maybe you have an answer ! I have the answer. The format of the .GIF image file must be corrupted in some way in the color map table.
If you Reload <R> the image (as I did) and type <e> <Enter> to open the Color Editor, and then repeatedly type the period key "." look carefully and you will see that Fractint is only rotating/shifting the bottom/lowest 16 colors -- not all 256. The only way that this could happen in so many different versions of Fractint is for the format of the color map inside the image file itself to be nonstandard in some way, that makes Fractint only rotate the bottom 16 colors. The reason that 58484-54.GIF shows no rotation in the image at all, is that the image has no pixels colored with the bottom 16 colors of the color map -- 16 shades of "gold". In the <e> <Enter> the Color Editor, typing repeated "." "Rotate Color Map One Step" commands shows the bottom 16 "gold" colors rotating -- but there are no pixels of those 16 "gold" colors in the image to be rotated, so the image doesn't change at all. I Reloaded <R> both images (58484-54.GIF and 58484-55.GIF) into both these Fractint versions: - Richard's Fractint for Windows beta 5, and - Jonathan's 2018-01-26 SDL2-fractint-20.05alpha and got identical results -- only the bottom 16 colors of the color map can be rotated. The item common to both these tests is your image file that I downloaded from your Dropbox. What version of Fractint was used to write out these images you have in your Dropbox? ⇐ ⇐ - Hal Lane ######################## # mailto:hallane@earthlink.net ######################## From: Albrecht Niekamp [mailto:xxfractalist@outlook.com] Sent: Saturday, February 3, 2018 9:33 AM To: Harold Lane <hallane@earthlink.net> Subject: fwdd to Hal maybe you have an answer ! -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Fractint] The Riddle Datum: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 13:29:05 +0100 Von: Albrecht Niekamp mailto:xxfractalist@outlook.com An: mailto:fractint@mailman.xmission.com The Riddle ; If you dig into the sand of 58484-05 you will find all kinds of hidden treasures and surprises. Images 9,10,15,18 and others have proven it. This I had in mind when I programmed the latest version af MFR and especially the new warpeffect two years ago : to turn Fractint into a fantastic fractal toy. Today I found a special surprise: An image where only the middle part is available for color cycling. This is NOT a fractint error, if copied it into the SVN dosbox it still can be modified and zoomed into, but the riddle remains, even if generated from a par. The zoom, taken from the outer parts has no colorcycling at all but they can be switched by changing the map. The question goes out to Jonathan - can you analyze what´s happening here? It is not the cycle range command ! Thank you! ; https://1drv.ms/f/s!AmWYApv7ZBFGgZxUvwzqa1NAwyP0jg ; Albrecht -----------------------------------------------Start Par------------------- 58484-54 { ; The Riddle_Zoom ; Warp_Nine Zoom ; timr 0.12.08.03 Reso 1280/1024 ; No Color Cycling !! reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=mfr_14.frm formulaname=mfr_14_2 function=sin/exp/tan/cosh passes=t center-mag=-31.50406209595512000/+0.01268013338297641/6.040577e+008/1/10\ 7.499906879403667/7.160778639330595e-005 params=1.42593798638874/0.444792016357921/58484.09595701157/51222.050603\ 0602/150248.0404808025/384.1604894022/384.00482000595/1280.1000763001/19\ 20.1002393001/2560.1003293001 float=y maxiter=3072 inside=maxiter outside=tdis logmap=yes periodicity=0 rseed=-2436 cyclerange=1/15 sound=off colors=000<2>110110000KA4<7>gcOjgRmjT<3>zzc<9>UOFRKDOGA<3>A00<9>f0Ci0Dl0\ F<3>z0K<6>Z0EV0DR0C<3>A08004000<26>000<4>000<7>Q0UU0YX0a_0dc0hf0l<2>p0w<\ 4>_0dX0aU0Y<2>K0NH0JG0NE1R<3>7UX6`Z4h_2oa0wc<10>2WI2TG2RE<3>4G54D36F5<16\
kkammcpoe<3>zwm<3>mhZjdVfaS<3>VMCRI8OE4KA0000<43>000<4>000330<12>110 } 58484-55 { ; The Riddle ; Warp_Nine Zoom ; timr 0.12.10.64 Reso 1280/1024 ; Only partial color cycling !! reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=mfr_14.frm formulaname=mfr_14_2 function=sin/exp/tan/cosh passes=t center-mag=-31.50406209708214000/+0.01268008960342866/2.580317e+007/1/62\ .5000018667177528/-2.16989731266492569e-006 params=1.42593798638874/0.444792016357921/58484.09595701157/51222.050603\ 0602/150248.0404808025/384.1604894022/384.00482000595/1280.1000763001/19\ 20.1002393001/2560.1003293001 float=y maxiter=3072 inside=maxiter outside=tdis logmap=yes periodicity=0 rseed=-2436 cyclerange=1/15 sound=off colors=000jgR<3>wv`zzcwva<8>UOFRKDOGA<3>A00<9>f0Ci0Dl0F<3>z0K<6>Z0EV0DR0\ C<3>A08004000<26>000<4>000<7>Q0UU0YX0a_0dc0hf0l<2>p0w<4>_0dX0aU0Y<2>K0NH\ 0JG0NE1R<3>7UX6`Z4h_2oa0wc<10>2WI2TG2RE<3>4G54D36F5<16>kkammcpoe<3>zwm<3\ mhZjdVfaS<3>VMCRI8OE4KA0000<43>000<4>000330<6>220220220<3>110000110<2>0\ 00KA4<7>gcO }
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