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fractint-digest      Wednesday, December 31 1997      Volume 01 : Number 052




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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 22:18:12 EST
From: T R Moe <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Re: Periodicity=0

I have seen the parameter periodicity=0 referred to several times and can find
no way to set this in any of the fractint options screens.  Am I missing
something?  How does one set periodicity equal to zero?   Thanks for any help.

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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 19:27:28 -0800
From: "Jay Hill" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) another 24-bit coloring idea

Hi Damien,

> From: Damien M. Jones <[e-mail]>
> Jay,
>
>  - If you could explain to this forum how to specify the color of a pixel,
>  - given most any other information about the point in question, it would
>  - be a first. I have asked several times. I have some neato schemes
>  - I code in C++ for my clunky Borland C++ 3.1 with slight graphics
>  - support.
>
> If you only want to specify a color index, you can see the example FRMs
> posted here by Kerry Mitchell, Paul Carlson, and myself.  These show how to

I have looked at Paul's lately, since he has comments. Still not much help.
He uses z as a color index which is still unclear how that works.  I thought
z is a complex number which is used for periodicity checking, and in the
atan, summ, etc options.  If I use z for color index what are the rules. This
seem not to be written up in Fractint docs or frm tutor.

> write FRMs that use ordinary fractal types with new coloring techniques.
> The one I posted has over 100 formulae  Since you can do this with FRMs,

Where was this posted?  I have over 1000 posts to this list, most on a
server I can't get to at the moment. Even if I could, I need a reference.

> you get to use periodicity checking, solid guessing, or whatever.

Really, all these with color index?????  Unclear!!

> Of course, this only gets you as far as specifying the color index; you
> can't hard-code the palette into the FRM, and right now FractInt is still a
> 256-color beast.  I have had good results rendering the same point with

That is not a problem to me, I have made very nice effects with 16 colors when
I have control of the color index.

> different coloring methods, using entirely different palettes, and merging
> them together with a graphics package.
>
> Damien M. Jones   \\

Can you tell me what atan() does in Fractint?  In an equation frm, we can say

x = atan(z),

z complex and x complex. Is this a true complex atan?  If so and we can set
color index plus have periodicity checking, solid guessing, or whatever, then
I could make a true field line following image. Unlike the kludge I posted
earlier.

Thanks for replying,

Jay


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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 21:29:36 -0600
From: "Damien M. Jones" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Re: Periodicity=0

At 10:18 PM 12/30/97 EST, T R Moe wrote:

 - I have seen the parameter periodicity=0 referred to several times and can
 - find no way to set this in any of the fractint options screens.  Am I
 - missing something?  How does one set periodicity equal to zero?

Press "g".  Type "periodicity=0" and press RETURN.  Not easy to figure out,
it took me a while (a couple of years ago) to find this.

Damien M. Jones   \\
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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 20:16:40 -0800
From: "Steve Jenks" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Phoenix Formula

Wizzle wrote:

>No matter what I do I can't seem to get Paul's phoenix spiral formula =
to
>work. =20

>Could someone who got the formula to work using Notepad please send me =
the
>file as an attachement to an email?  >-

Wizzle:

I've had the same problem. I've resorted to copy and paste to Notepad, =
then save the file. After saving, I open the file in a DOS-based editor =
which _really_ shows me what's going on in ASCII. What I find is that =
spaces are often filled with a lower case "a" with an accent mark above =
it ("`"). This, of course is an unprintable character which Fractint =
doesn't recognize. When I delete those "accented a's" and replace them =
with spaces, things generally work fine from there!

Hope that helps! (Heaven help us if you don't have a true DOS ASCII text =
editor <grin>.)

Steve



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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 23:48:51 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Paul Derbyshire)
Subject: Re: (fractint) High precision transcendental functions

>In article <[e-mail]> ,
>    [e-mail] (Paul Derbyshire)  writes:
>> >Have you looked at the GNU gmp library? It's free with source and
>> >documentation...
>>
>> Where can it and CLN be found & downloaded?
>
>The definitive source for all GNU software is
><URL: ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu>; the MP package is
><URL: ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/gmp-2.0.tar.gz>
>
>I can send you the documentation as postscript by email if you like
>(not everyone has the texinfo environment needed to build the
>postscript from source).

