>>>     I would recommend XaoS. It might have all the features of fractint, but
>>> most fractals can be zoomed in real-time, which makes it cool.
>
>> On the other hand, it seems to be comparatively slow.
>
>    Comparatively slow? You can use XaoS to zoom into the Mandelbrot set
> (and other fractals) in real-time. Fractint isn't that good.

FractInt seems to render things quite a bit faster than Xaos. I haven't 
actually measured it, it just seems more responsive. And you don't need 
to zoom in very far before you have to frequently stop zooming and let 
Xaos catch up with redrawing the image, so you can see where to go next.

(It probably doesn't help that Xaos uses boundary-trace to draw the 
image in certain instances, and the display updates very, very 
infrequently while it does this. With FractInt, you can see what's 
happening while it does this. It's kind of mesmerising, actually...)

>    Btw, "continental drift" is an obsolete theory. "Plate tectonics" is the
> currently accepted one.

It's news to me that continental drift isn't the same thing as plate 
tectonics...

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