Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> I am currently attempting to construct a Mandelbrot exploration tool of 
>> my own...
> 
>   Why? You'll never beat Xaos at that.

You think not?

Actually, my reason for building this tool is precisely to address a 
limitation of Xaos. Zoom in and then zoom back out again, and Xaos will 
recompute the pixels that scrolled off the screen. My plan is to build a 
tool that will keep the data for every pixel ever drawn in a giant 
on-disk database. I expect this to be highly useful for rendering long 
zoom animations to disk - and also for fast interactive exploration. (At 
least, the *second* time you visit an area anyway...)

As to whether the program ever reaches a useable state... we shall see.

[I also have plans for a more general-purpose fractal drawing tool more 
like FractInt - i.e., with a healthy dose of different fractal types, 
colouring algorithms, etc. But we'll see if that project ever goes 
anywhere.]

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