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fractint-digest      Tuesday, September 21 1999      Volume 01 : Number 414




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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 09:58:09 -0700
From: "Terry Erickson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Does Soundblaster work?

I believe my sound card is a Soundblaster AWE 64 and it seems to work fine.

 I followed the instructions in the demo and learned to make fractal sounds.

I played with it for a couple of hours last night. I am now planning to use
this Fractint function  in my own music. Might well be my new obsession.

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Subject: RE: (fractint) Does Soundblaster work?


> Hi Lionel,
>
> > Is Fractint designed for Soundblaster and
> >cards of that kind at all, or should this be regarded
> >as a bug?
>
>
>  I wrote the sound drivers from the original Soundblaster card
> documentation so an AWE32 should work as long as it's backward
> compatible with the old card as regards the FM synth. I haven't tested
> it on an AWE32 myself but believe it should work.... can anyone verify
> this?
>
> You could try checking the sound mixer control in windows,  try
> turning up all the controls and if you're using the windows standard
> mixer  then make sure you've checked out the mixer properties and have
> all possible controls enabled.
>
> Hope this helps,
>                        Robin.
>
>
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 14:05:48 -0500
From: "Damien M. Jones" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Fractal-Art '99 Contest: Web Site Bug

Greetings folks,

Just wanted to let you know that there was a bug in the "unmark" code which
caused all marks to be removed, not just the one for the image you
selected. This will be fixed shortly. Marking, however, worked just fine.

Damien M. Jones   \\
[e-mail]  \\  Fractalus Galleries & Info:
                    \\  http://www.fractalus.com/

Please do not post my e-mail address on a web site or
in a newsgroup.  Thank you.

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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:38:09 -0700
From: "Jim Prickett" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) xfractint 310 - Linux ?

 << I don't really understand what the advantages of the DOS environment
are.

<One advantage is speed - it runs faster under DOS than in Windows.

What speed difference is there running it under Linux,
does anyone know ?

Jim Prickett



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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 07:17:57 -0600
From: "Tim Wegner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) More on makefcfg

I make a DOS boot disk under Windows 95, and booted with no
config.sys or autoexec.bat from a floppy, and makefcfg worked, so
the Win95 DOS must have DPMI services built in.

Last night I couldn't find an earlier version DOS boot disk, but I
must have one somewhere. The djgpp compiler comes with a
program called cwsdpmi.exe that provides DPMI services. It is
probably just a question of running this, however I can't test it until I
get a DOS environment with no DPMI.

What I may do it put the 22k program on my FTP site (it's free) and
let those of you who can't run makefcfg try it. I have only had two
reports.

Tim

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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 17:34:55 -0600
From: "Tim Wegner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) xfractint 310 - Linux ?

Jim asked:

> What speed difference is there running it under Linux,
> does anyone know ?

The Linux version (at present) makes no use of assembly
language, and is probably quite a bit slower than the DOS version.

Our hope for the future is to get Fractint completely inside a 32 bit
memory environment and port some of the assembler for the most
critical bottlenecks for both Windows and Linux.

Tim



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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 20:35:45 -0400
From: Bill Jemison <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Does Soundblaster work?

 << I followed the instructions in the demo and learned to make fractal
 <<sounds.

 <<I played with it for a couple of hours last night. I am now planning t=
o
use
 <<this Fractint function  in my own music. Might well be my new obsessio=
n.

Great! That's really nice to hear. Be sure to post some music pars.

Bill

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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 01:45:15 -0400
From: BILL RAY <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Does Soundblaster work?

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I have this peculiar situation - I can't get Fractint (any version) to
work without lots of visual noise (horizontal lines disrupting the images
in color cycling) so I have to re-boot to DOS.  Then Fractint works as
beautifully as it used to on my old machine 3 years ago (a Northgate 66mhz
with 8megs of ram).  But the music pars in Fractint 20 don't work in DOS.
When I go back into Windows 95 (I have a Dell 200mhz Pentium with 64megs
of ram) the music pars work beautifully, either in a DOS box or full
window.  I can't seem to get these two conditions to synchronize.  It
isn't a problem because, when I want to work visually, I boot to DOS.
When I want to work with the music pars I do it by calling Fractint up
directly in Windows.

