Re: [Fractint] An Ultimate Par File Collection?
Hee hee... that's what most people think. But why not? This is the Internet after all. I actually got the moniker from something completely benign. As for the ultimate par file collection, I grabbed the two other sets on Paul's site. I then expanded everything I have, and those and with a duplicate finder eliminated exact duplicate files. However, there are many that differ by just one byte that don't get picked up this way. The result is having to examine quite a few files by hand which I haven't yet done. Plus many pars are actually in the Discussion List collection but that is at a level hard to detect other than by brute force. I decided to let previous collections like the spanky "Various Artists", Jo Webers Compuserve collection, Fracxtr6, and the Discussion list intact so there will remain a few duplicates within those but not many. One thing which is of issue is that some Pars refer to a specific map which doesn't exist and Fractint chokes. Rather than amass a map collection, might it not be better to notify the default map is used instead and show the fractal anyway? Roger
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Vortex Swirling wrote:
An alias that reminds me of how interested Gremlin used to be in the toilet.
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Hi Roger, I had same problems at that times - it's many years ago. Go to my website and load maps as much as you want, I'm sure you will find a lot of the missing maps. Cheers --Jo(chen) Weber http://www.joweber.de/download/maps_frames.htm Vortex Swirling schrieb:
Hee hee... that's what most people think. But why not? This is the Internet after all. I actually got the moniker from something completely benign.
As for the ultimate par file collection, I grabbed the two other sets on Paul's site. I then expanded everything I have, and those and with a duplicate finder eliminated exact duplicate files. However, there are many that differ by just one byte that don't get picked up this way. The result is having to examine quite a few files by hand which I haven't yet done. Plus many pars are actually in the Discussion List collection but that is at a level hard to detect other than by brute force.
I decided to let previous collections like the spanky "Various Artists", Jo Webers Compuserve collection, Fracxtr6, and the Discussion list intact so there will remain a few duplicates within those but not many.
One thing which is of issue is that some Pars refer to a specific map which doesn't exist and Fractint chokes. Rather than amass a map collection, might it not be better to notify the default map is used instead and show the fractal anyway?
Roger
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Vortex Swirling wrote:
An alias that reminds me of how interested Gremlin used to be in the toilet.
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On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:10, Vortex Swirling wrote:
One thing which is of issue is that some Pars refer to a specific map which doesn't exist and Fractint chokes. Rather than amass a map collection, might it not be better to notify the default map is used instead and show the fractal anyway?
Hmm, could you give me an example? My version already does exactly what you are asking for. I am sure it's just a permutation I've missed. Thanks. Jonathan
Vortex Swirling wrote:
As for the ultimate par file collection.... ....there are many that differ by just one byte.... The result is having to examine quite a few files by hand which I haven't yet done.
Which is why it is taking me so long to get a single downloadable copy ready. (I do have a regular job and other things to do.) ;-}
One thing which is of issue is that some Pars refer to a specific map which doesn't exist and Fractint chokes. Rather than amass a map collection, might it not be better to notify the default map is used instead and show the fractal anyway?
There are some extensive MAP file collections available. (I personally only have about 2,000 in my directory path.) But using a default MAP file can many times alter the image appearance to something that is nothing like what the originator intended to express from the PAR. Sincerely, P.N.L. ------------------------------------------------- http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/PNL_Fractals.html http://www.Nahee.com/Fractals/
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