How big is it?
Also, not everyone has Linux and can handle tarred and gzipped files.
Where can these be obtained as plain zip files?
(Actually, zlib/libpng compiled into not just the libraries but also a
minigzip utility, I suppose now I can deal with gzip, but tar, uh-uh.)

>GMP supports: integers (mpz), rationals (mpq)
>and floating-point (mpf) formats.  However, there aren't any trig
>operations defined on the floating-point format.  The mpf operations
>defined by the package are:
>
>    mpf_add
>    mpf_sub
>    mpf_mul
>    mpf_sqrt
>    mpf_pow
>    mpf_neg
>    mpf_abs
>
>So, you could implement Taylor series expansion versions of the trig
>functions using this base of functions.

Hmmm.


Thanks...
I'll check that out, along with
http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~eww6n/TreasureTroves.html
...


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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 23:26:28 +1100
From: "B Michie" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Quartz formula pars

Thank you for your reply. I shall follow up those leads.
Beth

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 00:25:46 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Paul Derbyshire)
Subject: Re: (fractint) Image Compression/Decompression

Vector quantization...is that what JPEG uses? How does it work?


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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 16:34:33 +1100
From: "B Michie" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Australian users

And I'm glad you are creative in the kitchen. Men are good at that sort of
thing. Pays for us little women not to interfere in  a man's domain!
Beth


Plant real trees. Don't give me rubbish like, "I'd like
 a tall tree, but it mustn't grow above the gutters!
Oh- and the colour of the flowers mustn't clash
with the brickwork -- Spare me !@#$%^&***!

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> Subject: Re: (fractint) Australian users
> Date: Wednesday, December 31, 1997 11:15 AM
>
> Beth wrote:
> >Who needs an excuse!!!
>
>
> Oh, I use fractals as my excuse for all sorts of things,
> from being late to work ("Had to check on that deepzoom")
> to bumping into mailboxes ("That tree's bifurcation period
> had me entranced") to making disaster of dinner ("I got the
> recipe for this by translating one of Cliff Pickover's
> formulas... I call it Pickover Suprise.  Watch the peanut
> shells...)
>
> You're right, tho'... travel and exploration require no
> excuse!  :)
> Jason
>
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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 01:04:20 -0500
From: "Blake Hyde" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) A Par File (my first to the list :)

Ok, this is my first par file to the list. Now I can truly be classified a
"fractaholic." :) As a newbie, I would appreciate any
comments/suggestions/tips that you can give me. Thanx, bhyde...

- -----------------
SPM-1              {
  reset=1960 type=formula formulafile=hyde.frm formulaname=NoteW1
  function=floor passes=t
  center-mag=-0.90206095599999990/+0.07357791064999999/266.3536/0.9995
  colors=000GGY<2>SGYWGX_GXcGWaHX<6>JSi<6>FJZEHXEHX<5>EHZDG_DH_<5>HPbIRcIQ\
  c<5>HIbGGaHJa<5>N`eOcfNae<5>FPXDMVDMW<5>JMaKMcKMb<6>EQWEQWFQW<4>HOYINZIO\
  _<5>FXfEZhEZh<6>Hdl<7>EO_<5>GU`GV`HWaHYb<6>Hkm<7>GJW<6>KRbLTcLTc<4>ITbHT\
  bGSaGRa<6>DFY<6>FOZGQ_GQ_<8>ERaERaFSb<3>GUcGUcFUb<5>ASXASXBSY<3>DRaDRbEQ\
  cEPc<6>9Gc<7>Clp<6>BLdAGbBGb<6>MMa<7>ES_ES_FR_<4>HPZIOYIPZ<4>KWeACYMNW
  }
- -----------------
NoteW1 {
     A = ((sin(pixel)^2)*2), b = fn1(real(pixel)), c = pixel^2, z = pixel:
     z = z * z * a * b + c
     |Z| < 4
     }





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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 19:36:31 +1300
From: "Morgan L. Owens" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) another 24-bit coloring idea - fractal texture maps

