> a little update on what i've been working on:

> after my extreme silliness a few weeks ago by putting a whopping 40 planes flying around at once in my program, i decided to try it again with 80 this time. boy did that chug! no, that's not the only thing i've been working on since last time.

> i just decided to mess around with procedural 3d textures to produce effects like sculptures that look like they are carved out of marble. man is that cool! i can't believe i didn't mess with that stuff before. fractals are so cool! btw maybe people can use it to make camouflage on their vehicles very easily, yes?

> anyway i was wondering. how could i make it so someone could write and use their own 3d fractal function in my program? my program would need to use those dll things then right? i remember in my school for programming class they made people write programs to do 2d fractals. it would be cool if i could make it so they can plug-in their fractal work into my program. is there something like this already for 3dsmax? if so can i make my program compatible with those same fractal plug-ins that people write for 3dsmax?

Or you could simply run their program, pass the required parameters and read the output file.