Where did the name "Synfig" come from?Was it inspired by xfig?

[Animefanman]

I’m wondering was it?

[BobSynfig]

Hi and Welcome here Bleachisbae

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Name
It was originally called SINFG, a recursive acronym for “SINFG Is Not A Fractal Generator”, referring to the software’s capability of generating fractal imagery in addition to animation.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synfig#Name

[Animefanman]

@BobSynfig

Hi and Welcome here Bleachisbae

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Name
It was originally called SINFG, a recursive acronym for “SINFG Is Not A Fractal Generator”, referring to the software’s capability of generating fractal imagery in addition to animation.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synfig#Name

I mean the word “Synfig”

[BobSynfig]

@Bleachisbae

I mean the word “Synfig”

SINFG as a name looks ugly and is hard to pronounce (let’s have a try )
So it has been changed to Synfig, which looks more “commercial”
(think about Samba under Linux, which is connected to SMB protocol)