At 18:41 30/12/97 -0600, Damien M. Jones wrote:
>Rich,
>
> - Here's a quickie idea... use the last iterate of each pixel to generate
> - texture coordinates (u,v) and then color the pixel by texture lookup.
>
>Kai's Fractal Explorer (part of Kai's Power Tools) has an option to do this
>sort of thing.  It uses the potential for one axis and field line angle for
>the other.  Very interesting, but not as spiffy as one might expect.  My
>main complaint is its field line resolution is limited, and becomes pretty
>much worthless after a few zooms.
>
I haven't really used it myself yet, but Pov-Ray 3.0 allows one to use
image maps as texture maps in much the same way. In fact, you can muck
around with textures in the same way as pure colours, including gradations
from one to another. Actually, as soon as I've finished checking my mail, I
might just do that - use a fractal to specify a texture map that blends
between two other textures.

MLO



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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 19:49:35 +1300
From: "Morgan L. Owens" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) That sexist fractal I was looking for

At 21:36 29/12/97 +1300, Morgan L. Owens (that's me) wrote:
>Funnily enough I did once come across a fractal using one of my own formuas
>that had a certain - shall we say - gynecalogical look to it.
>(Un)fortunately, I didn't save the parameters, and you know what THAT
means...
>I have a few leads on where I might find it, and if I find it I'll post it
up.
>
Okay, I did find it after all, and I might as well do what I said (the
colours are not the original palette). Even if you're not keen on these
fractals (and there are some types that leave me cold as well) you can
consider the associated formula consolation for your time.

Not exactly funny, but it gave me quite a turn when I first came across it.

Well, that's it on this subject from me,
>MLO

Muliebris?         { ; Gynecalogical? Downright clinical, if you ask me...
                     ; PARENTAL ADVISORY - May offend some viewers.
                     ; You Have Been Warned. Don't blame me.
  reset=1950 type=formula formulafile=evenmore.frm
  formulaname=lambdafroth4m function=conj/log
  center-mag=1.34271/3.33067e-016/2.506266/1/-90 params=0/0/0/0
  float=y maxiter=1023 inside=255 potential=255/400/200
  colors=000YGI<9>iLOjMPjNQ<25>sebtfctgduhevif<2>xkhxkhxlixlixlj<35>zyy<3>\
  mgijbehYa<2>_KQYGMWDJ<5>L06<73>sfn<12>VCJ<37>sfn000<25>XFH
  }

lambdafroth4m(XYAxis){
bailout=(4*(|p2|<=0)+p2)
z=lambda=pixel:
z=lambda*z-lambda/z
z=lambda*z-lambda*fn1(fn2(z))
|z|<=bailout}
}



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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 23:07:16 -0800
From: "Jay Hill" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Hot Biological Warning! was Blake Hyde s A Par File

Hi Blake,

Good start, Blake. The bailout of 4 is modeled after the Mandelbrot set, no
doubt.
Don't be afraid to try larger values with new formula, lacking theoretical
analysis.
Also, if you increase the iteration limit you can get more detail around the
solid
part. Just a scientist view, not an artists.

Here is something I found lurking nearby.  As usual, a lot of my fractals blow
up,
catch fire or look like they are about to explode.  Hope this is not too hot
for
this list.  :-)

Jay

frm:NoteW2 { ; Blake Hyde, modified by Jay Hill
     A = ((sin(pixel)^2)*2), b = fn1(real(pixel)), c = pixel^2, z = pixel:
     z = z * z * a * b + c
     |Z| < 40
     }


Aardvark-on-Fire   { ; after Blake Hyde
                     ; modified by Jay Hill
  reset=1960 type=formula formulafile=blake.frm formulaname=notew2
  function=floor
  center-mag=-0.77711853400000000/-0.28686130000000000/69.62382/1/-72.488/\
  0.067 maxiter=2560
  colors=000A3KKGY<4>cGW<6>MQgJSiIRg\
  <5>FJZEHXEHX<5>EHZ<3>BCNAAKAAKAAKAAKHD\
  JPGIWJG<5>zVA<28>w`BwUU<29>wLU<3>wcm<141>wmAACYMNW
  savename=Aardvark
  }


