Timothy Wegner wrote:
I just got the following email....
I recently purchased a vintage Dell laptop running windows 95 from eBay. It is not working for him. My father seems to remember a command using the keystroke B which removes the color from the fractal and only leaves an outline. He then imports this image into Windows Paint in order to resize it for the canvas.
I would think a Windows-98-SE environment would be better, as long as the graphics card was decent and capable. As to only having the outline of an image, and importing that into a graphic editor such as Microsoft's Paint, this does not seem like the best way. It sounds like what he wants to do is go from a raster type of image to a vector type, so that resizing would keep the original shapes without becoming pixelated. And I have done something similar many times. As to the "B" command... Boundary Tracing ("b"), which only works accurately with fractal types (such as the Mandelbrot set, but not the Newton type) that do not contain "islands" of colors, finds a color boundary, traces it around the screen, and then "blits" in the color over the enclosed area. Sincerely, P.N.L.