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#What is MUI?

    29-Jul-94 03:32:33
Sb: #What is MUI?
Fm: daniel wolf 70250,626
To: Michael Shea 76665,3360
What is an MUI? I've seen Fractint on the PC machines – lots of formulae (FractalPro has 10 for now, but maybe more in the future) but SLOWWWWWWWWW…. generating the images! FractalPro is 100% assembly language and optimized for math chips and 040 systems so it goes very fast compared to just about any Fractal program I've ever seen on any system. It doesn't take shortcuts with image quality to 'fake' fast rendering, either. For fast exploration, users of FractalPro can simply use the 320×200 resolution and then switch to, say, 768×480 for video quality output of selected images or animation sequences. For those animation modes for which it is possible, FractalPro does use the Amiga blitter chip to simply move most of the image and just fill in a narrow strip to create the next image in a sequence (most panning modes work this way). When doing a 'left' motion pan, for example, FractalPro can generate a series of up to hundreds of images per hour – and it even handles the elimination of HAM streaks correctly when doing so. FractalPro does have a full GUI (lots of buttons to click on, PLUS menu items with keyboard shortcuts for the buttons, PLUS ARexx complete control over all functions) – basically a 3-way interface