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Re: [Fractint] Important Message for Paul and Scott
by Jim Muth 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

At 06:48 PM 12/21/03 -0600, Tim W. wrote: >In amusing myself with the "blivot" thread, I noticed that >if you do a google search for blivot, what pops up FIRST is: > >http://home.att.net/~Fractals_1/FotD_99-03-02.html . . . > >Funny that www.blivot.com doesn't show up until the 5th page. This is what has our friend Ken upset. He wants his business to come up first when a search is done. When I received the original letter, I thought it was a joke. I was ready to reply, requesting a small payment for advertising his company on the FOTD web sites. But as Tim says, Christmas is but 3 days away, and it's time to be nice to each other. Maybe we should introduce Ken to fractals. ;-) The FOTD will appear in 2 to 3 hours. Jim M.

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Re: [Fractint] Important Message for Paul and Scott
by Jim Muth 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

At 02:26 PM 12/21/03 -0800, John W. wrote: >Well, for a start off, this guy can tackle the publishers >of Webster's. I think that the first definition is very >applicable! >---------------------------------------------------- >Hypertext Webster Gateway <<blivot>> > >>From Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) (jargon) > >blivet /bliv'*t/ n. [allegedly from a World War II >military term meaning "ten pounds of manure in a >five-pound bag"] ..... <other definitions snipped> The spelling that appeared in the FOTD was 'blivot'. The definitions in the dictionary are for the spelling 'blivet'. Though both spellings are pronounced the same, I wonder whether they really can be considered the same word. The FOTD for Dec 22 will appear on schedule. Jim M.

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FOTD 22-12-03 (Fornever and Never [8])
by Jim Muth 22 Dec '03

22 Dec '03

FOTD -- December 22, 2003 (Rating 8) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: When I first came upon today's image, I rated it a 4, and almost decided to relegate it to the trash-bin of forgotten fractals that never made FOTD. But before deleting it, I tried a few thumbnail images of the same scene, using the various outside options. Most options produced little more than total chaos, but the 'tdis' and especially the 'fmod' options created interes- ting miniatures. I chose the 'fmod' option. The resulting image consists of the overlapping bubbles that appear so often with the 'fmod' option. Some bubbles are nearly circular, while others are peanut-shaped. All the bubbles put together create an image with an unusually vivid three-dimen- sional effect. And the traditional Mandelbrot midget is right where it belongs, at the center of the frame. The parent fractal of today's image, which was created by combining various negative portions of Z^3 and Z^5, appears to the visual sense as a Mandeloid rotated -90 degrees, with more extra bays and valley than one can shake an iteration at. The scene of the image lies in a supernumerary valley on the south- west shore of a smaller Mandeloid located on the main (negative- imaginary in this case) stem of the large Mandeloid. The rating of an exceptional 8 might be a bit overdone. I really did not give the image the attention to the coloring that a truly exceptional fractal should have. When I named the image "Fornever and Never", I had a reason. Unfortunately, I have now forgotten that reason. But it's an interesting name for an interesting fractal. And the waiting time of 10 minutes can be eliminated by downloading the comple- ted GIF image from Paul's web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> Saturday and Sunday were sunny but chilly days here at Fractal Central, with the temperature in the 30'sF, around 2C. The cats spent only a short time outdoors on both days. The rest of the time they spent stretched on their blanket by the large radiator in the living room. The tuna kept them happy when the rest of the world turned bleak. Today promises to be much milder. The fractal cats deserve the break. For me, it's work before fun. Until the next FOTD appears, most likely but not certainly 24 hours from now, take care, and watch your fractal language. Jim Muth jamth(a)mindspring.com jimmuth(a)aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ Fornever_and_Never { ; time=0:10:03.30--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=ident passes=1 center-mag=-0.03748528249124874/-1.214425735677524\ 00/2592058/1/65/1.0046787402018e-008 params=-0.8/3\ /-0.3/5/0/0 float=y maxiter=1500 periodicity=10 proximity=0.161 outside=fmod logmap=yes inside=0 colors=0004402401400400400400400400400400400400400\ 40060060060070170470671882A84D86G87I99L9AO9CR9EUAG\ XAH_AJbALfCNjCQmCRpCTnAUn9Wn8Wn7Xn6Xn4Zn4Zn4_n2_n1\ am0am0bm0bm0dm0dm0fm0fm0hm0hm0jm0jk0fk0dk0ak0_k0Zk\ 0Wk0Uj0Tj1Qj2Oj4Nj4Jj6Ij7Gh8Eh9DhAAhC9hD8hE6hG4hH4\ _N9UREOWJI_QDdW8ja4nh0tn0yv0zz0wv0pp0jj0bd2XZ4TU7N\ O9HJCCEE7AH47I2DJ1IJ0OL0UL0_N0XN0UN0RN0QN0NN0JN0IN\ 0GN0DO0CO09O07O06O04O01O00O00O00O00N00N20N60LA1LG2\ LJ4OI4QI4RI4TH6UH6XH6ZG7_G7aG7bG7fE8hE8jE8kD9mD9pD\ 9rCAtCAvCAwCArCCnCDjCDfCEbCEZCGWCGTCHOCHLCIICIECJC\ CJ9CL6CL4CN1CN4EQ8HRAJTENWHQYLT_OW`TZbXbfafjekmloq\ psuuwwwyztwzttyrpwolujgrdan_VhUPcQGYJAUG6RC1O78U4G\ _0Of0Wk0dr0ny0jzLdUzC1zECzGOzIazJntWkbfhOtdCzbEzdG\ zfHzfIzhLzjNzjOzkQzmRzmUzjWwfXpd_haaa_bUXfOWhHTjCR\ hEQfGQfHOdJObLNbNNaOL_RL_TJZUJXWIXZIW_HUaHUbHXbJ_b\ NdaQhaTkaUn_Xr__740640440 } frm:MandelbrotMix4 {; Jim Muth a=real(p1), b=imag(p1), d=real(p2), f=imag(p2), g=1/f, h=1/d, j=1/(f-b), z=(-a*b*g*h)^j, k=real(p3)+1, l=imag(p3)+100, c=fn1(pixel): z=k*((a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f)))+c, |z| < l } END 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE==================================

