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A little documentation to go with the program .....

The 'Fizzy Fractals' screen-saver generates and displays amazingly beautiful fractal images in random order. The image points are also randomly generated, creating a 3D steroegram effect as the image is displayed. It is from this that the program gets its name.

There are several configurable options :-

   Under the 'General' group, use the 'Completion delay' to specify the time delay before the completed image is cleared and a new one started. This can be anything between 0 and 10 seconds (it is supposed to be a screen saver, after all). As mentioned earlier, as the image is generated, a 3D sterogram image will be seen and this (depending on the screen resolution) can use quite a bit of memory. By default, the 'Use extra memory' button is unchecked. This results is a slightly faster image generation, with a somewhat enhanced 3D effect (due to the less refined way in which the image is generated). Checking the button will result in a slightly slower, finer image generation. It is important to note that in both cases, the final image is absolutely identical.

The 'Blanking Methods' group can be used to define the way in which the screen is blanked before the next image is generated. 'Fizzy fade' is the reverse of the image generation, with all points of the screen being randomly turned black. 'Fast fade' (the default option), simply blanks the screen and 'No fade' leaves the previous image on the screen, and the new image 'pushes through'. If more than on button is checked, the program will randomly select one of the checked blanking methods.

The 'Colour Schemes' group can be used to select any (or all) of the 14 colour schemes currently available. 'Mono', 'Raindow' and the 6 'Bold' schemes are all just as good in 256 colour mode, whereas the others really benefit from high colour, or better. If more than one button is checked, the program will randomly select one of the checked colour schemes.

The 'Curve Types' group determines the type of fractal images that will be generated and displayed. If more than on button is checked, the program will randomly select one of the checked types. It is intended that this group be expanded in future releases and that the number of images of each type will also be expanded. Please let me know if you have any particular favourites.

The 'Iteration Options' can be used to speed up, or slow down the image generation. It should be noted that the image generations is very CPU intensive and the speed of the image generation is very much hardware dependant. Essentially, increase the minimum number of iterations to slow down the image generation (and also to improve the image detail) and reduce the maximum number of iterations to speed up the image generation (which could lose a bit of detail). In the case of the maximum, images that would have used a higher number of iterations can either be excluded from the available images, or have the number of iteration reduced to the specified maximum. Please note that the minimum cannot exceed the maximum.

Due to the large number of options, there are two buttons at the bottom of the window, namely 'Select All' and 'Select None'. Clicking these will cause all items in the 'Blanking Methods', 'Colour Schemes' and 'Curve Types' groups to be selected or de-selected, respectively.

Click the 'Cancel' button (or press escape) to abandon any changes and exit the screen.

Click the 'OK' button (or press <Return>) to save the current configuration and exit the screen.

The message box does not appear in the registered version.

That's about it on the documentation front - I hope you enjoy the program.
