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fractint-digest        Saturday, April 4 1998        Volume 01 : Number 155




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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 21:00:55 -0500
From: Lee Skinner <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Julia trimmed

Hi Bob,

>>I thought this "trimmed" image was interesting.<<

It seems to have a lot of electrical energy.

Lee

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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 21:46:00 -0600 (Central Standard Time)
From: "John J. Brassil" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Fractal Friendsy

Sorry, Lee, couldn't resist.  :)

I was pretty pleased to see this mailing list at the Fractint home page,
where I drop by periodically (must be my day for bad puns) to see what's
new.   After scanning through the recent list archives, I have a few quick
questions for you, my FFs:

I had corresponded with Sylvie a while back asking about true-color modes
for the Millenium (none at the time.)  I see from a recent post that
you've managed to tweak a 16x12 out in VESA mode - any progress on color
depth > 256 as of yet?   Speaking of which, I finally decided to break
down and pay the outrageous price for an upgrade to my 2Mb, but all the
web sites say 2-3 weeks minimum - *no one* has it in stock right now.  Any
idea from you Great White Northerners on that story? (I know the Mill is
serious old school at this point.)   BTW, Sylvie, I would like to take you
up on your offer of the vesa2cfg.zip file, please.

Does anyone know of a batch mode GIF to BMP converter?   I have been
mucking about lately with the Cthuga pluging for the Winamp MP3 player and
it's ability to load pictures as background is unfortunately limited to
BMPs.   The good news is that fractal images were absolutely *made* for
this - I DJed a party last weekend where I blew the Cthuga visuals into an
800 x 600 Epson projector and onto a wall and it was the BOMB.   I yanked
about a dozen of my homemade fractals in, just to have something, but I
sure would love to take the LView slide-show lists I made from Lee's
Fractal Frenzy discs and get busy with some *real* artwork.

Speaking of which, have you published anything since the Visions CDROM,
Mr. Skinner?

Finally, I'd like to know if Universe is still publishing their calendar.
The last one I had was for 95 (in a weird coincidence, when I moved here
in July of that year, Brian Evans was still working at Vandy, and some of
this work was in the calendar!) and when I called about a new one, the
phone was disconnected.   Too bad, because it sure beat the hell out of
Dilbert and the Far Side (OK, OK, I love Scott Adams and Gary Larson, too.)

Nice to be on board - let me know if you need a fractal DJ.  ;)

B

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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 23:15:25 -0500
From: Lee Skinner <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Fractal Frien

Hi John,

>>Speaking of which, have you published anything since the Visions CDROM,=
 =

Mr. Skinner?<<

I am offering my latest CDROM (Fractal Dimensions) at a 25% discount off
the $39.95 list price to readers of this list (+ $5 s&h - or $10 s&h outs=
ide
USA).  =


Lee H. Skinner
P.O. Box 14944
Albuquerque, NM  87191

This disc has over 2600 new images and is formatted in html.

BTW, Fractal Frenzy I and II are now out of print.

Lee

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Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 01:07:13 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Paul Derbyshire)
Subject: Re: (fractint) Missing fomula file

>Paul asked:
>
>>> Where the ^@#! is les_pars.frm?
>
>It's on the first page of of my Fractint par pages at:
>
>http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Les_StClair/
>
>The zip file is called "lparfrms.zip"

Thx, I found it.

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Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 02:04:34 -0800 (PST)
From: "James R. McKenzie" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Collecting Fractals, was How many Par's Frm's Map's Etc

One of my problems is I have so much "STUFF" for FRACTINT I'm sure
that all of it is no longer registering with the progrma.  How many
Par's, Map's, Frm's and such will it find per directory before it gets
maxed out?

