PovRay uses a Scene Description Language that allows for the inclusion of Fractals. You can either include a pre-rendered fractal image built with Fractint and then render the image in a 3-D format with PovRay or use the already available fractal/Julia functions intrinsic to PovRay to create your own rendering. There are a few PovRay macros out there that can help with taking your Fractint image and rendering it the way you wish, but off-hand I can't think of any. Unfortunately, PovRay's SDL has a steep learning curve and unless you are willing to learn a "new" language quickly, PovRay may not be the best product out there. Regards, Thaddaeus -----Original Message----- From: fractint-bounces+thaddparker=usa.net@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:fractint-bounces+thaddparker=usa.net@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Tim Wegner Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 22:56 To: Fractint and General Fractals Discussion Subject: Re: [Fractint] Re: 3D fractals Jackoftradez wrote:

I will checkout POV-ray then, hopefully I can make sense out of the code so I can write animation scripts like with fractint. Time will tell.

I don't know about "like fractint", but POVray makes it easy to animate images in own it's native way right in the POV-ray script. I used that to make the Mandelbrot lake fly-by animations in Image Lab 2nd Edition, though that was with a MUCH older POV-Ray program. Tim _______________________________________________ Fractint mailing list Fractint@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint