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What's New
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RIFS 1.1 (8/10/97)
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1) Added Show Elapsed Time to the Options menu and INI file
2) Added Random coloring
3) Added RIFS.BAS to the distribution package (RIFS11.zip)

Version 1.0 (7/26/97)
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1) Created icon
2) Changed About box layout
3) Started using version numbers
4) Added Iterations, Update Interval, and Auto Clear options.  The values 
   for these options are stored in an INI file (RIFS.INI) so that the 
   program "remembers" them.  See the comments in RIFS.INI for descriptions
   of these new options.    
5) Created Iterations and Update Interval dialogs 
6) Centered main form and other dialogs on the screen

1/28/97
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1) Added Blend coloring option
2) Added Crystal, Leaf, and Fern attractors
3) Took out code that disabled currently selected option in the menu

2/3/97
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1) Fixed redrawing problem that caused the main form to get wiped out when 
   it was minimized or covered with another dialog box.  AutoRedraw is now
   set to True and the form is updated every 500 points.  This solution
   resulted in some loss of performance.  When drawing 100,000 points of
   the black and white Sierpinski gasket, a test on my machine yielded the
   following times:

   AutoRedraw set to True and
	Form refreshed every 100 points	27.30 s
	Form refreshed every 200 points	22.23 s
	Form refreshed every 500 points	19.72 s (current setting)
   AutoRedraw set to False		14.80 s (original setting)

   I guess the solution is preferable to the original problem.

2) Added the Elapsed Time dialog box.  The program can now be used as an
   interesting benchmark to see how fast your computer can crunch numbers
   and plot points.  