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> From: Blake Hyde <[e-mail]>
> Subject: (fractint) A Par File (my first to the list :)
> Date: Sunday, December 28, 1997 10:04 PM
>
> Ok, this is my first par file to the list. Now I can truly be classified a
> "fractaholic." :) As a newbie, I would appreciate any
> comments/suggestions/tips that you can give me. Thanx, bhyde...
>
> -----------------
> SPM-1              {
>   reset=1960 type=formula formulafile=hyde.frm formulaname=NoteW1
>   function=floor passes=t
>   center-mag=-0.90206095599999990/+0.07357791064999999/266.3536/0.9995
>   colors=000GGY<2>SGYWGX_GXcGWaHX<6>JSi<6>FJZEHXEHX<5>EHZDG_DH_<5>HPbIRcIQ\
>   c<5>HIbGGaHJa<5>N`eOcfNae<5>FPXDMVDMW<5>JMaKMcKMb<6>EQWEQWFQW<4>HOYINZIO\
>   _<5>FXfEZhEZh<6>Hdl<7>EO_<5>GU`GV`HWaHYb<6>Hkm<7>GJW<6>KRbLTcLTc<4>ITbHT\
>   bGSaGRa<6>DFY<6>FOZGQ_GQ_<8>ERaERaFSb<3>GUcGUcFUb<5>ASXASXBSY<3>DRaDRbEQ\
>   cEPc<6>9Gc<7>Clp<6>BLdAGbBGb<6>MMa<7>ES_ES_FR_<4>HPZIOYIPZ<4>KWeACYMNW
>   }
> -----------------
> NoteW1 {
>      A = ((sin(pixel)^2)*2), b = fn1(real(pixel)), c = pixel^2, z = pixel:
>      z = z * z * a * b + c
>      |Z| < 4
>      }


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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 02:58:53 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Paul Derbyshire)
Subject: (fractint) Re: Fractal quick guide

>Is this page gone, or just moved. I really liked it.
>
>http://wabakimi.carleton.ca/~pderbysh/manguide.html
>
>Let me know if it's still available, and I'll restore my link to it.

It's moved: http://www3.sympatico.ca/bob.beland/manguide.html, the root is
pgdindex.html. (The webspace is shared.)

No annoying twiddles in the URL either!

Say why the heck'dya change the reply-to to [e-mail]
of all places? Usually it's okay to leave it pointing at the mailing list.

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 03:05:36 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Paul Derbyshire)
Subject: Re: (fractint) Happy New Year!

I don't think Fractint has a built-in or formula type called "3Dformula".


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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 03:18:19 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Paul Derbyshire)
Subject: Re: (fractint) Par Problem - Can you help?

All three have "reset=0" which is damned strange. Have you tried changing
it to "reset=1960"? Are you even using the latest Fractint, 19.6?


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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 03:20:27 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Paul Derbyshire)
Subject: Re: (fractint) Multiple part files

>An alternative, is to use a more powerful image manipulation toolkit
>like netpbm.  However, the power of netpbm comes at the cost of some
>complexity...


Ah. Once again, someone has whet our collective appetite and tantalized us
with tyhe promise of a great tool, and then left us hanging with no URL,
no pointers even for more information.....



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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 03:22:51 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Paul Derbyshire)
Subject: Re: (fractint) The weirdest bird off the planet

>Weird-Bird         { ; (c) Jay Hill, 1997
>                     ;  *** No Use Of Any Kind Without Doctor's Permission ***
>                     ; Uses Paul Carlson's formula
>  reset=1960 type=formula formulafile=3dballsm.frm

Hey! This thing requires a formula that you didn't post with it!
Please make your PARs self contained! argh. :-)



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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 03:34:36 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Paul Derbyshire)
Subject: (fractint) Binary decomp...256 decomp...*continuous decomp?*

Continuous decomp: For every iteration, save a bool for whether it was
above or below the X-axis (i.e. imaginary part was positive or negative)
at that iteration. At the end, use the most recent bool thusly: set q =
0.5 if it is true (was negative), 0 otherwise. For the second last bool,
add 0.25 if true. For the next, 0.125, Continue to desired precision.

This results in a number between 0 and 1 that oughta be the external angle
passing through that point, or for set members, internal angle. Use it as
you wish, perhaps to index into a color map.

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    `*'  Send any and all mail with attachments to the hotmail address please.
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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 03:56:51 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Paul Derbyshire)
Subject: Re: (fractint) Algorithm Reply

>>Your algorithm sometimes zooms away from the set into a blank solid area
>>right? If you make a slight modification it won't: make it reject any
>>pixels whose 8 neighbors are all either the same color or the two
>>neighboring colors.


