JOT, I just want to say how incredible your animations are. I've been following your Universe series and its quite fascinating. Even with this I still can't comprehend how far this thing goes. I still have the fantasy that some place in a fractal we find the signature of the creator or some other cool undeniable artifact. (This is similar to the idea in the book Contact by Carl Sagan - its in there, not in the movie). I don't think I could reorganize the fractint code myself. If I had the money, I'd higher some good programmers to reorganize the fractint code such that the calculation part was completely separate from the user interface. That would free it up to be able to be able to run on any platform (except probably for dos). I would place a network layer into the mix so that you could use other fractint engines running on the grid to produce your image. And in fact I would rename the program FractGrid. All FractGrid users would be sharing their idle computer cycles. And it would still be free. This is probably the natural evolution anyway, I just may be several years ahead of myself. Who wants to wait for Moores law? Which isn't working so well with computer cycles anyway... The 18 month doubling says that an image that takes an hour now, should take 15 minutes in computers made 3 years apart. I don't see any such improvements. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.3 - Release Date: 3/15/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.3 - Release Date: 3/15/2005