CompuServe Messages

Well, I DO like FractalPro 4.0 a lot. [there are features I would like to see, but since I didn't write in asking for them, I cannot complain 🙂 ] The centered Vista feature would be very nice; but as (more?) important is the aspect correction. Oval versions of the set are just not toooo attractive in Vista for some reason. I can imagine several ways to do it, but I'll leave it to you. How am I doing 256 color images using Vista/HAM-E? Easy. I just parse your FractalPro/Vista file using ARexx, find the heights of each 258×258 points, and send it to HAM-E RegPaint via ARexx. Sending points over via ARexx is not too fast (it can take 15-30 mins to plot a picture), but it works fine. Processing via ARexx also allows nice color effects as well, such as scaling the data, blurring boundaries, etc. I think I uploaded an early version of the program to Ben's BBS; maybe I'll send up a later version soon. (I think the pics are pretty nice. Verrry smooth coloring in the boundary areas; look particularly nice with cycling) I'm thinking of just directly converting your data over to a HAM-E IFF image, rather than going through REGPaint's rexx port. Would be much faster. But I wanted to experiment with the rexx port, so I made my first cut that way. By the way, my first version of HAM-E mandelbrots didn't use FractalPro at all. I did all the mandelbrot calculations in the ARexx program, and sent them over to REG Paint directly after done. It worked fine. Well…. it was also sssssllllloooooowwwwww. It took 3-4 hours for one medium-size image, at 100 iterations. That's when I thought of using FractalPro's VISTA files as source, and just plotting the data differently. Thanks for your comments on TASS. I'll check out the newer versions. –jp–seattle–