On 5/2/07, Richard <legalize@xmission.com> wrote:

In article <546ce4c30705012157g171b82f1q2992120db09e8a39@mail.gmail.com >,
   "Tony Hanmer" <a.hanmer@gmail.com>  writes:

> 4.  Removal of some limitations (I've mentioned this before; not the highest
> priority, but not too difficult to implement either I think, once Fractint
> migrates from DOS).  Namely, *.l file limit of 2000 entries (Hanmer Tiles
> are infinite in number...), and L-system programming string limit of 256
> characters (I think that's the current limit) (Hanmer Tile programming can
> lead to very long strings).

This can be done for the next beta.

> 6.  IF-THEN programming.  There are all sorts of possibilities for this,
> most of which I probably am not informed enough to imagine.  Again, they
> would greatly extend L-systems programming.

Can you provide some sort of specification of how this would affect
the L-system grammar?  I have seen probabilistic L-systems and other
extensions of continuous parameters into L-systems done by
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz in his SIGGRAPH papers and books, but I don't
recall him introducing a conditional extension.

> 7.  3d is perhaps not more than a dream or a distant goal, if anything.

Do you mean 3D a la P.P.'s extensions?  Can you elaborate on this a
little more?
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