This was meant for [e-mail], who as it happens has apparently
forged his e-mail address: there is no [e-mail], and in fact no
machine named together.ne. I would like to ask everyone to use real, not
phony addresses when subscribing to the list. After all, if the list
decides to reject my mail again, and I have help to offer you about
algorithms, and you used a phony address signing on, I can't help you can
I? :-)

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 03:59:09 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Paul Derbyshire)
Subject: (fractint) What is going on here?

The list went down, was working again, then I got permission denied
tonight before midnight. But I'd sent a whole batch, and all the ones
AFTER midnight made it. Is it some kind of hour limitation? They've made
it off-limits during some sort of peak usage hours that end at midnight?

I think such a thing is bloody ridiculous, and that failing to inform
people about it is even more ridiculous. If there are going to be hours
when the list is open and hours when it is closed, please post them in
public on the list so that we KNOW about it instead of having to guess
based on when it lets us post and when it tells us we're not allowed...


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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 04:17:36 -0500
From: Les St Clair <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Happy New Year!

Paul Derbyshire wrote:

>>I don't think Fractint has a built-in or formula type called
"3Dformula".<<

Sounds like my e-mailer has managed to mess up the attachment too!
Are there <3D>'s after each <=3D>? ...these shouldn't be there.
Unfortunately I don't see the problem myself, the mail come back to me
exactly as I sent it.

Anyone else who is having problems with this par can send a private e-mai=
l
to:
<[e-mail]> and I will send the par as a zip file.

cheers, Les

p.s. it is a *really* cool par!!
(I can say that since it isn't actually my work<g>)




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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 04:34:20 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Paul Derbyshire)
Subject: Re: (fractint) Happy New Year!

>
>Paul Derbyshire wrote:
>
>>>I don't think Fractint has a built-in or formula type called
>"3Dformula".<<
>
>Sounds like my e-mailer has managed to mess up the attachment too!
>Are there <3D>'s after each <=>? ...these shouldn't be there.
>Unfortunately I don't see the problem myself, the mail come back to me
>exactly as I sent it.

Noooo! No. The weird_bird par is the one that requires 3dballsm.frm.

>

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 13:44:09 -0000
From: Peter Moreland <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Par Problem - Can you help?

- -----Original Message-----
From: Michael Traynor <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
Date: 30 December 1997 19:46
Subject: Re: (fractint) Par Problem - Can you help?

Michael writes:
<snip>
>If you can generate Turnz and Coilz in very small size, I'd like to see
>them and you could send them directly to me.
>Mike Traynor
<snip>
Managed to get 'em just viewable & down th 18k for both, so will post direct
to you :)

BTW, if I try to reposition them within Fractint, they also reset to the
same position the par files point to, *bizzare*...

Peter




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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 14:15:01 -0000
From: Peter Moreland <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Humor Hint

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From: Wizzle <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
Date: 30 December 1997 23:36
Subject: (fractint) Humor Hint

>biological or gynecological fractals are a non sequiter......hence the
humor
Erm, Yup, wasn't trying to be salacious, just raise a titter, Oh er
missus, blimey there goes the old Limey Brit school boy humo(u)r again!

Say maybe people might prefer a bit of Ursidaesm....

Peter

Ursidae            { ; (C)1997 Peter Moreland
                     ; Dec 31, 1997   0:01:55.07 P200MMX
                     ; Email: [e-mail]
                     ; *** No Commercial Use Without Permission ***
  reset=1960 type=manzzpwr
  center-mag=-1.14519475000000000/+0.00053454999999945/43.55676/1.2169/-90
  params=1/0/2 float=y maxiter=500 inside=0 potential=255/511/0
  colors=000<178>000S00FZH<3>6H7ppp<3>UUUhhUhhT<9>PI6giTgiT<11>TPBSOARM8PL\
  7OJ5MH3<2>LG3KG3JF3IF3IF2<24>050iN9hMA
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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 12:56:33 -0000
From: Peter Moreland <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Par Problem - Can you help?

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From: Wizzle <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
Date: 30 December 1997 22:25
Subject: Re: (fractint) Par Problem - Can you help?


