When I compile the frames to video at lower resolution, now the video looks much "cleaner" than all previous. Is that like a "pseudo" anti-aliasing you can do with fractint?

You are definitely getting a kind of anti-aliasing effect. When resizing an image to a smaller size you decrease the effect of inappropriately bright single pixels and 'jaggies', because single pixels' color values get averaged* with the adjacent pixels' more correct values, 'cleaning the image up.' Note: ----- *averaged -- not exactly averaged, but a function of the neighboring pixel's color values. There are quite a few algorithms/filters for resizing images. It's important to *not* select (or have selected for you by default) the "nearest neighbor" filter. It just picks a nearby *existing* color value and gives no anti-aliasing-type effect at all. The algorithms/filters I like are: - Lanczose (best), - Bi-cubic (next best) if they are available to choose from. I don't know what filter Fractint uses when you read a high resolution image into (say) half the image's resolution video or Disk Video mode. I've not ever done this to see what happens. I use the image manipulation/viewer, Compupic, to make changes like these to my images. I believe that the free program Gimp: http://www.gimp.org/ that Paul mentioned has a rich feature set, too.

is there a "hot" color (red,orange,yellow etc) version? [of Sylvie Gallet's color map I posted.] Her map[s?] is/are available on the web [somewhere!], but Albrecht has a copy of it/them that I'm sure he'll be happy to send to you.

- Hal Lane ######################## # hallane@earthlink.net ######################## ----- JackOfTradeZ post ------------------------------ Author: JackOfTradeZ Date: 2015-01-15 16:13 -500 To: fractint Subject: [Fractint] Anti-Aliens . That SG map loox awesome - I need to try it with my current project(s); is there a "hot" color (red,orange, yellow etc) version? I made an animation at 2048x2048 recently - 1st time at that resolution, using the Disk-video mode. When I compile the frames to video at lower resolution, now the video looks much "cleaner" than all previous. Is that like a "pseudo" anti-aliasing you can do with f ractint? ------------------------------------------------------- --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com