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Jim Muth's FOTD
by Scott D. Boyd 22 Dec '03

22 Dec '03

I will be discontinuing my daily posting of Jim Muth's FOTD at the end of the year. The past three years worth of his FOTDs will stay on my Website however. Scott Boyd sdboyd56(a)swbell.net http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/

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Re: Fractint Digest, Vol 10, Issue 7
by JackOTradez 22 Dec '03

22 Dec '03

Hey Osher - What you smokin' and where can I get some ? JoTz

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Important Message for Paul and Scott
by Jim Muth 22 Dec '03

22 Dec '03

I received this e-mail an hour or so ago: >Return-Path: <BLIVOT1(a)aol.com> >From: BLIVOT1(a)aol.com >Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 10:35:57 EST >Subject: FOTD Website >To: jamth(a)mindspring.com (Jim Muth) > >Hello Jim, >I am the owner of the federally registered trademark >Blivot which is listed in the Library of Congress. I >must ask you to eliminate the word blivot on your >website, unless you wish to be licensed by my >corporation to use my trademark. Usage of a >registered trademark and the trademark symbol without >expressed written permission is a federal offense. If >you wish to use my trademark e-mail me at > <blivot1(a)aol.com> for licensing agreement. Apparently the non-word 'blivot', which I might have used in a FOTD, is a registered trademark. Since I am not the owner of the offending web site/sites, I pass the letter on here so that Paul and/or Scott can be aware that someone might have his feathers ruffled. I have contacted the sender, telling him that the FOTD web sites are not mine. BTW, there will be no FOTD for today, December 21. Jim M.

