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fractint-digest       Tuesday, December 23 1997       Volume 01 : Number 041




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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:00:09 -0500
From: davides <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Video Cards

At 05:27 PM 9/24/97 +0000, you wrote:

[ Much snippage in here, remnants of this piece in the hope that someone
can offer some advice:]

( Date:          Tue, 23 Sep 1997 13:44:26 -0400
  - I've been talking to Number Nine tech support ...

  ...For the record, when we wanted to use the Number Nine GXE
 card with Windows 95, Number Nine said they had no plans to write proper
 drivers for it, that they were no longer supporting the card...

 This experience really soured us on Number Nine...

...  - The Imagine 128 also doesn't support anything higher than DirectX 1.0
  - and I just bought a game with DirectX5 on it.  So I am definitely
  - looking into upgrading my system now.  I am hearing good things about
  - the Millenium II from this list and the Diamond FireGL from some other
  - friends.  !

 ...I just recently downloaded Fractint 19.6 and was very disappointed to
find out that none of the Super VESA modes worked with my card. ...

...I recently downloaded the DirectX 5.0 package from Mickysoft and it
works fine...

It is an outrage that Number Nine will not support their perfectly
good (slighty old) products.  That really torks me off.  I mean, my
card is only 1 yr 8 months old (purchase date) and it is rendered
obsolete...

This is the card that I have.
Number Nine Product Name:  Imagine 128 Pro...

- -Mike Engelby

Ok, the above is for background - in a sense. This particular computer that
I am currently using is equipped with a Pentium 200MHZ/MMX 6gig hd/48MEGs
RAM, running Win95. I have been having a bit of trouble with this one since
obtaining it: when initiating Eudora Pro, this thing will reboot about 75%
of the time. In some applications which are video intensive the image
conatins randomized black rectangles wiping out that portion of the image
each rectangle being about 1/2" x 1 1/4"

It has been suggested that there may be a memory configuration problem. On
seeing the above message in its entirity when it was posted it occurred to
me that the video card may be causing these problems: I have a #9GXE64
video card currently installed - which is the linkage to the above message.

Question(s):
1.Could the video card be causing these problems?
2.Any recommendations for a video card replacement?

Secondarily: Not long ago I posted a fractal to a.b.p.f titled "Embossed" -
this prior to Paul Carlson's nicely done embossed fractals. The reason I
named it such was that it was the result of a lot of zooming in and was the
final product. The file size was a bit over 1 Meg in size (I had mentioned
this prior to posting it - even inquired concerning that large of a file)
Recently I inserted that fractal into Paint Shop Pro, tinkered with it, did
an "undo" reverting to original image, (I think) and saved it to the
desktop giving me two of these fractals - same image. Except the new one,
_no_ difference in dimensions (1024 x 728 x 256) or appearance that I could
discern had a file size of ~ 300k which obviously was a bit more reasonable.

Question: wha????? Could someone give an explanation for the above? Is
there any possibility, however remote, that the video card could have
played a role in that?

TIA - and please direct flames for the above to the radio station of your
choice...















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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 12:10:21 -0700
From: Rich Thomson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Autozooming, was: M-set field lines?

In article <[e-mail]> ,
    Jason Hine <[e-mail]>  writes:
> Rich writes:
> >Yep, that's the idea... to wander up between some fractal tips of M,
> >while never quite walking directly onto them.... they just scroll by
> >on the margins of the image.  Of course, this is all arbitrary... there
> >is no reason the image has to be centered on the "valley", you could
> >just center the image on one of the adjoining tips.
>
> I'm sorry if I missed the earlier part of this thread... do you intend to
> make a sort of 3-D walk-through, or a movie at least?  I'm toying with
> that notion myself...

At this point I'm just tossing the idea around in my head.  Maybe I'll
hack the autozoom algorithm as a replacement for XaoS' autopilot.  Not
really sure yet :).   My problem has always been that I have too many
ideas and not enough time to implement them properly...

> Right... what I'm looking for is a way to recognize which valley might
> lead to a novel 'scenery'.

I haven't thought of anything that would do this well for M.  My only
ideas for how to make a program that creates 'novel scenery' is similar
to the evolver code that will be in the next release of fractint.
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Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 10:08:58 -0800
From: "Jay Hill"<[e-mail]>
Subject: "Embossed" images was Re: (fractint) Video Cards

David E. Shanholtzer and Paul Carlson have been writing about one or more
"Embossed" images that were posted to  a.b.p.f.  Although I did see
references
to these there, the images never showed up on my server. I did not see them
 in
the archive sites.  Is there any web page showing these images? Could
someone
post the exact URL?

Thanks.

Jay



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