FOTD -- November 09, 2002 (Rating 6) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: With today's much improved image we rise out of the abysmal depths of yesterday's failed attempt to find fractal worth. Today's image rates a 6, which is actually a bit above average. It's not too great a jump, but it's better than nothing. I named the picture "Intaglio". I can give no definite reason for choosing such a name. The word simply came to mind when I studied the image, which actually resembles thinly stretched blueish cloths more than a carved image. The iterated expression that drew the image combines some Z^(-2.5) with about one-tenth as much Z^3, then adds (1/C). The parent fractal is a bloated Mandeloid with its nose to the east, on the verge of exploding and turning inside-out. The numbers catch the parent at a point where its sides have ballooned out to grotesque proportions, leaving the 'main' period-2 bud with its straight stem virtually invisible. Though the stem is small, it is there however, and scattered fractal debris lies beyond its tip. Today's midget lies near a larger midget that lies in this debris, just beyond the tip of the stem of its parent. When rendered with my usual outside=equal-iteration-band method, today's scene has little to note. But in today's image I have set the outside to < tdis >, a method that colors the points according to how far they have travelled before escaping. This, along with some serendipitous coloring, raised the ordinarily humdrum scene from a rating of 5 to one of 6. The render time of today's image on my P200 machine ranges from 1min 7sec with a clean boot to 1min 25sec with all the peripheral drivers loaded. Either way it's a fast render. The download of the completed image is just as fast however, and may be found on the internet at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> and at: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> The Friday weather was sunny and mild, with a cat-pleasing temperature of 61F 16C. Accordingly, the cats were pleased. The aging ones spent several hours in the yard, attempting to romp, but actually spending more time sleeping, occasionally waking only long enough to shift position to follow the ever- moving patches of sunlight. I spent the day wrapping up another week's work. Today is starting sunny and even warmer, and for a change I have no work waiting. It should be an interesting day. To see how interesting, check back in 24 hours for the next FOTD. Until then, take care, and keep your fractal side up. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ Intaglio { ; time=0:01:24.91--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=-0.35372493402194550/+0.155106779433557\ 40/1.5027e+007/1/90/-1.23373533611470521e-014 params=2.75/-2.5/0.22/3/0/0 float=y maxiter=282 inside=0 outside=tdis periodicity=10 colors=000xJ9xH7xF4xM8xRBrYFlbIdhKYmOQtRKyUJb8L`EN\ `JP`OQ`ST`YU_bX_gY_k`_pa_uc_y``xYbwWcuTdtQfsOgsLhq\ JjpFknDlmAmm7nl6pk6qj6sh6th6uk6ul6um7unAupDuqFusHu\ tKwuNwwPwxSwyUwzXwz_wzgSz_tzYszXqxWpwUotTmuSlpSknY\ bx``z_ZzXWxUUtSRpPQmNNjKKfHIbEH_6KZAMYEOWJQUNRSQUR\ UVOYYNaZMe_Kc`Na`O_bQYbRWcUUcVSdWQdYPf_Nf`LgbJgcHh\ fEhgDjhBjjO`lYUmiMnuEpz5qz0sz5fzEU_MILU46_0Ab0Dc8F\ dFJfNLgVOh`QjhTknWmqYpt_swauxdxzezzhzzizzjzzjzzjzz\ jzzjzxjzwlyulxtlxqlwplunlumOfR6S36NDEJMNFVUBca7li3\ uq0zn4zl9wiEsfJpdNlaSh_YfX`bUfZSjWYk_clcimgnnktpnx\ qsxswxsynfdq_gsVhvQjxKkxFlx9mx4nx7pw8prBpnDqiEqeHq\ `IqXKsSMsONsJQsERt9Ut6Vt6Wt6Yp9YlDYjHYfLYcPY_TYWXY\ U`YQdYNhYJlYHmVMmURmSWnR_nQdnOjpNmpMspKxpJzsQswWkx\ bbxhVxnNxz`xjsxMznbnasVPz9OzDNzENxFLuILqJKmKKjNJgO\ PBVHcQH_SFWUFUVEQYEMZDI_6h56d96`E6ZH7VK9SOAORBMVDI\ ZmzmjxlxZQxWNxUKxRIxOFxMD } 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==================================