Hal Asked:
A question: I have never known what the axis symmetry named: (XAXIS_NOPARM) [in your example formula] actually does. It is listed in the 20.0 docs but no explanation is given.
Jonathan is in Colorado. He'll be back soon. I am actually going to see him soon because for the first time in years I am driving not flying to Minnesota from Texas. I will see Jonathan in Iowa either coming or going on my way to or from my mother's memorial service. Suppose you have a fractal that is symmetrical with respect to the x axis if the paramaters are zero but not otherwise. Then XAXIS_NPPARM would give you what you want. If you enter a parameter, exploitation of symmetry is turned off.
I also don't understand right off what: XAXIS_NOREAL and XAXIS_NOIMAG do.
Same idea - I presume the NOREAL means the real part of the first parameter, I'd have to look to see but I'm lazy :-)
Perhaps there should be descriptions in the docs of what the more obscure symmetries do, since some of them are non-intuitive -- at least to me...
Once you figure it out write it up and we'll put it in the docs :-) Tim