I'm a pack rat by nature (I'll keep old COMPUTER SHOPPER magazines for
about a year or so before throwing them out, now "THAT's" bad.  8-P )
so that fact I have a 4 gig HDD is no help here.  I have a 2GB tape
drive and several "DUMP" tapes to keep from crashing myself.  FRACTINT
however needs all of certain files in order to do it's thing, what I'm
noticing is it won't list all the PAR's I have anymore.  Sometimes
it'll list certain ones sometimes not.  In a way it's like the 1000
file limit in the DOS root directory I guess.  Any ideas here folx?
I moved some of my PAR's to a secondary directory but I need to know
how many files I can have per directory before I max it out too.  It a
curse of plenty I guess.


           Oh well.  I'm swimmin' in Fractals and lovin' it.


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Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 06:38:21 -0500
From: "Jason Hine" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Fractal Friendsy

John, our Fractal Friend wonders:

>Does anyone know of a batch mode GIF to BMP converter?

Handmade Software Inc. produces a piece of shareware called Image Alchemy which
will convert most image types into most other image types with single
commands... it would be relatively easy to create a batch file of these commands
to run overnight on your machine.  For DOS or UNIX.  Shareware demo version is
limited to 640x480, but if it does what you want it to, the real version is...
um, pretty expensive if all you want to do is convert GIF to BMP!  Anyway, check
out < http://www.handmadesw.com >, and good luck!

Cheers, Jason


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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 06:06:45 -0800
From: Wizzle <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Fractal Friendsy

Paint Shop Pro does batch conversions to and from any of it's supported
graphics formats (among which are gif and bmp plus many others) quite
nicely. Price is $69 but you can download a beta version of 5.0 for free at
this time. Although I also own the Corel Draw 7 suite and Micrographix, I
use PSP on a more regular basis for all sorts of things so the $69 is an
excellent investment for anyone who needs to edit and manage graphics.

PSP is available for download at

www.jasc.com

If you do decide to buy PSP, make sure you get the CD ROM which has a
really good tutorial and lots of graphics goodies. PSP is also very well
suppported by users on the web as well as JASC. It accepts Photoshop plug-ins.

Angela aka wizzle

At 09:46 PM 4/3/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Sorry, Lee, couldn't resist.  :)
>
 <<snipped>
>Does anyone know of a batch mode GIF to BMP converter?   I have been
>mucking about lately with the Cthuga pluging for the Winamp MP3 player and
>it's ability to load pictures as background is unfortunately limited to
>BMPs.   The good news is that fractal images were absolutely *made* for
>this - I DJed a party last weekend where I blew the Cthuga visuals into an
>800 x 600 Epson projector and onto a wall and it was the BOMB.   I yanked
>about a dozen of my homemade fractals in, just to have something, but I
>sure would love to take the LView slide-show lists I made from Lee's
>Fractal Frenzy discs and get busy with some *real* artwork.
>
>
>John J. Brassil | Network Engineer, Vanderbilt ACIS Networks | 615.322.2496
>
>
>
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Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 18:48:57 +0200
From: "Thaddaeus Parker" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Raw2Pov

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

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Have a general question for you all, out there in Fractint Land.  I have =
created some spiffy 3D images that I would like to render in POV. The =
problem that I face is that utility I tried to find and found was the =
raw to pov source code. I have Turbo C++ 4.5 compiler and when I compile =
it everything works except one error that deals with conflict of =
changing a void* to a char* pointers.=20
So my main question is:  Does anyone know or have any idea where an =
executable version of the raw2pov converter is?  I've checked almost =
every link in the POV utilities section and have come up with zilch.

To those who answer, Tango in advance!!!

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come up=20
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advance!!!</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>

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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 12:26:45 -0500
From: Dick Amerman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Fractal Friendsy

> Does anyone know of a batch mode GIF to BMP converter?

I just downloaded a free viewer from zdnet's latest offering of 20 freebies:

http://www.zdnet.com/chkpt/mkt2110980311/www.hotfiles.com/free

It has batch conversion capability, reads around 20 graphics formats and saves
to five -- .jpg, .gif, .bmp, .png, and .tif .

