Gang, been thinking again (which my teachers told me was a dangerous thing). Apophysis 2.02 a freebie from Apophysis.com is a great fractal program wonderfully suited for making booful and perdy designs for clothing, drapes, heck even backgrounds and backdrops or even as a skin substitue for Vicky, Aiko, my Judy etc--neat alien characters.  Any other neat sources--Plutom