When I type "set" at the DOS prompt the following line appears as the last
line in the display:
BLASTER= A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 E620

I checked the instructions in the Creative manual and the settings above
should work in DOS as well as Windows 95 - but they apparently don't.  Has
anyone else encountered the same problem and can anyone give me a
suggestion or is this a vagary of my machine?

Thanks.  Bill Ray.

[e-mail] wrote:

> Hi Lionel,
>
> > Is Fractint designed for Soundblaster and
> >cards of that kind at all, or should this be regarded
> >as a bug?
>
>  I wrote the sound drivers from the original Soundblaster card
> documentation so an AWE32 should work as long as it's backward
> compatible with the old card as regards the FM synth. I haven't tested
> it on an AWE32 myself but believe it should work.... can anyone verify
> this?
>
> You could try checking the sound mixer control in windows,  try
> turning up all the controls and if you're using the windows standard
> mixer  then make sure you've checked out the mixer properties and have
> all possible controls enabled.
>
> Hope this helps,
>                        Robin.
>
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I have this peculiar situation - I can't get Fractint (any version) to
work without lots of visual noise (horizontal lines disrupting the images
in color cycling) so I have to re-boot to DOS.  Then Fractint works
as beautifully as it used to on my old machine 3 years ago (a Northgate
66mhz with 8megs of ram).  But the music pars in Fractint 20 don't
work in DOS.  When I go back into Windows 95 (I have a Dell 200mhz
Pentium with 64megs of ram) the music pars work beautifully, either in
a DOS box or full window.  I can't seem to get these two conditions
to synchronize.  It isn't a problem because, when I want to work visually,
I boot to DOS.  When I want to work with the music pars I do it by
calling Fractint up directly in Windows.
<p>When I type "set" at the DOS prompt the following line appears as the
last line in the display:
<br><b>BLASTER= A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 E620</b><b></b>
<p>I checked the instructions in the Creative manual and the settings above
should work in DOS as well as Windows 95 - but they apparently don't.
Has anyone else encountered the same problem and can anyone give me a suggestion
or is this a vagary of my machine?
<p>Thanks.  Bill Ray.
<p>[e-mail] wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi Lionel,
<p>> Is Fractint designed for Soundblaster and
<br>>cards of that kind at all, or should this be regarded
<br>>as a bug?
<p> I wrote the sound drivers from the original Soundblaster card
<br>documentation so an AWE32 should work as long as it's backward
<br>compatible with the old card as regards the FM synth. I haven't tested
<br>it on an AWE32 myself but believe it should work.... can anyone verify
<br>this?
<p>You could try checking the sound mixer control in windows,  try
<br>turning up all the controls and if you're using the windows standard
<br>mixer  then make sure you've checked out the mixer properties
and have
<br>all possible controls enabled.
<p>Hope this helps,
<br>
Robin.
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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:18:12 -0700
From: Mark Christenson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Does Soundblaster work?

At 01:45 AM 9/18/99 -0400, Bill Ray wrote:

>...
>But the music pars in Fractint 20 don't work in DOS.
>...
>When I type "set" at the DOS prompt the following line appears as the last
>line in the display:
>BLASTER= A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 E620

Please don't be insulted, because you have probably tried
this, but: have you tried the "diagnose" command?  I have
an 80 MHz 486DX2 running Win 3.1 (which is irrelevent,
since I'm running in pure DOS mode) and the sound demo
and other random pars are working fine (although I get the
same polyphonic sounds whether I'm in x, y, or z mode).
"Diagnose" should suggest the proper settings for your
Soundblaster in DOS mode. Do you have any DOS games
you can run (for comparison)?


Good luck, Bud


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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 10:20:56 +0200
From: "Jean-Pierre Louvet" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Contest French mirror

Please, use only this address if you have to send me a mail about any
problem with the mirror (and send again your message here if you have no
reply from me).
I have a temporary problem with my other address.

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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:14:59 -0400
From: davides <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Summer is ending, Fall approaches (2 pars)

Greetings.