Dick



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Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 13:04:05 -0500
From: "Brian E. Jones" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) animators for fractint

Does anyone know of any good animators for fractint other than Fractani?

Brian
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Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 15:11:52 -0500
From: "Peter Gavin" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Contest images webpage

Sorry about the first reply, I accidentally hit ctrl-enter in outlook
express...  Stupid combination, I think...

Anyways, the reason IE4 chokes on this page is because it doesn't have a
connection limit you can set.  I mean, for every image on the page, a _whole
new connection_ is created.  Needless to say, this reduces the bandwidth on
each individual image to about .0001 kbps, so IE thinks the site
unconnectable, or doesn't exist, because it will have exceeded the timeout
by the time anything is downloaded.  If you do as mentioned before, and
right-click the image and select "Show picture" it'll try again, and
download
the image successfully.  Netscape does allow you to limit the number of
connections, so this isn't a problem at all.   Maybe this should go on MS's
wish
list?



Pete
<[e-mail]>



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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 12:35:33 -0800
From: Wizzle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Carlson Formula

I've been messing around with one of Paul Carlson's latest formulas and
have a few pars to share. Also, along with the pars I re-did Paul's color
map. I think each of the pars below have a different color map and in this
case the maps do NOT cycle for Paul's formulas so you may want to grab the
maps even if you don't care about the pars. I did find Paul's original
color map very easy to adapt.......I just stuck to where he put his
lightest and darkest colors.

Thanks Paul!! great stuff

wizapr98-1         { ; 4/3/98 copyright Angela Wilczynski aka wizzle
                     ; from a Paul Carlson formula
  reset=1960 type=formula formulafile=apr98.frm
  formulaname=fb_halley_m4
  center-mag=-19.54130000000000000/+0.00000000000000186/74.01105/1.3333/90
  params=1/0/0.85/0/0.75/0 float=y maxiter=1000 inside=253
  outside=summ viewwindows=1/1/yes/0/0
  colors=000zzc<28>K5AzKU<27>M12K00KKU<28>00AGGz<28>K0KfOz<28>K0FKKU<28>A0\
  KzKU<28>O00zcU<28>K4A000<13>000
  }

wizapr98-2         { ; 4/3/98 copyright Angela Wilczynski aka wizzle
                     ; from a Paul Carlson Formula
  reset=1960 type=formula formulafile=apr98.frm
  formulaname=FB_Halley_M4
  center-mag=-0.899524/1.52656e-016/13.84275/1/90
  params=1/0/1/0/0.08/0 float=y maxiter=1000 inside=253 outside=summ
  colors=000zzc<28>K5Azzm<28>K0A0wz<28>K0AGGz<28>K0KfOz<28>K0Fzcc<28>K0KzK\
  U<28>O00zcU<28>K4A000<13>000
  }

wizapr98-3         { ; 4/3/98 copyright Angela Wilczynski aka wizzle
                     ; from a Paul Carlson formula
  reset=1960 type=formula formulafile=apr98.frm
  formulaname=fb_halley_m4
  center-mag=-726.69704004330260000/+6.22295172006555800/7504.629/1/83.497
  params=1/0/4/0/0.5/0 float=y maxiter=1000 inside=253 outside=summ
  colors=000zzc<28>K5AzKU<27>M12K00KKU<28>00AGGz<28>K0KfOz<28>K0FKKU<28>A0\
  KzKU<28>O00zcU<28>K4A000<13>000
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Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 22:54:18 +0200
From: "Thaddaeus Parker" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Sent bad mail: Have same question: Raw2Pov?

I apologize for sending some HTML format mail. Didn't realize it.  Here is
the question again.

I've made some spiffy Fractint 3D images that I would like to get over to
POV, but everything I've found is just source code.  I have a C++ compiler
from Borland. It will compile just great up to a point and then give me
errors up the whazzu. Most notably for a void* to char* conversion.

anybody know where a good raw to pov conversion port is?


