An Ultimate Par File Collection?
Hi, Jim Muth's examples of all the Fractint built in formula's has been very interesting. Every once in a while I search my pars collection for some of the rarer formulas he's been presenting lately. I use software called "Find It Pro" which can be set up to search the par files for various text strings. I like Find It Pro over some Indexing service like Google Desktop because I only search occasionally and I don't need all that overhead. In any case, some of the rarer formulas might have only every been submitted in public par files less than 10 times which I find interesting in and of itself. I have a large number of par files to search including the fotd's and list submissions. As far as individual artists, I once started collecting them but have never been diligent enough to even expand many of the zip files I've downloaded (which don't get searched by the way). I was wondering, has anyone ever seen or built what might be considered most of the pars submitted over the years? Something like OrgForm but for pars? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.796 / Virus Database: 540 - Release Date: 11/13/2004
Vortex Swirling wrote:
.....some of the rarer formulas might have only every been submitted in public par files less than 10 times.....
I was wondering, has anyone ever seen or built what might be considered most of the pars submitted over the years? Something like OrgForm but for pars?
My archive has a modest collection of around 16.1-MB worth. It has at least 750 seperate files with a PAR extension, almost all of them containing multiple image parameters. Doing a quick "guesstimate" of the total images comes to around 30,000 available. Then there are the IFS, L, KEY, BAT, and MAP files as well. Sincerely, P.N.L. ------------------------------------------------- http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/PNL_Fractals.html http://www.Nahee.com/Fractals/
comment { On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Vortex Swirling wrote: (...)
I have a large number of par files to search including the fotd's and list submissions. As far as individual artists, I once started collecting them but have never been diligent enough to even expand many of the zip files I've downloaded (which don't get searched by the way). I was wondering, has anyone ever seen or built what might be considered most of the pars submitted over the years? Something like OrgForm but for pars?
It's something that an avid script writer might be able to make out of the archives treated as one huge text file (the script could trim out the headers). I would employ FRACTINT itself for the processing, first, to see what happens. It would undoubtedly jenerate errors on comments that weren't delimited as such, but you could probably ignore them. There is, unfortunately, no reliable way to distinguish between formulas and parameters other than to assume that they are parameters and if FRACTINT chokes, then try using the segment of code as a formula. It MIGHT run out of memory on the whole set of archives, At least the DOS version probably would. I doubt that Linux (XFractint) with 2GB of virtual memory would run out of memory, though. You might find a "file splitter" of use for that case. }
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