A word of explanation for the accompanying two pars.

ds57 was generated from an original image by Paul Carlson (1998):
Petals_Barnsley1. I made a slight change in the parameters, P1, P2 and max
iterations, and changed the focal area (for want of a better expression) by
recentering the image via the zoom box. The color map was originally Droz
38, but again I made a slight modificatioon for the purpose of this image.

ds58 was generated by evolver set at defaults from ds57.

Hope you like them, and hope no one is offended by the synthesis and
modifcations as indicated above.


ds57               { ;  (c) David Shanholtzer Sep 18, 1999 t=  0:06:34.36
                     ;  P200 MMX 1024x768
                     ; Color map: Droz 38, slightly modified for this image.
  reset=1960 type=formula formulafile=_p.frm
  formulaname=petals_barnsley1 passes=1
  corners=-0.771682992/-1.10764598/1.12084319/0.911969469/-0.79237028/1.14\
  842624 params=1/0.975/0.75/0/8/30 float=y maxiter=300 inside=253
  outside=summ
  colors=000<8>`A7dB7hD8<3>xHB<9>dA7b97`87<3>T55G00<9>hKAkMBnOC<3>zWG<24>P\
  63N52M42<3>G00WGG<8>nP6pQ5rR4<3>zW0<9>SF0OE0LC0<3>751C92<8>cQ3fS3iU4<3>v\
  `4<9>XM4VL3SJ3<2>KF3HD3G00<24>qPPsQQtRR<3>zWW<9>ZDDWBBU99<3>I11<9>hURkXU\
  n_W<3>xkf<9>fIGdFDbCA<3>W00G00<8>fSPiWSlZV<3>xkfigg<6>aKK`HH_DD<3>W00000\
  000
  }

ds58               { ;  (c) David Shanholtzer Sep 18, 1999 t=  0:08:50.09
                     ;  P200 MMX 1024x768
                     ; Color map: Droz 38, slightly modified for this image.
                     ; Generated by Evolver from ds57
  reset=1960 type=formula formulafile=_p.frm
  formulaname=petals_barnsley1 passes=1
  corners=-0.771682992/-1.10764598/1.12084319/0.911969469/-0.79237028/1.14\
  842624 params=0.9313638721884823/1.008722952970977/0.75/0/8/30
  float=y maxiter=300 inside=253 outside=summ
  colors=000<8>`A7dB7hD8<3>xHB<9>dA7b97`87<3>T55G00<9>hKAkMBnOC<3>zWG<24>P\
  63N52M42<3>G00WGG<8>nP6pQ5rR4<3>zW0<9>SF0OE0LC0<3>751C92<8>cQ3fS3iU4<3>v\
  `4<9>XM4VL3SJ3<2>KF3HD3G00<24>qPPsQQtRR<3>zWW<9>ZDDWBBU99<3>I11<9>hURkXU\
  n_W<3>xkf<9>fIGdFDbCA<3>W00G00<8>fSPiWSlZV<3>xkfigg<6>aKK`HH_DD<3>W00000\
  000
  }





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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 00:07:44 -0400
From: "Benjamin S. Franzus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) DOS

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<html>
I still have 6.22 DOS Setup disks.
<br>Suppose I could make copies if anyone wanted them.
<br>I still have Windows 3.1 Setup disks, also.
<br>I even have DOS games and 5.25 floppies,
<br>but I have no idea what's on them.
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 06:45:55 -0400
From: davides <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Chebyshev + evolver

Below is a Chebyshev (ds60) and 3 more using evolver on ds60:

ds60               { ;  (c) David Shanholtzer Sep 20, 1999 t=  0:01:05.03
                     ;  P200 MMX 1024x768
                     ; A Chebyshev
  reset=2000 type=formula formulafile=_l.frm formulaname=l02-01
  passes=1 center-mag=0.609965/0.567151/3.20515 params=0.385/0.0015
  float=y maxiter=1000 inside=fmod outside=real decomp=256
  colors=000VAY<8>L5NK4MJ3L<2>G1IE0GF0H<16>X5WY6XZ6Y_7Za7Z<3>e8be8bd8a<25>\
  F2FE2ED1D<3>909100<29>G00H00H00<38>q54r54s54t54u54<4>w65w65w65w65w65w65<\
  2>w65l55a45303<13>505505505606<4>708708708708709809<18>B0DB0DB0D<3>D0ED0\
  FD0FD0FD0FE0G<2>L4NO6QQ7TT9WVAY<3>eHigIljKnlLq<15>WBZ
  }

