>if you are looking for a mandelbox interface there is mandelbulb
hey patrice, I use mandelbulber sometimes.
It's actually where I checked to see if I had
the coding right when I added it to my renderer

this is my old3d fractal renderer that uses SDL
http://geocities.ws/billy_stiltner/code/newquafra.zip

the version with the mandelbox is here
https://www.facebook.com/groups/555999454468221/556001087801391/

xlib only

it's different than other fractal renderer's , it fills up a 3d cube

with transparent voxels so you you can see though the thing while

colorcycling in real time. Other renderers use raymarching so you end up

with a static view. You can move the 3dfractal around in realtime

while it's colorcycling with my renderer.

writing xlib applications sounds a bit like you missed the last 20 years).

It still works great as far as i can comprehend so does opengl for the past 20

years I hadnt messed with my 3d fractal in about 10 years was waiting on

computers to get faster and someone to find a nice 3d mandelbrot.

Allthough all my attempts made somewhat nice looking mandelbrot like

fractal caves , the math was not correct.

Anyways my code compiled just great it used SDL's OGL stuff.

I didnt want to be depending on SDL so I rewrote it to use xlib only.

Thanks for the info. So if I use a separate socket , it will not interfere

with the XServer. I thought there might be someway X could handle

the socket. What about using pdreceive and pipeing or redirecting the

output to my app?

I'm not sure how to handle the input from the programming side.