Tango in advance!!


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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 15:27:28 -0800
From: Wizzle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) New Colormaps

The full set of new colormaps is now available at

http://wizzle.simplenet.com/fractals/fractint_maps/newmaps.htm

The maps are posted in both par and map (zipped) formats.  Please let me
know what you think. I believe the next step is to decide how many maps to
bundle with the next release of Fractint. There are approximately 120 maps
posted and they are all great. Is this too many? I think this ought to be a
topic posted to this list so we can all see the debate. Provide comments by
4/18/98.

Angela aka wizzle

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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 17:49:13 -0600
From: Bob Margolis <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) New Colormaps

Fractint's Den Mother Wizzle wrote:
>
> I believe the next step is to decide how many maps to
> bundle with the next release of Fractint.

If Fractint v.20 has a proposed graphic format change from gif to png,
will the new format be able to read the current map files? Or will they
have to be rewritten so they can be read under png? IMHO, if the answer
involves the latter question then the map files can only be used with
Fractint 19.6 and earlier versions.

> There are approximately 120 maps posted and they are all great. Is this too many?

When I was a little boy in first grade, I became jealous at those
classmates whose parents could afford to buy their kiddies Crayolas in
64 colors while my parents bought the measly 8-color box for my use. The
more colors the merrier, I believe. So, IMHO, 120 maps is enough to play
around with. They've already been created, so make that your limit. This
way you won't put your self in the unenviable position of determining
which color maps should be trashed.

Bob "Extra Crispy Fractals" Margolis

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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 16:33:01 -0800
From: Mark Christenson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) updated gallery

Hey, folks!  I just got done updating Fractint Gallery 3, with
four previously unreleased images, and other areas of my
Web site.

main site:
www.hooked.net/~mchris/fractals.htm

Fractint Gallery 3:
www.hooked.net/~mchris/fractin3.htm


Enjoy, Bud


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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 18:08:10 -0800
From: Wizzle <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) New Colormaps

Bob..

I too wanted that really big Crayola set!!! My folks were poor. These
fractint maps might just set our childish desires to rest and they are
really good. I encourage one and all to download them (trash your old stuff).

Angele aka wizzle (and what the heck is a den mother????)

At 05:49 PM 4/4/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Fractint's Den Mother Wizzle wrote:
>>
>> I believe the next step is to decide how many maps to
>> bundle with the next release of Fractint.
>
>If Fractint v.20 has a proposed graphic format change from gif to png,
>will the new format be able to read the current map files? Or will they
>have to be rewritten so they can be read under png? IMHO, if the answer
>involves the latter question then the map files can only be used with
>Fractint 19.6 and earlier versions.
>
>> There are approximately 120 maps posted and they are all great. Is this
too many?
>
>When I was a little boy in first grade, I became jealous at those
>classmates whose parents could afford to buy their kiddies Crayolas in
>64 colors while my parents bought the measly 8-color box for my use. The
>more colors the merrier, I believe. So, IMHO, 120 maps is enough to play
>around with. They've already been created, so make that your limit. This
>way you won't put your self in the unenviable position of determining
>which color maps should be trashed.
>
>Bob "Extra Crispy Fractals" Margolis
>

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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 18:14:42 -0800
From: Wizzle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) New computer

My son (the Prince) just wandered into my firmament. It seems I need a new
computer system because he will be getting my exisiting system...please
advise...