ds61               { ;  (c) David Shanholtzer Sep 20, 1999 t=  0:00:45.42
                     ;  P200 MMX 1024x768
                     ; A Chebyshev from ds60 using evolver.
  reset=2000 type=formula formulafile=_l.frm formulaname=l02-01
  passes=1 center-mag=0.609965/0.567151/3.20515
  params=-0.5047061067537462/-0.03930324716940824 float=y maxiter=1000
  inside=fmod outside=real decomp=256
  colors=G1I<6>M2NN3OP3P<7>X5WY6XZ6Y_7Za7Z<3>e8be8bd8a<25>F2FE2ED1D<3>9091\
  00<29>G00H00H00<38>q54r54s54t54u54<4>w65w65w65w65w65w65<2>w65l55a45303<1\
  3>505505505606<4>708708708708709809<18>B0DB0DB0D<3>D0ED0FD0FD0FD0FE0G<2>\
  L4NO6QQ7TT9WVAY<3>eHigIljKnlLq<14>XC_WBZVAYU9XT9W<6>L5NK4MJ3L<2>G1IE0GF0\
  H
  }

ds62               { ;  (c) David Shanholtzer Sep 20, 1999 t=  0:01:24.26
                     ;  P200 MMX 1024x768
                     ; A Chebyshev from ds60 using evolver.
  reset=2000 type=formula formulafile=_l.frm formulaname=l02-01
  passes=1 center-mag=0.609965/0.567151/3.20515
  params=-0.3376477858821375/-0.1108996704000977 float=y maxiter=1000
  inside=fmod outside=real decomp=256
  colors=VAYVAY<8>L5NK4MJ3L<2>G1IE0GF0H<16>X5WY6XZ6Y_7Za7Z<3>e8be8bd8a<25>\
  F2FE2ED1D<3>909100<29>G00H00H00<38>q54r54s54t54u54<4>w65w65w65w65w65w65<\
  2>w65l55a45303<13>505505505606<4>708708708708709809<18>B0DB0DB0D<3>D0ED0\
  FD0FD0FD0FE0G<2>L4NO6QQ7TT9WVAY<3>eHigIljKnlLq<15>WBZ
  }

ds63               { ;  (c) David Shanholtzer Sep 20, 1999 t=  0:01:36.51
                     ;  P200 MMX 1024x768
                     ; A Chebyshev from ds60 using evolver.
  reset=2000 type=formula formulafile=_l.frm formulaname=l02-01
  passes=1 center-mag=0.609965/0.567151/3.20515
  params=0.3377268288216804/-0.2026993469038972 float=y maxiter=1000
  inside=fmod outside=real decomp=256
  colors=VAYVAY<8>L5NK4MJ3L<2>G1IE0GF0H<16>X5WY6XZ6Y_7Za7Z<3>e8be8bd8a<25>\
  F2FE2ED1D<3>909100<29>G00H00H00<38>q54r54s54t54u54<4>w65w65w65w65w65w65<\
  2>w65l55a45303<13>505505505606<4>708708708708709809<18>B0DB0DB0D<3>D0ED0\
  FD0FD0FD0FE0G<2>L4NO6QQ7TT9WVAY<3>eHigIljKnlLq<15>WBZ
  }






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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 10:07:50 -0300
From: "Ricardo M. Forno" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (fractint) More on makefcfg

Tim:
I also have a 486 with DOS (and Windows 3.11), and when I tried to use
makecfg, I got the same error message.
Cheers.
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From: Tim Wegner <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 10:17 AM
Subject: (fractint) More on makefcfg


