[Fractint] FOTD 07-06-03 (First Flight [6])

7 Jun 2003

      FOTD -- June 07, 2003 (Rating 6)

Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's image takes us into even lower territory -- down below 
yesterday's Z^(1.04) into the land of Z^(1.025)+C.  Down in 
these depths, the chaos becomes harder to find, but as today's 
image shows, it is still there.

The lengthy real(p2) parameter shows that the value was found by 
the Fractint randomizer.  I could have rounded it to a 7 with 
little change in the parent fractal.

Yesterday's image reminded me of a fleet of fantastic space 
craft taking off from a Martian invasion base.  Today's image 
reminds me of jagged shards of something being swept up and away 
into infinite space by a sudden wind.  Since the wind is the 
first in thousands of years to blow in this particular place, I 
named the image "First Flight".

Today's image attempts the same effect as yesterday's superior 
image, but compared to that image, today's rates only a 6.  But 
today's image is not without its interest.  Despite the almost 
total descent into chaos, there are still traces of order in the 
image.  The curving trails of bright debris in the background 
appear on the verge of organizing and creating a new class of 
order.  I must examine this tendency of chaos to organize in 
fractals with exponents even closer to unity.

The 16-minute render time can be avoided by 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>

A mostly cloudy but mild day here at Fractal Central on Friday 
left the duo of fractal cats satisfied.  After spending the 
afternoon enjoying the temperature of 75F 24C, they ended the 
day enjoying a treat of turkey.  Their moods will be far less 
pleasant today however.  It is already raining, heavy rain is 
forecast and a flood watch is in effect.

I'm going to spend the day searching for fractals, working on 
the CD, or just plain watching the rain.  Until next time, take 
care, and let's see a few Mandelbrot midgets.

Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com
jimmuth@aol.com

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frm:MandelbrotBC1   { ; by several Fractint users
  e=p1, a=imag(p2)+100
  p=real(p2)+PI
  q=2*PI*fn1(p/(2*PI))
  r=real(p2)-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 }

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