Albrecht, You asked for my observations on the color maps used in your MOTD images for March 3, 2014. I liked the brass-like colors in your 70100-10.GIF fractal "Prayer_to_the_Moon" quite a bit. The fractal itself looks (to me) like a brass scepter with tiny, tiny precious stones -- and a few pearls -- embedded in the brass all over it. The background behind the scepter is variegated in a nice way, and seems a bit like a piece of parchment. A very nice image! Here's its color map in Raymond Filiatreault's FintMap program: http://tinyurl.com/Prayer-to-the-moon-Color-map or: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/Albrecht/MFR12/M70100-10_Prayer-to-the-moon_ Color-map.jpg The color map for 70105-16.GIF is very strange! It has both single colors scattered around the color map -- within an large black area of color definitions -- with the other half of the map being a repeating pattern of every other color being defined as: dark gray, then light gray. Here's its odd color map screen captured from the "e" color editor: http://tinyurl.com/Newton-Secant-ManyMods-Strange or: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/Albrecht/MFR12/M70105-16_Newton-Secant-ManyM ods_Strange_Color-map2.jpg I discovered a trick today that I hadn't realized you could do with the "e" color editor. After "r"estoring your 70100-10 image I had downloaded, I used the editor's "x" option. Previously I had used the arrow keys to look around in an image (in the "X" mode) to see where a feature's colors were located in the color map table -- and what their numerical R, G, & B values were. Today I discovered that, since I have a DOS mouse driver installed in the DOS ntvdm.exe environment, in the "X" mode I can "mouse around" both over the image *or* inside the color map table of colors, and the entire fractal will be black except for the particular color that the cursor is over in the color map table. Moving the cursor around inside the color map is very instructive, as it very clearly shows exactly what colors are where in the fractal. While in the "X" mode, all the colors in the table are all black except for the one you are hovering the cursor over, but you can get the context of where you are in the color map by hitting the "x" key to restore the map and fractal -- and then hitting it again to return to your investigations of the fractal's color's locations. - Hal Lane ######################## # hallane@earthlink.net ######################## --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com