Patch 5 to Fractint version 20.4 is now available on the Fractint Developer's web sites: www.fractint.org or www.fractint.net This is unrelated to Rich's port. What's new: Changed help screen to show just two main authors - decided better not to show inactive authors. Added commented out bf version of Mandelbrot in fractalp.c. Giving thought to offering bfmath as an option to bnmath, but if we fix the current bignum problems, this may be moot. Added interation to <tab> screen. Fixed the logic for calculating when to switch from using a grid to using the on-the-fly calculation of an image's pixels. The logic was not handling disk video images sized above 2048x2048 with floating point enabled. Added the savename to the disk video status screen. Fixed bug in the compare routine of bn_math that fixes long standing problem with periodicity checking in deep zoomed images. Added code to force periodicity=0 when the inside=atan feature is used. Jonathan
Lee,
Added code to force periodicity=0 when the inside=atan feature is used.
A lot of formulas have comments where they say the formula must be used with periodicity turned off or equal to 0. Should there be a way in the formula scripting language to turn it off?
This has been discussed in the past. I'll take a look. My only concern is that PAR setting have to be able to override the FRM settings. Jonathan
Lee,
A lot of formulas have comments where they say the formula must be used with periodicity turned off or equal to 0. Should there be a way in the formula scripting language to turn it off?
I've added code to allow this. It currently works like this: mandel(symmetry)[perimage parameters go here]{ per pixel setup goes here: calculation goes here } Any parameter that can be set in a PAR can be set. The current limitation is the line length. The formula name, symmetry, and perimage parameters all have to be on the same line. This could be changed. Some example usages would be: mandel(XAXIS)[float=y periodicity=0]{ or mandel[symmetry=xaxis float=y periodicity=0]{ Jonathan
Lee,
Any parameter that can be set in a PAR can be set. The current limitation is the line length. The formula name, symmetry, and perimage parameters all have to be on the same line. This could be changed. <<
Wow! Thanks. When will this mod be available in a new patch?
I hope to put it out this next week. After I add docs and work out a few kinks. 8-)) Jonathan
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