1. I want a 19" monitor
2. Need a honking graphics card that will run fractint

the requirement about Fractint is paramount. Can this group give me plus
and minus about the various video cards available? Send emails direct to me at

[e-mail]

Thanks so much

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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 18:14:31 -0800
From: Mark Christenson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) New computer

At 06:14 PM 4/4/98 -0800, Wizzle wrote:
>...
>It seems I need a new computer system...
>...
>2. Need a honking graphics card that will run fractint
>
>the requirement about Fractint is paramount. Can this group give me plus
>and minus about the various video cards available? Send emails direct to me at

Hey, count *me* in on that data!  Maybe not a "honking" card;
I'm saddled with my 486/VESA for the time being, but I need
a new card because I can't get drivers for all that neat new
multimedia sh*t for my Trident '89 model.  Plus I'd like 24 bit
color, so I don't have to look at those true-color images with
ugly dithering.  I'd prefer something with at least 2 meg (to
support page swapping at 640x480 for my self-built flight sims).


Thanks, Bud


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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 21:20:52 -0500
From: Gedeon Peteri <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) New Colormaps

Wizzle wrote:

>  I encourage one and all to download them (trash your old stuff).

I did download them and greatly appreciate your efforts! Trash my old stuff?
Heaven forbid! I only have about 600 maps on file and two programs to create some
more!

Gedeon


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Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 20:15:56 -0700 (MST)
From: Kerry Mitchell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) New computer

Wizzle,

I recently bought a Viewsonic 17" monitor that supports 1600 x 1200
resolution, and I'm very happy with it.  My video card is a Matrox
Millenium II, that I've upgraded to 8MB ram.  Of course, Fractint doesn't
use anywhere near 8MB, but I do a lot of 24bit work, so the ram allows me
to view 1600x1200 in true color.  The Matrox card came with a lot of fancy
utilities that work fine for me.  Sylvie wrote a Fractint.cfg entry for
the Millenium at 1600 x 1200, which works fine.

Just my 3 cents worth.

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On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Wizzle wrote:

> My son (the Prince) just wandered into my firmament. It seems I need a new
> computer system because he will be getting my exisiting system...please
> advise...
>
> 1. I want a 19" monitor
> 2. Need a honking graphics card that will run fractint
>
> the requirement about Fractint is paramount. Can this group give me plus
> and minus about the various video cards available? Send emails direct to me at
>
> [e-mail]
>
> Thanks so much
>
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Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 20:15:56 -0700 (MST)
From: Kerry Mitchell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) New computer

Wizzle,

I recently bought a Viewsonic 17" monitor that supports 1600 x 1200
resolution, and I'm very happy with it.  My video card is a Matrox
Millenium II, that I've upgraded to 8MB ram.  Of course, Fractint doesn't
use anywhere near 8MB, but I do a lot of 24bit work, so the ram allows me
to view 1600x1200 in true color.  The Matrox card came with a lot of fancy
utilities that work fine for me.  Sylvie wrote a Fractint.cfg entry for
the Millenium at 1600 x 1200, which works fine.

Just my 3 cents worth.

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On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Wizzle wrote:

> My son (the Prince) just wandered into my firmament. It seems I need a new
> computer system because he will be getting my exisiting system...please
> advise...
>
> 1. I want a 19" monitor
> 2. Need a honking graphics card that will run fractint
>
> the requirement about Fractint is paramount. Can this group give me plus
> and minus about the various video cards available? Send emails direct to me at
>
> [e-mail]
>
> Thanks so much
>
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Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 19:57:35 -0800
From: "Jay Hill" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) New Colormaps

> From: Wizzle <[e-mail]>
> http://wizzle.simplenet.com/fractals/fractint_maps/newmaps.htm
> Bob..
>
> I too wanted that really big Crayola set!!! My folks were poor. These
> fractint maps might just set our childish desires to rest and they are
> really good. I encourage one and all to download them (trash your old stuff).

>
> Angele aka wizzle (and what the heck is a den mother????)

She helps lead in cub scouts club.

> >more colors the merrier, I believe. So, IMHO, 120 maps is enough to play
> >around with. They've already been created, so make that your limit. This
> >way you won't put your self in the unenviable position of determining
> >which color maps should be trashed.
> >
> >Bob "Extra Crispy Fractals" Margolis

And guess what were the favorite colors in those Crayon sets.  The same
as now, the metallic ones; gold, silver, copper.  My folks were never in the
money
also.  I saved up, doing chores, one penny at a time, and bought my set.
It was my very first purchase and cost one dollar from Sears catalog.

