FOTD -- July 27, 2003 (Rating 5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's fractal is a different kind of thing. It is so different in fact that I don't know what to call it. It is like nothing I have seen before, and this is why I named it "Nothing in Sight". I realize that this could raise the philosophical puzzle of whether nothing is actually something, but this is not really a puzzle at all. When a fish sees a gas bubble rising to the surface, it does not see an absence of water, it sees a real object that, assuming fish understand gravity, defies gravity. For that fish, nothing has literally become something. And is not a positron nothing more than the lack of a negative charge? In today's fractal, we are once again in the vicinity of the blazing rectangle of the past two FOTD's. But we have rotated a full 90 degrees from the Julia direction and are viewing the scene in the Rectangular direction, where imag(z) and imag(c) are displayed on the screen. The image has been rotated and unrotated, stretched and unstretched, skewed and unskewed so far that I have lost track of its undistorted appearance. Actually, the undistorted image is the distorted view, and the stretching, etc. is necessary to undistort it. The appearance of X-axis symmetry is illusory. A close inspection will reveal subtle differences. The image is more a curiosity than a work of art, and as such can be rated no higher than a rating of an average 5. (With all the average ratings I give my images, I would make a very poor salesperson.) The render time of 5 minutes is within reason. Downloading the completed image from: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> or from: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> is also quite reasonable. A hot day Saturday brought out the laziness in the fractal cats. Of course, it takes very little to bring out laziness in old cats. When the temperature hit 90F 32C, they hit their beds, and stayed there most of the afternoon. They didn't get active until the sun was gone from the yard, when they took a short stroll to the holly thicket. Today is supposed to be even hotter, though to me it seems to be starting cooler. It remains to be seen how the duo will adjust. I'm going to adjust by doing as little as possible, except in the world of fractals that is. Until next FOTD, take care, and I do not believe that physical aliens from space are visiting earth, but why then does it concern me so much when I see others who do believe we are being visited? Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ Nothing_in_Sight { ; time=0:05:28.89--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=julibrot.frm formulaname=SliceJB-new passes=1 center-mag=-0.000\ 01046291457683/+0.02511627776549527/1353.851/0.065\ 63/89.9392475138482297/0.0607524861518090667 params=0.5/0.5/0/0.5/2.003/0/-1.7435/0/0.00019/0.0\ 7388 float=y maxiter=1000 inside=bof61 logmap=51 periodicity=10 colors=000GADIAFJAHKAJMALNANPAPQARSBTTBVUBXWBZXC`Z\ Cb_Cd`CfbChcDjeDlfDngDpiErjEtlEvmExnEzoGzpIzpKzqMz\ qOzrQzrSzsUzsWztYzt_wubtueqvhnvklwnjwqhytgywhzwhzw\ hzmczjfzgizdczaYzZTzWNzTHzQCyN6xK1wJ5uI9sHDqGHoFLm\ FOkESiDWgC_eBccBfaAj_9nY8rW7vU7yS9wQAuOBsMCqKDoKEm\ MFkOGjQHhSIfTJdVKbXL`ZMZ`NYbOWcPUeQSgRQiSOkTMlULhS\ MdQM`OMXMMTKMPIMLGMHEMDCM9AM59MF8MO7MX6Me6Mc7La8L`\ 9KZAKXBKWCJUDJTEJRFIPGIOIHMKHKMHJOGHQGGSGEUFCWFBYE\ 9_E7aE6cD4eD3gD6iE8kFBmGDnHGnIImJLlKNkLPjMSiNUhOXg\ PZfQaeRcdSecTd`SdYRdWQdTPcQOcONcLMcILcGKbHNaIP`JSZ\ KVYLXXM_WMaUNdTOgSPiRQlPRoOSqNTtLSwMTvMTvMTvMTvNTv\ NTvNTvNTvNUvOUvOUvOUvOUvPUvPUvPUvPVuRVuQVuUVuQVuXV\ uRVu_VuRWubWuRWueWuSWuhWuSWukYvSXunWuTVtqVtUUttTsU\ SswSsVRrzQrWPrzPqXOqzOqYQpzSpZUozWo_Yoz_n_anzcn`em\ zgmaimzklbmlzopaqnzslcukzwiezhzzfgzdzzcizazz`kzZzz\ YlzWzzUnzTzzRpzQzzODzfzza } frm:SliceJB-new {; by John R. H. Goering, July 1999 pix=pixel, u=real(pix), v=imag(pix), a=pi*real(p1), b=pi*imag(p1), g=pi*real(p2), d=pi*imag(p2), ca=cos(a), cb=cos(b), sb=sin(b), cg=cos(g), sg=sin(g), cd=cos(d), sd=sin(d), p=u*cg*cd-v*(ca*sb*sg*cd+ca*cb*sd), q=u*cg*sd+v*(ca*cb*cd-ca*sb*sg*sd), r=u*sg+v*ca*sb*cg, s=v*sin(a), c=p+flip(q)+(p4), z=r+flip(s)+(p5): z=z^(p3)+c |z|<=9 } END 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE==================================