Sherlock, I have to admit I'm not really sure what you mean (what does Microsoft have to do with anything?). I thought Gnofract 4D's existence might be of interest to some XFractint users, for the reasons in my original mail. I think an XFractint/Gnofract4D merge (if that's what you're suggesting) would be very difficult since the code-bases are basically unrelated. Regards, -- Edwin PS Gnofract 4D's out of beta and currently on version 2.2 ----- Original Message ----- From: "SherLok Merfy" <brewhaha@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> To: "Fractint and General Fractals Discussion" <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Cc: <edwin@bathysphere.org> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 2:20 AM Subject: Re: Seeking beta testers for gnofract 4D
On 6 Jun 2004, Edwin wrote: (...)
Brief feature list: - GTK-based GUI (screenshots at: http://gnofract4d.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html) - 24bit color and antialiasing - named parameters + separate colorfuncs as in UltraFractal
Obviously there are many Fractint features which are NOT supported, including logmap, stereo, 3D, L-systems, DOS or Windows support, periodicity-checking, IFS, etc, etc.
Before I presume to speak for Stone Soup, you'll notice that FRACTINT/DOS comes with a necessarily incomplete list of contributors, including e-mail addresses, and that there is an XWindows version of FRACTINT. Depending on some wrangling you might want to pursue with the developers, especially Tim Wegner and Jason Osuch...
M$ likes talking about integration. What they are talking about, really, is collaboration that they've been denied in the courtroom. Jason Osuch compiled the last release of FRACTINT/DOS that I know of, and last time I read anything about it, he was having trouble maintaining his operating system. (Aren't we all?!)
Try giving him a summary of what you've done with gnofract besides reinvent the wheel. Perhaps XFractint can be an alias for gnofract, but like I said, there are people who might want to steer besides me.