> I make a DOS boot disk under Windows 95, and booted with no
> config.sys or autoexec.bat from a floppy, and makefcfg worked, so
> the Win95 DOS must have DPMI services built in.
>
> Last night I couldn't find an earlier version DOS boot disk, but I
> must have one somewhere. The djgpp compiler comes with a
> program called cwsdpmi.exe that provides DPMI services. It is
> probably just a question of running this, however I can't test it until I
> get a DOS environment with no DPMI.
>
> What I may do it put the 22k program on my FTP site (it's free) and
> let those of you who can't run makefcfg try it. I have only had two
> reports.
>
> Tim
>
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 22:41:39 -0700
From: Mark Christenson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) v20.0 - potential bug report

Kerry Mitchell's starnear_man formula is misbehaving -
or at least behaving differently - under v20.0 compared
with v19.6.  Can anyone confirm this?


Bud


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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 01:02:41 -0500
From: "Paul N. Lee" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) v20.0 - potential bug report

Mark (Bud) Christenson wrote:
>
> Kerry Mitchell's starnear_man formula is misbehaving -
> or at least behaving differently - under v20.0 compared
> with v19.6.  Can anyone confirm this?
>

Any particular PAR/s ??


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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 03:30:00 -0300
From: "Nemo Nox" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) fractint newbie questions

Hi, All!

What better way to present yourself to the list than
a couple of newbie questions? <grin> So here they go...

* I have organized my FRM, IFS, L, MAP and PAR files,
each flavour in its own directory, and my SSTOOLS.INI
reflects this with the parameters FORMULAFILE, IFSFILE,
LFILE and PARMFILE. But how do I make Fractint find my
MAP files?

* I am used to RGB settings ranging from 0 to 255, and
the system used by Fractint still confuses me a bit. Are
there any translation tables available anywhere?

Well, I guess I have to warn you: if you show kindness
to newbies and answer to my questions, there is a big
chance I will send more. <grin> Thanks in advance!

Nemonoxian greetings,

Nemo Nox
http://nemonox.homepage.com/



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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 06:27:57 -0400
From: davides <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) v20.0 - potential bug report

At 01:02 AM 9/21/1999 -0500, you wrote:

>Mark (Bud) Christenson wrote:

>>

>> Kerry Mitchell's starnear_man formula is misbehaving -

>> or at least behaving differently - under v20.0 compared

>> with v19.6.  Can anyone confirm this?

>>

>

>Any particular PAR/s ??



I can confirm that there is a difference. Below are two pars. CAUTION:
(1) When pasting the pars the color lines were breaking as if not enough
room, although screen font size is "9" (New Courier), and number of
characters is set to 80. Should have been enough.  I have manually
widened the screen, how that will effect the reception as far as not
having the line split I am not sure.  (2) Note that in the second par I
have the formula file as "kmitchel.frm" rather than s.frm.


=================================================================================================


<fontfamily><param>Times New Roman</param>ds67               { ;  (c)
David Shanholtzer Sep 21, 1999 t=  0:01:34.96

                     ;  P200 MMX 1024x768

  reset=2000 type=formula formulafile=_s.frm formulaname=starnear_man

  center-mag=-1.905e-006/1.0165e-005/0.6666712 params=1/1/0.8/1

  float=y decomp=256


colors=00000e0e00eee00e0eeL0eeeLLLLLzLzLLzzzLLzLzzzLzzz000555<<3>HHHKKKOO\


O<<3>ccchhhmmmssszzz00z<<3>z0z<<3>z00<<3>zz0<<3>0z0<<3>0zz<<2>0GzVVz<<3>zVz<<3>zV\


V<<3>zzV<<3>VzV<<3>Vzz<<2>Vbzhhz<<3>zhz<<3>zhh<<3>zzh<<3>hzh<<3>hzz<<2>hlz00S<<3>S0\


