This is where I think a shared internet or intranet cpu system could work. I was thinking a redesign of Fractint might be the solution but I'm moving completely out of the box. Consider this... When we do a fractal screen we see a colored image. But the underlying fractal is a coordinate plane of calculated values. Why not then be able to calculate those values and save them in a file. How different this is than disk video I don't know, but I do know I want a different effect. After the coordinate plane values is calculated it is retained. Then in fractint we "generate" the image again, but this time instead of calculating each point, they are simply read from the file. In this way we "play back" the image. We could even do the special effects while drawing the file and could redraw it at any speed we wanted. We could color or recolor the image any way we want. Essentially we could do anything that doesn't require a recalculation of any point. Since the file is just numbers calculated based on their location in the coordinate plane, that lends itself to divide and conquer. We decide how fine to dice the image up, and all those chunks are sent out to the grid and eventually returned filled in. There could even be a way to display the squares as they came back just for kicks. Now not knowing a lot about the internals for Fractint, does something like this seem feasible? It seems to me that the app to distribute the fractal around the net is then a separate application, and that fractint would only have to be modified to be able to read the file instead of calculating the points itself. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.4 - Release Date: 3/27/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.4 - Release Date: 3/27/2005