In those days we used coloring books to show us where to put the colors.
Of course we usually went out side of the lines and used gold, silver or copper
where the book called for yellow, blue or red.  And so it is with Fractint. We
need a coloring book, those lines to show off our new colors. And here it
is, a repost, thanks to Sylvie. I put the new Map files in a directory off
the Fractint directory, called Wiz-Maps, so I can find them.  Also, the
pallette.par, so I can view them.

palette-par        { ; Copyright Sylvie Gallet, Mar 20, 1998
                     ; .              t=  0:00:00.66
                     ; <[e-mail]>
                     ; t=calc time using a Pentium 166 at 320 x 200
  reset=1960 type=formula formulafile=test.frm formulaname=palette
  passes=1 center-mag=3.33067e-016/-2.22045e-016/1.893939 float=y
  maxiter=255 outside=summ colors=038<128>wwzwwzvvy<123>F00
  }
frm:palette { ; use maxiter=255 and outside=summ
  z0 = 256 * real(scrnpix)/real(scrnmax) , iter=0 :
  iter = iter + 1
  z = z0 - iter
  0
}

Now I hope Wizzle still has relevant data about each map. This would
fit in the "colors=038<128>wwzwwzvvy<123>F00" format. Do you need
help preparing this format Wizzle?  We really need this format. The map
files take 499712 (.5 Meg) on a hard disk.  The colors format should take
about 40k.

Jay


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Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 21:13:23 -0700
From: Ray Montgomery <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) New computer in the offing

        I am also about a month or so away from getting a new computer.  I
know the quantities I (think) I want for ram and HD and at least a 4 meg
video card, but what type of video card would be best for Fractint, I have
no idea.
        Since Fractint is now my 'reason for existence' (almost) that system
which would be the most compatible to Fractint is of utmost importance.  Any
ol' machine would do for word processing or anything else I might do, but it
MUST be Fractint compatible.  I (think) I would like to go up to 1240 for
pixel size, I  don't think I need more because I doubt whether I will get
that deeply into the varieties of images.  (just a simple 'home boy'!)
        Already some good input on the postings, but any more would serve
all of us well.  (I think.)
                                Ray


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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 23:51:44 -0500
From: Peter Jakubowicz <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) New Colormaps

At 07:57 PM 4/4/98 -0800, Jay Hill wrote:

>Now I hope Wizzle still has relevant data about each map. This would
>fit in the "colors=038<128>wwzwwzvvy<123>F00" format.

sorry, if i missed this before, but what is this format?: wld you still
save each of these with the .map extension, and load them like a colormap,
or is this something different.


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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 22:05:29 -0800
From: kathy roth <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Re: First post to Group

Earl Simpson wrote:

> My name is Earl Simpson, and i'm a newbie to the group.  I found this image
> while zooming in on carr3197 ---- I'm calling it Santa Clause and Candy
> Canes.  Hope it is a new one.  Comments are welcomed.
>
> es0001             { ; Santa Clause and Candy Canes
>   reset=1960 type=formula formulafile=43ccarr.frm formulaname=carr3197
>   passes=1
>   corners=-4.597312839286e-006/4.628817960798e-006/0.4760988022378/0.47610\
>   57218359 params=200/300/400/550 float=y maxiter=647 periodicity=0
>   colors=000Y00V00<9>c00000<12>VEvXFzZIx<10>svc<13>5Pz<8>19M000<3>000UMF<1\
>   4>svc<13>UMF000007<13>2CU<6>1ajinf<3>lttmvxmvw<11>johioginfhmdhmd<23>zzz\
>   itgkpd<29>000zzzab3<12>svc<13>0Zc<12>039007000<11>K00
>   }
>
  Hi Earl, I can't find carr3197- can you repost it?