S<<3>S00<<3>SS0<<3>0S0<<3>0SS<<2>07SEES<<3>SES<<3>SEE<<3>SSE<<3>ESE<<3>ESS<<2>EHSKK\


S<<2>QKSSKSSKQSKOSKMSKK<<2>SQKSSKQSKOSKMSKKSK<<2>KSQKSSKQSKOSKMS00G<<3>G0G<<3\


>G00<<3>GG0<<3>0G0<<3>0GG<<2>04G88G<<2>E8GG8GG8EG8CG8AG88<<2>GE8GG8EG8CG8AG88G\


8<<2>8GE8GG8EG8CG8AGBBG<<2>FBGGBGGBFGBDGBCGBB<<2>GFBGGBFGBDGBCGBBGB<<2>BGFBG\

  GBFGBDGBCG000<<6>000

  }


=========================================================================================


star               { ;  (c) David Shanholtzer Sep 21, 1999 t=
0:01:44.47

                     ;  P200 MMX 1024x768

  reset=1960 type=formula formulafile=kmitchel.frm

  formulaname=starnear_man

  center-mag=-1.905e-006/1.0165e-005/0.6666712 params=1/1/0.8/1

  float=y decomp=256


colors=00000e0e00eee00e0eeL0eeeLLLLLzLzLLzzzLLzLzzzLzzz000555<<3>HHHKKKOO\


OSSSWWW___ccchhhmmmssszzz00z<<3>z0z<<3>z00<<3>zz0<<3>0z0<<3>0zz<<2>0GzVVz<<3>zV\


z<<3>zVV<<3>zzV<<3>VzV<<3>Vzz<<2>Vbzhhz<<3>zhz<<3>zhh<<3>zzh<<3>hzh<<3>hzz<<2>hlz00\


S<<3>S0S<<3>S00<<3>SS0<<3>0S0<<3>0SS<<2>07SEES<<3>SES<<3>SEE<<3>SSE<<3>ESE<<3>ESS<<2\


>EHSKKS<<2>QKSSKSSKQSKOSKMSKK<<2>SQKSSKQSKOSKMSKKSK<<2>KSQKSSKQSKOSKMS00G<<3\


>G0G<<3>G00<<3>GG0<<3>0G0<<3>0GG<<2>04G88G<<2>E8GG8GG8EG8CG8AG88<<2>GE8GG8EG8CG\


8AG88G8<<2>8GE8GG8EG8CG8AGBBG<<2>FBGGBGGBFGBDGBCGBB<<2>GFBGGBFGBDGBCGBBGB<<2\

  >BGFBGGBFGBDGBCG000<<6>000

  }






</fontfamily>

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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:07:28 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (fractint) fractint newbie questions

Welcome to the list Nemo:

>>>* I have organized my FRM, IFS, L, MAP and PAR files,
each flavour in its own directory, and my SSTOOLS.INI
reflects this with the parameters FORMULAFILE, IFSFILE,
LFILE and PARMFILE. But how do I make Fractint find my
MAP files?<<<

The same way as FRM, IFS, etc., e.g.:
map=c:\fractint\mymaps

>>>* I am used to RGB settings ranging from 0 to 255, and
the system used by Fractint still confuses me a bit. Are
there any translation tables available anywhere?<<<

If you look inside a fractint MAP file you will notice that it defines colors in
0 to 255 RGB triplets as do most 24 bit systems. However, if you look more
closely you will see that all the numbers are divisible by 4. This gives you
only 262144 to choose from. This is the number of colors that were available on
the original VGA video cards for DOS. Also, as you probably already know,
fractint is limited to a pallete of only 256 colors at a time, so you will see
256 triplets in a map file. I don't think fractint will crash if you put a
number in a map file that is not divisible by 4 - it will just round it off.
Does this answer your question? If not, please email me.

Nick



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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:55:07 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (fractint) evolver

There is a new expression in fractint discussions *evolver*. Can anybody
please tell us oldfashioned 19.6 users what it means and what it is all about?
Thanks.
Marie-Luise Beyer

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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:56:38 -0300
From: "Ricardo M. Forno" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) RE: Bug in the evolver

Robin:
Did you receive the .par and the files I sent you some days ago?
Could you spot the problem?
Thanks again.
- ----- Original Message -----
From: <[e-mail]>
To: Ricardo M. Forno <[e-mail]>
Cc: <[e-mail]>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 11:08 PM
Subject: RE: Bug in the evolver


