On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, David Jones wrote: (...)
You're welcome. Of course, when it's doing that, that's ALL it's doing. Fractint at its fastest - no multitasking! 8-)
The nub of mentioning this is that if you were multitasking e-mail or IRC composition while you were rendering a fractal, then your CPU load would be practically nil for the e-mail and IRC tasks, so that if you started a tesseral rendering before you started writing a message, then it would likely be finished long before you hit the send key. Surfing the web might be different, because decompressing JPEGs is fairly computing intensive, but twenty years ago, you could be using an instruction processor that ran at 8Mhz and supported a hundred users and you wouldn't notice their load until it was under 95% idle...which was mostly before eleven and before three in the day. Today, it's more like one user and a CPU that's over 99% idle (unless it has broadband internet or a large collection of DVDs, in which case it is likely very busy at the task of corrupting people). _______ Computers do a lot of work -- a lot of work that doesn't need doing. --Michael Litwyn ------- MandelBroh { z=fn1(pixel), c=fn2(pixel): z=z^real(P1) +c |z| <= imag(P1) } Fireworks { ; Anybody got a better way to see only the orbits? ; Symmetry assertion doesn't work due to persistent, ; infinitesimal skew. reset=2003 type=formula formulafile=fire.par formulaname=mandelbroh function=ident/conj passes=t center-mag=-0.455826/0/0.6835187/1.181/90/3.88578058618804789e-016 params=-2/16 float=y maxiter=255 inside=255 proximity=-0.025 outside=fmod symmetry=xaxis periodicity=0 showorbit=yes colors=@altern.map }