Rana Ian wrote:
....there are already a lot of good
fractal apps already out there. ....
Many of the apps are purchasable products.
What's kept people coming back to Fractint?
Has it been the free availability? The
website? The features? Are those the
items to build on?
Yes, there are several very good fractal related applications available. And some of the more recent ones, over the past five or so years, have incorporated the better features of their predecessors. And one item which has spurred the popularity of a few of these apps is the ability to use the files from FractInt (FRM, PAR, MAP, IFS, etc.). There are at least fifty different programs around that can use various files from FractInt. So what does that say about the people coding their programs to use such files?? THAT FRACTINT IS STILL ONE OF THE BEST !!!
I want to see the Uber, the Ultimate, the
Unitive fractal app. There are a lot of
neat features that can go in that no one
has ever done before. What do you guys
think are the best fractal apps out there
(besides Fractint)? Best features?
What has been mentioned before more than once, and what I believe should be seriously thought about, is making a core set of program modules that are not platform dependent, so that they can be used by any computer and operating system. Then various User Interfaces would be written to use those modules for actually handling the aspects of fractal generation, but would be developed for each of the various OS environments. The different UI versions would basically function the same and have everything the other ports had, but they would be more tailored for their own systems, working like other apps within those environments. And, one very big item that should be incorporated into FractInt is the ability to produce real 3-D objects and meshes for a variety of formats: OBJ, POV, DXF, WRL, LF, etc... This is the wave of the future for most graphic applications, being able to create, render, import, export, and handle various 3-D objects. Sincerely, P.N.L. ------------------------------------------------- http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/PNL_Fractals.html http://www.Nahee.com/Fractals/