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From: minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar,(???))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: "Mandelbrot 3" software
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Date: 3 Jul 90 18:11:00 GMT
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(if all I am doing is starting a flame war, lets move this into email.
But I really feel like someone is trying to pull wool over my eyes)

In article <4849@darkstar.ucsc.edu> hermit@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (William R.
Ward) writes:

>
>All this talk about FRACTINT...
> [Mandelbrot 3 does..]
>	1) Walker: skip over large black areas entirely by defining the
>	edge of such areas first.
>	2) incremental drawing: Instead of doing a fully detailed draw,
>	from the top of the screen to the bottom, or whatever, it does
>	first every 8th pixel, then every 4th, then every 2nd, then
>	every pixel.  So you see what you get before it's done.
>	3) color cycling: produce very psychadelic images by having the
>	colors shift through the entire pallette.  This is especially
>	amazing in 256-color mode, with a spiral-shaped zoom.
>	4) mouse interface.. very intuitive and easy to use.

  Again, fractint does all these things, fast. It is a neat program.
Its also got millions of other nifty features I won't bother to
enumerate here, as it is trivially easy to get a fully working copy for
free (thats pd:<msdos.graphics>frain13r.zip on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil)

>
>FRACTINT is not the competition for Mandelbrot 3... M3 is a commercial,
>for-profit, you-can't-copy-this program.

  I think its the other way around, honestly.  Fractint does more than
M3 will, and it does it for free.  Why would someone buy a
less-featured commercial program?