One problem with the way that Chaoscope does colourmaps is that it's
incompatible with the way that just about everyone from the early
days of Fractint onwards has handled them. If anyone doesn't know
this standard format, it's a list of 256 newline-terminated (usually
space-separated) triples of integers 0-255 for red, green and blue
intensities respectively, with the colour index given implicitly by
the line position of the triple in the list. Harder to describe
accurately than to understand!
This makes it almost impossible to use widely-available tools such as
FIntMap and ApoMap to edit Chaoscope's abbreviated colour files. I
can see that the Chaoscope way of doing things has the elegance of
terseness, but disk space is very cheap nowadays, and I don't see
that we gain anything by being incompatible.
