David M Fisher wrote:
The best solution would be a program which first would enter place holders within the map file so that all maps would be uniform, then run a comparison for sequence of RGB values regardless of place.
This is a really great idea!! But, as Jonathan already mentioned, it would not have any effect on the thousands of .MAP files that already exist. And with so many already available, no way to easily create a utility to update the older files, even if this was implemented today. And it would mean that all of the other applications that can use FractInt .MAP files would also need to be modified by their author's (and that is several programs). Too bad this had not been in place within FractInt at least 15 (or more) years ago.
I wonder how many map files on people's drives are actually duplicates, with the only difference being sequence?
In some instances, probably quite a few. Sincerely, P.N.L. ------------------------------------------------- http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/PNL_Fractals.html http://www.Nahee.com/Fractals/