http://ecn.ab.ca/~brewhaha/img/Splotch.jpg I used an outside=atan rendering together with a two-colour outside/inside mask, plus an off-center PaintShopPro gradient for that. I had a gallery owner tell me that my work was "so...symmetrical". She was probably holding back loud, which is why I offer monochromes, plus monochromes work well as backgrounds. http://ecn.ab.ca/~brewhaha/Fractal_Gallery.htm Splotch { ; If you save an image with gray.map, then it will contain ; sixty-four unique colours. If you use altern.map, then ; you will get 256. Conclusion: fractint is still rounding ; colours off to a multiple of four. ; Fractint Version 2004 Patchlevel 4 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=fractint.frm formulaname=MandelBroh function=sqr/conj passes=t center-mag=-0.250612/-0.257234/1.02894/1.7614 params=2/8/0/-0.75/0/0.75 float=y maxiter=1024 inside=0 outside=atan invert=0.0471796195166667/-0.11771965045/0.0255761745 periodicity=0 colors=@altern.map } MandelBroh { ; Anglicized spelling. I recommend sticky functions. z=fn1(pixel) +P2, c=fn2(pixel) +P3: z=z^real(P1) +c |z| <= imag(P1) }