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genetic art system
by Charles D McGee 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

i'm a longtime reader but a seldom poster, so seldom in-fact that i had to re-enroll in the list. this is the research project of my friend, kennon. he needs lots of people to use the site to get good aggregate data, and the viewers of this list could provide lots of helpful feedback. enjoy...dave please visit this website: http://studentweb.cs.bham.ac.uk/~msc92klb/ga/images.php To use this project, simply click on the images that look interesting. The first images you see are all random; click on the most interesting image and then it will load in the upper left corner and the rest will be mutations of it. To cross two images together, select two checkboxes; the page should reload automatically. Click on "random" to start with a new set of images, or click on "best" to see some of the best images generated so far. You can also change the colormap by choosing a new one from the drop down box. If an image looks interesting and you would like to look at it closer, click on the magnifying glass in the upper right corner. This is a research project designed by Kennon Ballou. Please have fun, and feedback would be greatly appreciated. Enjoy! http://studentweb.cs.bham.ac.uk/~msc92klb/ <--kennon's page

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The Edge of Connectedness
by mdoctorow＠comcast.net 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

>From Osher Doctorow Ph.D. I have been posting to the Math Forum (access it by those keywords) in the subforums Geometry-Research and Math-History-List and also to ResearchMathematics(a)yahoogroups.com and Theory-Edge(a)yahoogroups.com and somewhat to CHORA(a)liverpool.ac.uk (a philosophy forum in England) on what I will here call the Edge of Connectedness. Mathematical and Theoretical Physics (physics respectively done by Mathematicians and theorists with mathematical knowledge inside physics) appears to be presently extremely dominated by the one-step-at-a-time one-path-at-a-time people whom I call the Curvilinear School because their paths look like straight lines or bent/curved lines. Opposed to that school are a few theorists like me who adopt an Expansion- Contraction approach in which simultaneous motion in different directions is the key thing. In my postings at the above sites, I am finding that just as the Edge of Chaos plays a critical role in Fractals and Chaos theory, so the Edge of Connectedness plays a critical role in Expansion-Contraction theory. What is the Edge of Connectedness? The Expansion-Contraction school roughly maintains that the Universe itself is mostly connected, in opposition to the Curvilinear school which has concluded (to the extent that it concludes anything) that the Universe is in its foundations mostly DISCONNECTED. The Edge of Connectedness is where Connected things come close to getting Disconnected but not quite. It is exemplified by a Hole in a Connected object. Unless the Hole is so big that it tears the object in two, it ordinarily does not disconnect the object entirely. Some connected objects can be "shot through" with holes and still stay connected. We say that they are porous for example. For those members of FractInt who want to explore this, take a look at my postings above. They tie together things that have not been tied together before in the Mainstream research literature and put them in a new light. After mastering the rather simple language, you might want to take a look at the rather forbidding-sounding names Pseudodifferential Operators and Parametrix and Parametrices, and Singular Support. These keywords lead to very complicated mathematical and physics literature, but look at the abstracts and the summaries and even some of the rough English which occasionally emerges because at that difficult level even quantitative people find a certain need to gather their intuitions verbally (not so much in Curvilinear mathematics, however). Osher Doctorow

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FOTD 20-12-03 (Baubles and Things [3])
by Jim Muth 20 Dec '03

