I just got the new version (? - the DOS version is 20.0) of fractint for
Linux (Xfractint), and it seems to work quite well, aside from the black
and white terminal and stuff. The problem I am having is that when I try
to output it does, but it has problems outputting properly. For example,
when I render a mandel, I get a collection of large squares representing
the mandel to the left. Plasma either only shows half of itself, or it
shows dots in the output. I tried saving the file and opened it in GIMP
- it opened, but the plasma had a really nasty palette (the output shows
it as blue) and it was broken where it renders each box (of 4).

Any ideas as to what might be causing this would be of help - I can
always get the DOS version if worse comes ot worse (I like it better
anyway :) but I was hoping I could do all my pov-raying in Linux.

Happy tracing,

Tim Soderstrom
TigerHawk

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On Sat, 06 Nov 1999 09:40:30 -0600, TigerHawk <tig### [at] sticnet> wrote:

>I just got the new version (? - the DOS version is 20.0) of fractint for
>Linux (Xfractint) [..]

  Hi, Tim. Just for the record, can you check to see exactly which version
you have and post the .url where you obtained it? TIA.

-- 
Alan - ako### [at] povrayorg - a k o n g <at> p o v r a y <dot> o r g
http://www.povray.org - Home of the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer

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I'd be happy to:
I have xfractint v 3.20 (compatible with 20.0) and I got it from the link
provided by: http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/fractint.html

I think I may have found part of the problem. It appears that because I am at
16-bit it outputs using a blueish palette - it does the same thing in the DOS
version when I try 16-bit or higher modes. So that is were I am getting the
odd-colored output (I think), but it still does not explain the poor output.

<shrug>, if you have any ideas I'd be happy to hear them!

Tim Soderstrom




Alan Kong wrote:

> On Sat, 06 Nov 1999 09:40:30 -0600, TigerHawk <tig### [at] sticnet> wrote:
>
> >I just got the new version (? - the DOS version is 20.0) of fractint for
> >Linux (Xfractint) [..]
>
>   Hi, Tim. Just for the record, can you check to see exactly which version
> you have and post the .url where you obtained it? TIA.
>
> --
> Alan - ako### [at] povrayorg - a k o n g <at> p o v r a y <dot> o r g
> http://www.povray.org - Home of the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer

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