesize.height) / 2);

    // Draw a box around the Julia Set and label it
    g.drawRect(-1, -1, panesize.width + 2, panesize.height + 2);
    g.drawString("Julia Set for c={" + cx + "," + cy + "}", 0, -15);

    // Set a clipping region
    g.setClip(0, 0, panesize.width, panesize.height);

    // Now print the component by calling its paint method
    this.paint(g);

    // Finally tell the printer we're done with the page.
    // No output will be generated if we don't call dispose() here.
    g.dispose();
  }
}








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