Gandreas plainly knows what he is saying.
I accept such statements as 'This is what is commonly know as "orbit traps" (or just "traps").' because he is offering Knowledge, and not opinion.
it's a pity you thought of my remarks about the speed and flexibility differences between fixedpoint integer routines and floating point as merely being opinion. (how's the fixed point arctan coming along?)
In particular, he is not trying to put me under pressure.
i know we've come to have our differences, but surely it cannot be that you think i made my first posts to you, offering hard-won advice, simply out of malice...
I am using an "open set" of software tools, not a set that has been closed as a plaything for amateurs.
i'm proud of being an amateur; i'm not sure how you rank yourself, having just mastered the julia <-> mandelbrot connection, but referring to my software - which i've written
from the ground up to be both powerful and fast - as a plaything just isn't cricket. to wit: how long would it take you to write in assembler something that produces the sort of images i'm producing, and do you really thing anything other than multiplication, division, addition and subtraction are feasible in fixed point?
I do not know whether Fractint, Fractal Explorer or other tools allow early fling and last fling analysis of the trajectories. However, rather than try to fathom that out, I just made a modification to my software and published on this website.
i'm also not privy to this since the only fractal software i've
ever used other than my own is fractint, on a 386, back in 1992 if i recall correctly - and i had absolutely no idea what it was all about, i just liked the 256 colour palette cycling. my resurgent interest in fractals stemmed entirely from learning about complex numbers at university.
Here, for example is an image that ready-made tools might not be able to make:
if you know of anything that can render 3d fractals like
http://www.fractographer.com/wip/adits_final.png - please let me know. (and no, neither xenodream nor chaoscope come close to that speed and quality - the original image is 29310x18510 resolution and took less than a day using half my pc's power.
anyway i'm quite ready to lay our differences to rest, i really just hoped you could see how it was intended instead of feeling attacked.