Rich, This par has periodicity=0, so the next statements don't matter. Periodicity uses the value of z to determine when to bailout. The Mystic2 formula uses LastSqr for determining when to bailout, which in this instance is g.x^2 + g.y^2. Therefore, periodicity would calculate bailout based on the wrong variable. There *is* a problem with the Xfractint formula parser. Try setting inside=zmag with this par. I get a segmentation fault. Also, for some reason the inside= options are not bailing out with the correct iteration count. This ties back to the problem seen in the colors with The_Layered_Look. The reset=NNNN option only works for changes done internally to Fractint, and only if we build in the backwards compatibility. Jonathan
OK, well I was just trying to understand more concretely your |z| comment. I tried adding |z| to the last line, but it didn't seem to make any difference in the image.
Besides, I thought the whole reset=NNNN thing was designed to handle backwards compatability?