> I have fractint too. I have no idea what all that junk means, but I absolutly LOVE it! I make the most beautiful pictures with it. Someday I'll make a page with my fractals on it. I'm 12 so I just plain don't know what all those numbers mean, but what the heck it's fun.

Have you ever played with the .PAR files? I can't remember how to get to them in the Dos ver, but in WinFractint, you go to the files menu, go down to "Read @Batchfile...", and choose "Fractint.par". You'll see other images that other people have generated, from Batman to Tonsils to Yinfinite to Hypnoteyes... the one called "Shell" is my most favorite, as it looks like a totally organic--um, something. Not sure, exactly, because Winfract doesn't support the skewed zoom-box feature, and some of the PARs come out looking skewed as a result.

Now, if you want to hear something _really_ interesting, go into the Basic Options menu, and play with the iterations... the fewer there are, the less complex the picture is. The more iterations, the greater the complexity, right? Well, take a really cool fractal, and make a whole bunch of renderings from the smallest to the greatest, run them through an animation program, and watch the movie as the fractals "grow"... it's a really neat experience. Looks like a cross between roots growing into the ground and ink being injected into some sort of oily substance.

I got carried away with that idea, ended up with 30 megs of fractal GIFs, and then couldn't find an animator that could handle that many frames at that res (it was 800 X 600 at 256 colors, over 30 frames per sec, and I had a _lot_ of frames). Hit a bunch of memory problems (on a system with 64 megs of memory... but WinNT is such a mem hog!) Anyway, what I ended up with was a bunch of piecemeal AVIs... you watch one just enough to get you hooked, and then it ends, and then you have to open the next one, and watch that one for a bit, and so on.) It was a deep-zoom mandelbrot, and I really miss it (filled up a ZIP disk with an entire segmented animation)

Oh well, all pass things must good away, I suppose. Guess it serves me right for my over-ambition... but it woulda' been good! ;-)

-John W.

"32) When a person is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head, they will
never suffer a concussion or brain damage."
- Things You Would Never Know Without the Movies