>Peter....

<snip>


>Angela aka wizzle
>
>p.s. I just uploaded a bunch of new material based on my fractals
>.....seamless tiles made with Corel's PhotoPaint.......let me know how you
>like them.....they have the advantage of being fractal-ish but smaller if
>used as a desktop wallpaper
http://wizzle.simplenet.com/fractals/fractalintro.htm
><snip>

Thanks, will check it out :)


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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 08:46:34 -0000
From: Peter Moreland <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Happy New Year!

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From: Les St Clair <[e-mail]>
To: INTERNET:[e-mail] <[e-mail]>
Date: 30 December 1997 11:50
Subject: (fractint) Happy New Year!


Happy new year to you also :)

Where can I get the Fractext program?

It look like it would be fun to play with...

>Hi Everyone!

<snip>
>Actually, the original par is by  Jan Maarten van der Valk who wrote the
>Fractext program (used for the formula).
>I just added the color map for the New Year fireworks!!
<snip>


>cheers, Les



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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 14:32:43 -0000
From: Peter Moreland <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Phoenix Formula

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To: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
Date: 31 December 1997 04:18
Subject: Re: (fractint) Phoenix Formula



<snip>

>Hope that helps! (Heaven help us if you don't have a true DOS ASCII text
editor <grin>.)

>Steve


I've had the same problem with accented a's.... I *think* the DOS editor
that is in windows will allow you to edit the a's, open a dos session, type
"edit" and you will be able to load the notepad file edit and save it out
again.

*If* you have MS word then just paste the par into it and save out with a
text only option and the a's will be gone! Other WP may have the same result
if saved as text only...... but *not* notepad :(

STOP PRESS: Just had another though & it checks out ok... Wordpad  will do
if saved as text, should be in your 95 accessories folder :)

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 13:49:55 -0000
From: Peter Moreland <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Par Problem - Can you help?

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From: Jay Hill <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
Date: 30 December 1997 19:36
Subject: Re: (fractint) Par Problem - Can you help?


>Hi Peter,
>Of course we can't tell what your images were supposed to be without
>the GIF files.  But two of your pars seem to be off the interesting part
>of the image. Not sure what the problem is....
>
<snip>

Yup, you are absolutely right... The pars are regenerating miles away from
the area I captured, they were sections within the area you spotted :)

Can't think why they go screwy though, first time this has ever happened to
me :(


I am using 19.6, the image I started with was one of mine from the FC2E CD,
can't remember which version although all three were generated from it...



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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 10:53:23 -0500
From: "Blake Hyde" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Ze "Gallery"

    I now have a few fractals on my web pages... the page isn't finished
yet, I still have to integrate it with the rest of my homepage, but you can
get to it with a direct-URL at www.connectu.net/bhyde/fractal.htm. I take no
responsibility for loss of vision due to viewing my (5 picture) gallery.
*sigh* Now I'm going to start worrying over free web space... --B Hyde

"Only five megs?! Free?! You're kidding me!"
"Hmm, remind me to kill this guy at Angelfire..."
"Fortunecity looks good, but it's slow as heck..."
"What do you MEAN I've run over my limit by fifteen kilos?"

PS. Thanks for the tips, Jay. The aardvark was very... radioactive. :)


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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 08:09:52 -0800
From: Wizzle <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Ze "Gallery"

Blake....

Congrats on getting the homepage up....that is always a major effort.  Keep
up the good work in the new year

Angela aka wizzle


At 10:53 AM 12/29/97 -0500, you wrote:
>    I now have a few fractals on my web pages... the page isn't finished
>yet, I still have to integrate it with the rest of my homepage, but you can
>get to it with a direct-URL at www.connectu.net/bhyde/fractal.htm. I take no
>responsibility for loss of vision due to viewing my (5 picture) gallery.
>*sigh* Now I'm going to start worrying over free web space... --B Hyde
>
>"Only five megs?! Free?! You're kidding me!"
>"Hmm, remind me to kill this guy at Angelfire..."
>"Fortunecity looks good, but it's slow as heck..."
>"What do you MEAN I've run over my limit by fifteen kilos?"
>
>PS. Thanks for the tips, Jay. The aardvark was very... radioactive. :)
>
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