stbenge wrote:

> I would rather just use a program already geared towards 
> user-friendliness, since I'm lazy when it comes to the boring aspects of 
> programming (Windows API stuff). Does anyone know of a good fractal 
> generator that lets you alter the parameters at a low, less-abstract 
> level? I don't mean z=z+c, but rather something like xx=x*x-y*y, 
> yy=x*y*2. It would have to allow me to use mathematical expressions 
> since I make use of min(n,n) for the more interesting fractals I've come 
> up with. I wonder if Fractint would allow me to do that...

Yeah, FractInt will do it. The syntax is something like

   x = real(z);
   y = imag(z);
   z = {x*x - y*y, 2*x*y};

off the top of my head...

The fun part - apparently - is getting FractInt to actually run any 
more. Being an old MS-DOS program that manually frobnicates the video 
hardware in advanced ways, it doesn't tend to run very happily under 
Windoze. (Indeed, you might have more luck with the Linux port...)

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