Vortex Swirling wrote:
I don't think I could reorganize the fractint code myself. If I had the money, I'd higher some good programmers to reorganize the fractint code
How about just pay the existing ones so they could devote their time to it, instead of having to do other things to make a living?
such that the calculation part was completely separate from the user interface. That would free it up to be able to be able to run on any platform (except probably for dos).
Yes, yes, mentioned that idea quite awhile ago! Split out a very portable "Fractint Backend" with a standard API and let people do UIs for it. (It would even open the possibility of programmatically generating fractals.)
I would place a network layer into the mix so that you could use other fractint engines running on the grid to produce your image. And in fact I would rename the program FractGrid. All FractGrid users would be sharing their idle computer cycles. And it would still be free.
Yes, then someone nice could port the backend to a nice handy supercomputer platform ... :-) -- David gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community