The first edition of Fractal Creations introduced PC owners to the fruits of the collective efforts of a loose-knit international fractal programming team known as Stone Soup. Readers enjoyed dazzling fractal graphics on their super VGA PCs, and spent hours of fascinated pleasure exploring countless fractal landscapes and discovering a visual cornucopia of images. The first edition came with version 15 of fractint, the program providing all this excitement.
The authors and publisher received appreciative feedback from readers about the software and book, which topped several computer book best-seller lists.
The very success of Fractal Creations provided an even wider audience for Fractint, which in turn accelerated the contributions of new ideas, code, and examples. Fractint version 16 followed rapidly on the heels of version 15, and introduced the compact PAR format for storing fractal parameters that has become a defacto standard for the exchange of images among fractal enthusiasts. After version 17, the handwriting was on the wall; a new edition of Fractal Creations was needed. This book announces Fractint version 18.2, the third significant upgrade of Fractint in less than two years.