>
> Hi Ricardo,
>
> >Once the thumbnails where displayed, I typed Ctrl-E to change "yes"
> >to "no" in order to see the image,
>
> BTW, 'b' works as a shortcut for this whilst in the evolver.
>
> >without having moved to some other thumbnail.
> Hmmmm.. does the same happen if you move to another and then back
> again?
>
> >The image was totally changed, but when typing z, the parameters
> >strangely were the same as the initial ones!
>
> Now that is very bizzare, though you should also check the x screen to
> see
> that some radically different inside or outside colouring method hasn't
> been selected.
>
> If you can make this happen consistantly then it would help me sort
> things out if you could mail me a par for the starting image or if you
> hit S just after the first set of images is generated and then mail me
> the file that was saved.
>
> Cheers,
>          Robin.


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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 0:19 0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: (fractint) evolver

Hi Marie,

>There is a new expression in fractint discussions *evolver*. Can
anybody
>please tell us oldfashioned 19.6 users what it means and what it is all
about?

The evolver (or parameter evolver / explorer to give it it's full title) is a
new addition to fractint which enables the erstwhile fractanaut to map
out the effects of changing parameters on a fractal.
It will put onscreen many small versions of the base image with
parameters changed so that the user can explore the way in which
the fractal varies when things are changed on the X,Y,Z menus.
This can be done in an orderly fashion with parameters varying
smoothly
across the screen to form a map of parameter space which can be
zoomed
into and explored.
Alternatively there is evolving mode where everything is varied at
random and the user just needs to pick the image variation that they
like the best to use as the seed for another generation of images.
Things can be set up so that the amout of random mutation from one
generation to the next is reduced in order to fine tune things.

The evolver is really best seen rather than explained so why not
download
v20.0 now and check out the demos included!

Hope this tempts you :-)
                                 Robin.



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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 0:29 0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: (fractint) RE: Bug in the evolver

Hi Ricardo,

>Did you receive the .par and the files I sent you some days ago?
>Could you spot the problem?

Yep, thanks,  I haven't had a chance to go bug hunting yet though but
rest assured I'll get round to it soon, have you found any similar
probems since or is it just that one image?

Cheers,
         Robin.


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Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 21:21:46 -0300
From: "Eu" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Contest

> HI, Damien.
> The pages are great, but is there a more simple way to download the entire
> site? In college, where I have a fast conection, I don┤t have permission
to
> isntall Getright or other progs, couldn┤t you zip the categories and put a
> link to it? I really wnat to vote, but conection time here in Brazil is
> still expensive :-).
> But it┤s just a suggestion.
> I really enjoye the site!
>
> Bresslau
>
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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 21:31:40 -0300
From: "Eu" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Fw: sound pars

 I just managed to setup sound on my system, and liked the sound-demo. Has
 anybody spent some time in a sound par? Could someone send me one so I can
 hear what fractint is capable of?
 Thanks from Brazil,
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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:57:02 -0500
From: "Damien M. Jones" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Contest

Bresslau,

>> The pages are great, but is there a more simple way to download the
>> entire site?

Yes, as soon as I get the CD set up, burned, and mailed out to the
volunteer duplicators, I can get the files zipped up and available for
download. It's a big download, too; 75M when all zipped together.

Damien M. Jones   \\
[e-mail]  \\  Fractalus Galleries & Info:
                    \\  http://www.fractalus.com/

Please do not post my e-mail address on a web site or
in a newsgroup.  Thank you.

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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 20:24:46 -0500
From: "Damien M. Jones" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Fractal-Art '99 Contest

Greetings folks,

A few technical problems with the marking/unmarking mechanism, especially
with regards to Netscape, have been fixed. Thanks to several people (but
especially Ken Childress) for bringing these problems to my attention.

Voting is now fully functional. You may submit your votes and you should
receive a confirmation code via e-mail. You must then mail back that
confirmation code for your vote to be registered.

CDs will be sent out to volunteer duplicators tomorrow, so they should
start appearing in mailboxes next week. Several people have ordered, I will
see if I can start confirming receipt of these tomorrow.

Damien M. Jones   \\
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                    \\  http://www.fractalus.com/

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in a newsgroup.  Thank you.

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