Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: Fractals Everywhere

Author:	Jeremy Bowers
Posted:	7/7/2000; 8:55:20 PM
Topic:	Fractals Everywhere
Msg #:	18387 (In response to 18378)
Prev/Next:	18386 / 18388

If you want to play with Fractals, you must play with FractINT. Warning, this program will eat arbitrary amounts of computer and human time.

I first used this program on a 486/33 megahertz... I don't even want to imagine how quickly a near-gigahertz machine will render fractals that used to take me hours. Fractint's my informal machine benchmark... I used to watch a machine render the Madelbrot set at 1024x768 to get a feel for how quickly the machine worked. I had to raise the bar when my 233 had the thing rendered before the monitor was done switching from standard text mode to the hi-res mode.

Version 20's out now, and there haven't been any shananigans with the versioning, either. It's an old program, and very good.

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