Back in the day (we're talking 80s) I wrote similar postscript (I remember also some sort of Douglas Hofstadter-esque strange attractor?). The argument for doin

Back in the day (we're talking 80s) I wrote similar postscript (I remember also some sort of Douglas Hofstadter-esque strange attractor?). The argument for doing this was entirely practical: The Apple LaserWriter in the computer lab had a 68000 processor, which was a darn lot faster than anything else in the room, plus the only way to do high-dpi raster output.