Richard said:
How important is keeping the fractint.cfg facility for listing video modes?
I use the fractint.cfg facility to create additional high resolution 'disk' video modes that are multiples of two greater than standard video modes. I then use a graphics utility to average four or 16 pixels in these higher resolution images to do a kind of anti-aliasing down to a standard resolution when I want to create a jpeg-encoded fractal with thinner lines and smoother curves than the standard resolution Fractint images have. Why don't I just create a final image of higher resolution? Because I want to make wallpaper of a particular resolution, but with better appearance than a .gif image generated at that resolution. Here's part of my FRACTINT.CFG: ,Disk/RAM 'Video' ... 2048,1536,256,/For Bkgnd 2*(1024 x 768) ,Disk/RAM 'Video' ... 4096,3072,256,/For Bkgnd 4*(1024 x 768) ,Disk/RAM 'Video' ... 1280,1024,256,For Background Fractals ,Disk/RAM 'Video' ... 2560,2048,256,/For Bkgnd 2*(1280 x 1024) ,Disk/RAM 'Video' ... 5120,4096,256,/For Bkgnd 4*(1280 x 1024) It may be that I could achieve the same result by using the <b> key to write out multiple parameter files that create my high-res image in pieces and then use a graphics utility or SIMPLGIF.EXE to stitch the pieces together although I have not tried this. From the 20.0 docs: "...you might want to make an image greater than 2048 x 2048, the old pixel limit for Fractint. The parameters for this feature are: X Multiples - How many divisions of final image in the x direction Y Multiples - How many divisions of final image in the y direction Video mode - Fractint video mode for each piece (e.g. "F3")" I like this feature of Fractint -- of using fractint.cfg to be able to specify a 'disk' video mode of arbitrary size. It allows you to match an externally-imposed requirement on the fractal creator. I seem to remember that the images on the cover of the "Fractal Creations" book were created at extremely high resolution. I don't have enough knowledge of how fractint.cfg is used in Fractint to offer advice about whether to keep fractint.cfg for other reasons. - Hal Lane ######################### # hallane@earthlink.net <mailto:hallane@earthlink.net> # #########################
-----Original Message----- From: fractdev-bounces+hallane=earthlink.net@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:fractdev-bounces+hallane=earthlink.net@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Richard Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 7:41 PM To: fractdev@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Fractdev] video modes in fractint.cfg
How important is keeping the fractint.cfg facility for listing video modes? It doesn't really make much sense in the driver model because these video modes aren't associated with any particular driver.
At the moment, the driver adds the video modes it supports to the global table used by the code. When you select video modes, you're selecting the modes in the current driver. I will add some way to switch drivers at some point, but for now you just have the one and its modes.
How upset would people be if fractint.cfg went by the wayside?
What value are you getting out of it in a world where image dimensions are arbitrary and video modes are generally just a glorified way of specifying image dimensions? --
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