FOTD -- August 24, 2012 (Rating 7) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's FOTD is a bit late, mostly because of the hour or so it took me to read and try to decipher a group of e-mails I received from Sebastien, who appears to have interesting things to say but has so much trouble saying them. When my deductive overload became too severe, I turned to the world of fractals. The exponent of Z in today's fractal is 1.189207115, which is the square root of the square root of 2, or the 4th root of 2. This unlikely value was iterated 2 levels up the hyperladder with the 'recip' function applied. The resulting parent fractal appears as a large, almost budless, bay with the southwest side cut off and a single period-3 bud on the northeast shore line. I can find no trace of the period-2 but that would be expected. A series of chaotic stripes extends southwest from the bay, with today's image located somewhere in this chaos. The name "Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony" refers to the effect of curled satin ribbons, which was achieved by rendering the scene with the outside set to 'tdis' The rating of a 7 indicates that I consider the image average. The calculation time of 35 seconds guarantees no thrill, but it does guarantee that little time will be spent on the way to a possible letdown. The finished image is at: <http://www.crosscanpuzzles.com/Archives.html> The hi-def version is at: <http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/jim_muths_fotd.html> The back images are at: <http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/> Hazy sun, increased humidity and a temperature of 86F 30C made the day a typical late August one here at Fractal Central. The fractal cats enjoyed the conditions from inside. They never worry about things like T.S. Isaac. The people of New Orleans will supply all the worry the storm demands. The humans concerned themselves with more mundane things such as the slow response the CrossScan puzzles are getting. My opinion is that we should mix in some number stuff, but FL doesn't like numbers. The next FOTD *WILL* be posted. The exact time will be revealed when the image appears. Until whenever, take care, and I see there has been another big-news shooting. Maybe we should pass another law. How about making it a hate crime to kill anyone with a firearm? Jim Muth jimmuth@earthlink.net START PARAMETER FILE======================================= RibonCutingCermony { ; time=0:00:35.00 SF5 at 2000MHZ reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm formulaname=MandelbrotBC3 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=-0.21817277/-1.24188131/255/1/127.5/0 params=1.189207115/0/2/0 float=y maxiter=5000 inside=0 outside=tdis periodicity=6 colors=000qERoKXmQckWjjapgbmdbkaciZcgXceUdcRd`OeZM\ eXJeVGfTDfRBfPHaQNXRTSSZNTdIUjEVkIWlLXmOXnRYoUYoXZ\ p`_qc_rf`si`tlatoasl_siZsfYrcXr`WrYVqVUqSTqPRpMQpJ\ PpGOoDNoAMo7Lo5KkBLgGMcMN`RNXWOTaPPfQMkQBDwIGnPIeV\ LYaNPgPHhOJiOKjOLkOMlONmOOnOQoORpOSqOTrOUsOV`7o_Gk\ ZOgYXcXd_WlWUjUShTRfSPdRNbQM`PKZOJXNHVLFTKERJCPIAN\ H9LG7JF6HE7IS7Jd7KqNOraSsYVrVXqRZpO`pKboHcnFbnPZrZ\ TuhQoqNjuWdvd_wlUxqPuoNrlMoiLlfKicIf`HcYG`VFYSDVPC\ SMBPJAMG8JD7GA6D75HFNKMcRQbYTbdWbkZbrabxdbt_YqVUnQ\ QkLMgGHdBDa69Z25`C8bMBdVEfdHhnKjwNdcSabUmbWmaXmaZm\ a`S`aQ`cO_eM_fK_zIZzGZzEYzCYzAmp9mm8mj8mh7me6bb6z`\ 5dY4dV4eTuuQzvNzwLzxIzyFzyDzoJzfPzIVz9`zQbzfczXbzO\ bGFbJHcMJcPLcSNcUOcXQd_SdbUdeWdgXdjZem`epbesdeueet\ bfs`grZhqWiqUjpSkoQlnNmmLnmJolGpkEqjCrjAsjYSjt0gr1\ ep2cn3al4_j4Xh5Vf6Td7Rb8P`8TXAXTD_OFcKHgGKkCMn8Oo7\ Pp6Qq5Rr5Ss4Ts3Ut2Vu2Wv1X } frm:MandelbrotBC3 { ; by several Fractint users e=p1, a=imag(p2)+100 p=real(p2)+PI q=2*PI*fn1(p/(2*PI)) r=real(p2)+PI-q Z=C=Pixel: Z=log(Z) IF(imag(Z)>r) Z=Z+flip(2*PI) ENDIF Z=exp(e*(Z+flip(q)))+C |Z|<a } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================