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Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 00:13:09 -0600 (CST)
From: [e-mail] (Paul and/or Joyce Carlson)
Subject: (fractint) Nice 3D effect

comment {
I'm reposting my Halley flexball formula along with two
new par files that redo two of the images created by the
pars in the original posting.  The pars below give the
images a very exotic 3D effect.

Paul Carlson
}

frm:FB_Halley_M4 {; Copyright (c) Paul W. Carlson, 1998
    ; Always use float=y, outside=summ
    ; p1 = relaxation factor
    ; p2 = radius of center of ring (0.01 to 10)
    ; p3 = one half thickness of ring (0.01 to p2)

    c = pixel
    w = z = iter = bailout = 0
    d0 = p2 + p3
    d1 = 0.382683432365 * p2
    d2 = 0.923879532511 * p2
    dsqd = d0 * d0 + p2 * p2 - (d0 + d0) * d2
    :
    w2 = w * w, fnc = w2 * w2 - w - c, der = 4 * w * w2 - 1
    k = p1 * fnc / (der - 12 * w2 * fnc / (der + der))
    w = w - k
    ;
    IF ((abs(cabs(w) - p2) < p3) && iter > 0)
    bailout = 1
    wr = real(w), wi = imag(w)
    awr = abs(wr), awi = abs(wi)
    IF (awr >= awi)
        dist = (awr - d2) * (awr - d2) + (awi - d1) * (awi - d1)
        adjust = 1
    ELSE
        dist = (awr - d1) * (awr - d1) + (awi - d2) * (awi - d2)
        adjust = 0
    ENDIF
    IF     (wr >= 0 && wi >= 0)
        range_num = 1 - adjust
    ELSEIF (wr < 0 && wi >= 0)
        range_num = 2 + adjust
    ELSEIF (wr < 0 && wi < 0)
        range_num = 5 - adjust
    ELSE
        range_num = 6 + adjust
    ENDIF
    ratio = sqrt(dist / dsqd)
    z = 29 * ratio + range_num * 30 + 1
    ELSEIF (|k| < 0.000001)
    bailout = 1
    z = 252
    ENDIF
    iter = iter + 1
    z = z - iter
    bailout == 0
}

fbbhalm1           {; Copyright (c) Paul W. Carlson, 1998
  reset=1960 type=formula formulafile=fbhalm4.frm
  formulaname=fb_halley_m4 passes=1
  center-mag=-17.25916734130114000/+0.00000000000000176/1265\
  6.11/1/90
  params=1/0/1/0/0.8/0
  float=y maxiter=1000 inside=253 outside=summ
  colors=0000zz<14>0CC0ZZ<12>0CCGGz<14>00O77d<12>00OfOz<14>I0KTBb\
  <12>I0Kz0f<14>O08d0O<12>O08z88<14>O00d44<12>O00zW0<14>c40mH0<12\
  >c40zz0<14>aG0l`0<12>aG00zR<14>0C40ZE<12>0C4000<10>000zzz000kkk
  }

fbbhalm2           {; Copyright (c) Paul W. Carlson, 1998
  reset=1960 type=formula formulafile=fbhalm4.frm
  formulaname=fb_halley_m4 passes=1
  center-mag=-19.54130000000000000/+0.00000000000000186/68.68\
  225/1/90
  params=1/0/1/0/0.8/0
  float=y maxiter=1000 inside=253 outside=summ
  colors=0000zz<14>0CC0ZZ<12>0CCGGz<14>00O77d<12>00OfOz<14>I0KTBb\
  <12>I0Kz0f<14>O08d0O<12>O08z88<14>O00d44<12>O00zW0<14>c40mH0<12\
  >c40zz0<14>aG0l`0<12>aG00zR<14>0C40ZE<12>0C4000<10>000zzz000kkk
  }



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