hi all. i'd like to discuss a way of shaping up an image: flooding it is done by iterating all the pixels consequently, coloring those that bailed out, but still precising what was left black.. (stripe after stripe appears: blue, green, cyan, red..) so there is no need for an iteration limit - infinity is ok, even without periodicity checking.. (but periodicity logic would speed it up, of course) it also may start after the guessing was completed, just checking whether the inside is really inside, up to a high maxiter or infinity.. you can see an example attached to this mail: faketint.jar (run something like: java -jar faketint.jar) (it's just fast built, slow acting, and i'm very new to java) it will probably need a lot of memory, so maybe there is no chance to fit that to the dos version of fractint.. but anyway, what do you think about it, is it worth of thinking about? charlie ____________________________________________________________ Nechybí Vám něco proti hackerům a virům? http://ad2.seznam.cz/redir.cgi?instance=63339%26url=http://www.contactel.cz/...