Although I called this "Monarch" I later found that the predominantly orange monarch butterfly has white spots on a black background on their wing tips rather than the black on white in this image. Thanks to Albrect Niekamp for a rich base formula (multifractal_5) and fractal (Mixdown3) and to Lee H. Skinner for the color map. The timing may be off as I often calculate more than one fractal at a time to Disk-Video. I once had Win98 calculating a dozen at a the same time. They share the processor relatively evenly while calculating the fractals but then loop, reading the keyboard, (using a similar amount of processor time) when the fractal itself is done. This behavior might possibly be modified by playing with the Idle Sensitivity in the DOS window properties. Info on the web has been contradictory. An exception to the rule of thumb of multiple windowed Fractint processes sharing the processor evenly occurs when you give focus to one of the Fractint windows. This gives the lion's share of the cpu to that process. I use this to quickly finish up a fractal that I see is nearing completion. After the fractal is saved and that instance of Fractint has been exited, the remaining instances of Fractint each get a greater portion of the cpu and can finish up more quickly. If I remember correctly, when I submit a .PAR file my ancient Compuserve mail program converts all instances of "=" to "=3D". When I find this problem with other people's .PAR files I use Robin Bussell's Paste & Go Windows utility which has an "=3D" button which quickly repairs the damage. http://web.ukonline.co.uk/robin.b2/pastengo.htm Any text editor with a "Replace" function can also change all instances of "=3D" back to "=" to get the same repair. Paste & Go V1.3 uses the Microsoft Visual Basic runtime DLL (msvbvm50.dll) which many people already have on their machines. If not, Robin also has a downloadable version of Paste & Go that includes this file also. For those who successfully use Fractint with a version of Windows, Paste & Go is a great way to painlessly get a set of parameters and a formula into Fractint. I've gotten lazy and now paste both the parameter text followed by the formula in the Par window. When you do this just insure that the text: FRM: precedes the formula. This also saves one from having to change the existing formula file's name to: pastengo. A nice feature of Paste & Go is that in addition to the parameter file name and parameter list name it can add custom parameters to the command line that invokes Fractint. I use Paste & Go's Setup feature to add the following parameter to get a quick windowed version of the fractal to see if I want to calculate a full size version: viewwindows=4/0.75/yes/0/0 If I like it I then send the fractal off to Disk-Video and then hit Alt-Enter to change the Fractint window from full screen to a normal window so I can proceed with my usual use of my machine. ################################################### mf5-001{ ; Title - "Monarch" Albrect Niekamp's ; Multifractal_5. Zoom into Mixdown3 ; Approx 1:30:00 on P2 400MHh 1024x768 ; Color Map by Lee H. Skinner ; Fractal by Harold Lane (c)2003 ; Version 20.02.04 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=pastengo.par formulaname=multifractal_5 ismand=y function=cos/exp/exp/sin passes=1 center-mag=1.26399/1.12753e-005/33.86394/1/2.5000\ 0000000015055/1.56522017569216132e-012 params=-0.1156346324045534/-0.5338602862636189/14\ 237.3200001/53000.1314021613/2048.02048/384.00000\ 49/768.00024/128.0076800000001/768.0076800000001/\ 1024.00768 float=y maxiter=2048 inside=maxiter outside=tdis logmap=4 symmetry=none periodicity=0 rseed=-2436 cyclerange=2/255 sound=off colors=000000zzz<2>nsjQdrLdtblU<3>Mb8<3>LQ8KM8KJ8\ <2>I88H44G00<3>TA5WD6ZF7aI8eLAhMBiODjQF<3>qeBriAt\ m9vq8xu7zz5zz4zz3<4>zj4zg4zc4<3>zS5zP5zL6zI6zE6wE\ 6tD6<6>vAIv9Kv9M<3>x7Sy7Uy6Wz6Yz5_<3>f5Ma5IW4E<2>\ _4H<3>P3DN2CK2A<3>805G0BO0G<3>g0Ul0Xq0`v0d<2>y0fz\ 0gy0h<3>u1mt1ns1or2q<2>v2u<3>c5eZ6`U6X<2>F9LAAG7F\ O4KW0Qc<3>5Xc6Zc7`c7aa7c_7eY<3>FcgHciJbl<3>S_v<3>\ civflvinvlqvotvsww<2>zzz<3>rwzovzhsw<3>Gch8_d8Xa<\ 3>8JP8FL8CI<3>SCCXCAaB9<3>uA2zA0xA0<12>SA1QA1NA1<\ 3>D92<6>UXAW`BYcC<3>hrI<3>UnXRm_NlcJkgFfpAaz<3>PJ\ oSFlWAi_5fc0ce7_jFRoNIzb0<2>zz1zzCzzTzzi } ################################################### - Hal Lane hallane @ compuserve.com