From: "Morgan L. Owens" Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 10:04 AM (Formula cut and pasted into a .frm file...)
Quite probably so; I hope no-one thought I was disparaging the formula parser - I was just pointing out one way it could be improved (and who would claim that it couldn't be?) The precalc test could also be added to the above formula.
No, what I really was driving at is that at first the parser certainly was just there to provide basic customization: If one wanted a different iteration formula, a different pixel initialization routine, a different bailout test, it was there, no more. Extending it in (then) unexpected ways stood a good chance of producing shortcomings (I mean, the whole program has grown like that and the developers now have to wrestle with what has become of it)... Regards, Gerald