In article <3eb3ac4c@news.povray.org>, gimi <gim### [at] psicoch> wrote:

> What du you need recursion for?  Most fractals I know of
> (Mandelbrot included) are computed in simple iterations,
> as in (pseudo-code):

You can make an iterative version of any recursive algorithm. However, 
the recursive version is often much simpler, and most fractals are 
mathematically defined as recursive because of the self-similar nature 
of fractals. At the time this was written, POV supported function 
recursion, but it still does not support loops, though you can imitate 
it using a long string of select() calls.

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