Sorry for the delay, weekend and family matters came up, no real progress was made.

I probably just need to spend more time fooling around with Wilbur, don't plan on discounting it entirely but I'm really looking for the core program i'll be working with for this project. There's still a couple programs I need to give the good looksee; but I'll probably just draw pretty heavy on real data and fractal filters and mostly use 2D software that I'm familiar with by trade simply due to time constraints. I should be able to get a good result but it might not be the quality I normally strive for. I appreciate all the feedback, it has really helped identify some key personal skill deficiencies I'll need to address at a later date.

Kudos Redrobes on the MeDEM project by the way, it's way impressive the work you all have done.