FOTD -- January 28, 2002 (Rating 5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Sometimes I like to take fractals to the extreme. This may be an extreme magnitude, or an extremely large or small exponent, or some manmade extreme thing, such as an extreme number of layers (not possible with Fractint). Today's fractal, which is a scene in Seahorse Valley of our old friend, the Mandelbrot set, takes us to the extreme maxiter of 1,200,000. At a setting of 68,000, the logmap of today's image is also rather extreme. I have no records of FOTD logmap values, but today's value might set a new record for the FOTD. Despite the extremism however, the image rates only an average 5. And what does all this extremism do? To start, it enables one to sit back and go "wow!" It also can give a very grainy appearance to the image, which is the inspiration for the name "Sandy Bottom", which I gave to today's image. One of the more incredible concepts of today's image is the fact that some of the points have been iterated over 1-million times without going into a loop, and only then have finally escaped. One unfortunate feature of the extreme fractals is the slowness of the calculation. On my worn-out machine, today's image takes 1-1/2 hours to render. But as soon as Scott gets the calculation finished, the GIF image will be available on his web site at: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> The fractal weather Sunday here at Fractal Central was once again great for cats and people alike. The maximum possible sun, light winds, and temperature of 64F 18C made everyone happy. The fractal cats were so happy in fact that their exuberance boiled over into a brief quarrel. But saner heads prevailed, and the combatants separated before any blows were struck. Today promises to be just as perfect if not more perfect than Sunday. Today however, I have a bit of work to get out of the way before I let the dynamic duo into the yard. And the way to get finished is to get started. So until next time, take care, and don't work too hard unless it's on a fractal. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Sandy_Bottom { ; time=1:32:06.74--SF5 on a p200 reset=2002 type=mandel passes=1 center-mag=-0.7469\ 3897237087280/+0.07361680027292958/2.524651e+010/1\ /-80/3.00899839776672118e-005 params=0/0 float=y maxiter=1200000 inside=0 logmap=-68000 colors=000LACNACQBBSBBUBBXCAZCA`CAbFBcICdLDfOEgRFh\ UGjXHk_IlbJneKohLpkMrnNsqOttPmqTfnX_l`UidNfhGdl9ap\ 3_t3`q3`o3`m3`k3ah3af3ad3ab3a`9YXEUTJQPONMTJIYFEbC\ B_BAYAAW9AU8AS8AQ7AO6AM5AK4AI4AG3AE2AC1AA0A80AB2CD\ 3DG4EI5FK6GN7HP8IS9KUALWBMZCN`DOcEPeFQgGRgIPhJOhLN\ hMMhOLhQJhRIhTHiUGiWFiXDiZCi_BiaAib9gcCedEcdGaeI_f\ LYfNWgPUhRShTQiWOiYMj_KkaIkcGlfEmhCmjAnl8nnCllFkjI\ jhLhgOgeRfcUdbXc``bZc`Yf_WiZUlXToWRrVPuUOnSPhQQbPR\ XNSRMSTPUVRWWTYYW__Y``_bbbdcdfefggiihkkjmmkonlmomk\ onioogpphpqiprjqskqtlqumrvnrworxpyyqyyryysyytyyuyy\ vyywyyxyyyyzzyzzyzzyzzyzzyzzyzzyzzyzzyuzvqzsmzpizm\ ezjazgYzdUzaVzbVzcVzcVzdVzdVzeWzfWzfWzgWzgWzhWzhXz\ iXzjXzjXzkXzkXzlXzlUzGSzFRzFQzFPzEOzENzEMzDKzDJzDI\ zCHzCGzCFzBEzBCzBBzAAzA9zA8z97z96z9KzDQzMWzVazcgzl\ ezgdzccz_bzWazS`zO_zKazIczHezGgzFizDjzClzBnzApz8rz\ 7tz6uz5sz6qz6oz7mz7kz7iz8 } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================