Patch 6 to Fractint version 20.4
Patch 6 to Fractint version 20.4 is now available on the Fractint Developer's web sites: www.fractint.org or www.fractint.net This is unrelated to Rich's port. What's new: Added Per Image Settings to the formula parser. When initially selected from the fractal type formula screen, the symmetry and any per image settings are enforced. The per image settings will be saved to PARs and GIFs, and can be changed from the appropriate screen. The possible values for per image settings are the same as the parameters that appear in PAR files, with the exception of 'params='. Params can't be set in the per image settings section, because they get set to zero when the formula is parsed. The formula syntax looks like this: mandel(symmetry)[per image settings] { per pixel settings: iteration bailout } For example: IslandOfChaos(XAXIS_NOPARM)[float=y function=sqr/sin/cosxx] {; Jonathan Osuch ; Generalized by Tobey J. E. Reed [76437,375] ; Try p1=0, p2=4, fn1=sqr, fn2=sin, fn3=cosxx ; Note: use floating point z = p1, x = 1: IF (x < 10) z=fn1(z) + pixel ELSE z=fn2(z) / fn3(z) + pixel ENDIF x = x+1, |z| <= p2 } Jonathan
First, for lurkers, Jonathan and I met on June 15th in Iowa while I was on my way to my mother's memorial service in Minnesota. My wife and I had dinner with Jonathan, his wife, and his daughter. We had a great time. We've only met one time before quite a few years ago when Jonathan and his family drove all the way from Cedar Rapids to highway 35 north of Des Moines to meet us. This time we headed east and met up in Jonathan's home in a northeaster Cedar Rapids suburb. The main decision from our conversation was to release fractint, xfractint, and winfract at essentially the current patchlevel. You've done a tremendous amount of work getting three versions synched up (more or less), truly amazing! Some questions for Jonathan: 1. What version? The last official release was 20.0. The help file mentions versions like 20.4, or did you mean 20.04. Is the next version 20.1? Or 20.5? or since nearly a decade has gone by, maybe a major version to 21.0 is justified :-). 2. If we follow the style of previous releases, we should consolidate the patchelevel change history in the revision history and remove references to patches. I could do this, though you would need to check it. 3. I need to very quickly decide about the new fractal type that you know I am working on. 4. Have there been any additions to debugfla.txt? It mentions being complete as of version 20. I'm sure there are more questions that I'll think of later. Tim
Tim Wegner wrote:
1. What version? The last official release was 20.0. The help file mentions versions like 20.4, or did you mean 20.04. Is the next version 20.1? Or 20.5? or since nearly a decade has gone by, maybe a major version to 21.0 is justified :-).
If you care about an opinion from any of the users of this list, I would say the next Official Release should be 20.5 Sincerely, P.N.L. ------------------------------------------------- http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/PNL_Fractals.html http://www.Nahee.com/Fractals/
Hey guys, take it easy. If you're not careful floating point math will have to be turned on, then we'll all die waiting for the next version number to be calculated...... Paddy
-----Original Message----- From: fractint-bounces+padski=padski.com@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:fractint-bounces+padski=padski.com@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Paul N. Lee Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 3:41 AM To: fractint@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Fractint] Patch 6 to Fractint version 20.4
Tim Wegner wrote:
1. What version? The last official release was 20.0. The help file mentions versions like 20.4, or did you mean 20.04. Is the next version 20.1? Or 20.5? or since nearly a decade has gone by, maybe a major version to 21.0 is justified :-).
If you care about an opinion from any of the users of this list, I would say the next Official Release should be 20.5
Sincerely, P.N.L. ------------------------------------------------- http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/PNL_Fractals.html http://www.Nahee.com/Fractals/
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