20 Dec '03

FOTD -- December 20, 2003 (Rating 3) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Have no fear, fractal fans. Despite my announcement that I will likely miss a few FOTD's between now and the first of the year and Scott's announcement that he will no longer be posting the new FOTD images on his web site after the first of the year, the FOTD will continue basically uninterrupted into the indefinite (but most likely not eternal) future. People might be temporary but fractals are forever. Today's image is a loser. I named it "Baubles and Things" because it reminds me of what one might see if they were to pull open a small drawer that hasn't been opened in years. Also, the name reminds me of one of the 'trendy' names one might see on a near-useless store that has replaced a very-useful store in the downtown section of some 'rejuvenated' small town. The rating of a 3 is a gift. The image is a scene in the grossly-bloated parent fractal that results when 5.5 parts of Z^(-0.93) are subtracted from 5.7 parts of Z^(-0.77) and (1/C) is added. Despite the near totally- chaotic nature of the scene, it was rendered by the convention- al, old-fashioned equal-iteration-band method. When rendered with the outside=tdis, the image becomes even more chaotic, though some may prefer the 'tdis' version. Today's pathetic image renders in 14 minutes, about 14 times as long as it is worth. But you may get what you paid for by downloading the completed GIF image from Paul's web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> I will no longer list the address of Scott's FOTD web site. After the first of the year, he will no longer be adding the new FOTD images to his site. Friday was quite cold here at Fractal Central, with a tempera- ture that hovered just above the freezing mark all day and a few flakes of snow thrown in for fun. The fractal cats had no fun however. They spent the day sleeping on their blanket by the radiator. Today looks to be a repeat. I have a small to moderate amount of work to finish before I start the search for the next FOTD. So until the next FOTD appears in either one or two days, take care and take care again. Jim Muth jamth(a)mindspring.com jimmuth(a)aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ Baubles_and_Things { ; time=0:14:21.72--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=-351.30556131984170000/+388.73448651068\ 660000/7404.484/1/102.5/3.8578131286715056e-008 params=-5.5/-0.93/5.7/-0.77/0/8 float=y maxiter=3600 inside=0 logmap=280 periodicity=10 colors=000PFVMDYLC_LCaKBcKBeJBfJAhIAjI9lH9nH9oG8qG\ 8sF7uF7wF7xGKvGXtGirZYGYUBXQ7ZV6__6ad5bh5cbKUQYdTk\ `QcXOWUMOQJGzc8JF1iOekQfmSgoTgqVhsWhuYivZiqagldegg\ dbjbYm`Tp_OsYJvXQo`WhdaahgVlmOpsHtyAxxGtxMqxSmxYjw\ cgwicwo`wtYnufevoXvx_wqaxkbvgbudbtabrYbqVbpSboPVeW\ OXaHNhAEn_9fx5Zq6Zj7Zc8ZX8ZQ9ZJAZCBZ5BZEDaNFdVGfJP\ p8YzBZqD_hF__H`RJ`JIXGHUEMQPRN_WJj`GtaKqbNncRkcUhd\ Xee`bfc_ffXeVWdKVc9UfHWiPXlXYod_rl`tsaVYU5DMAEbFMd\ KTfO_gSKEVKFYKG`KGcKHfKIiKJlKKoKLrKMuKMsLOrMQpNSoO\ TmOVlPXjQYiR_gRafSbdTdcUfbUgfQjjMmnIprEsvAvtClrDbq\ EToFJnGAiUUeWcMZZ3VV6SX8PZBN`DKbGIdIFfLChNAjQUlSUn\ TUdUUVVULWUBWU2VU5UU7TUATUCSUERUHQUJQZLPZOOZQNZTNc\ VMcXLc_KcaKccKcZKcVKhQKmMJrJJvHJzEIzCIz9Iz7Iz5LzAO\ zERzITzMWzQZzU`zYczafzehzikzmnzqpzuqzqrzmrzjszfszb\ tz_tzWuzTvzPvzLwzIwzExzAxz7yz3yz0xz1wz1vz1uz2tz2sz\ 2rz2nz6jzAgzDczH_zKXzOTzR } frm:MandelbrotMix4 {; Jim Muth a=real(p1), b=imag(p1), d=real(p2), f=imag(p2), g=1/f, h=1/d, j=1/(f-b), z=(-a*b*g*h)^j, k=real(p3)+1, l=imag(p3)+100, c=fn1(pixel): z=k*((a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f)))+c, |z| < l } END 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE==================================

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Thanks for providing the space for the FOTD.
by Hal Lane 20 Dec '03

20 Dec '03

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 13:08:40 -0600, Scott D. Boyd wrote: > I will be discontinuing my daily posting of Jim Muth's FOTD at the >end of the year. The past three years worth of his FOTDs will stay >on my Website however. >Scott Thanks for providing the space for Jim Muth's Fractal Of The Day images. I often view them on your and Paul's sites. - Hal Lane ############################## # hallaneAT earthlinkDOT net # ############################## --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 6.0.553 / Virus Database: 345 - Release Date: 12/18/03

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