Doug: Sorry, I didn't mean to sound as critical as you obviously thought I was - I don't subscribe to politics in either programming or fractals or arts or.... All I meant was there are so many fractal programs out there that it would be nice to hear others subjective opinions about fractal software - I have neither the time nor the patience to try all the fractal software that is available. I neglected to mention the old version of Fractint for Windows as it is/was so limited compared with the DOS version - a subjective decision :-) To me the ideal fractal software would be something like UF combined with Xenodream combined with Quasz combined with Bryce combined with Photoshop including L-systems, flame fractals, strange attractors, digital automata..... OK - a pipe dream then. More specifically (and realistically) something like UF but with the switch previews using the currently selected colouring/s rather than just some defaults.

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