I have tried to reproduce this, but can't. Am using Xfractint 20.02.4, XFree86 4.2.0. My Xfractint window is 640x480. After about 10 max-zoom-ins, I had to increase the max. iterations to 250 just to get some detail. As I'm writing this , I'm working on zoom-in #16. Arbitrary precision is up to 23 decimals, magnification is 2.18356346e+19. I'll save the .par file, in case any one would like to compare the values, but I did start out with the default mandelbrot fractal Scott
Cute Skunk wrote:
By the way, I don't know if anyone else has noticed this before, > but in XFractint if you zoom in and zoom in, eventually your (X) resolution drops and drops to 1 (or 0?), so that you just get abunch of horizontal lines. I havn't tracked it down yet, but it happens in Xfract 20.2.x and does *not* happen in Dos fractint 20.2.x. It does seem to correlate with about the time that the dos version switches over to using arbitrary precision. The XFractint version doesn't stop using floating point at the same magnifications. (Like around 10e14 to 10e15) The easiest way to see this bug is, from the first Mandelbrot set, just zoom in on your favorite feature all the way about 11 times, and the (X) resulution should start to drop. (By zoom in all the way, I mean hold <page up> until the zoom box gets as small as it does)
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