On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Paul N. Lee wrote: (...)
I will volunteer my archives and time for whatever it will take to create and complete such a project. But once finished, will the total size of all things included require two CDs (or more), and how will this collection be made available and distributed?? (...) I don't see that this _should_ be the case, except in the most stubbornly computing intensive renditions that just won't look good without passes=1 and periodicity=0 and over fifty thousand iterations (where it _really_ might make sense to download it over phone lines) or complexity akin to the fractals that mask "FRACTINT" off within the equation.
Otherwise, if I snipped it before, then Jim Muth might offer his parameter files compressed to consume less than three meg. The fractint mailing list archives might be of use to those doing research offline, or just for distributed archival purposes. That would probably come to less than fifty meg as a zipfile or gzipfile. (The viewer would be a small fraction of that if it wasn't a browser, that case adding nothing). The curiosity, to me, is paring down what is already a minimalistic distribution of Linux: Knoppix. I would already list a kernel, a compiler, XWindows, XFractint, GhostScript, The Gimp, and Lynx as bare essentials. (Plus DOS flavours of GhostScript [5.10 seems to be the final version for MS-DOS], Lynx, and FRACTINT). That might be half or more of the 700meg of space on a disk, but highly functional as a stand-alone product, *IF*WE* disallow rendered graphics that are not written into software. That's not to say that individuals would be prevented from including some personal choices in renditions. (It costs less to stamp CDs out than to burn them, but you would need a minimum order or a contract for distribution to make creating the plate for that economical). That's my wish list for a burn. Comments welcome. I've made no promises of production or scheduling, but I hear an echo for wanting to include Knoppix or a similar minimalistic distribution of Linux on an ISO 9660 image. The DOS version? At least until border tracing and palette editing work nicely with XFractint.