[Fractint] Castle

30 Jul 2012

      This fractal is called Castle. When viewed in 3D, it has an outside wall
with towers along the edge.

The formula is z = 1 /( 1 / ((z + 2 + c) - 1 / (z - 2 + c))) which is
similar to the formula for parallel resistors from electrical engineering.
It took Fracton 25 minutes to make the model on my 8 core Mac Pro. The
model has 1.5 million vertices and 2.3 million faces. The 3D image and
animation were rendered in Cheetah 3D. Here is a link to a web page:

http://www.fracton.org/fmlposts/castle.html

I will also list the PAR file here for the mail list archivists:

castle { ; Exported from Fracton.
 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=fracton.frm
 formulaname=F_20120730_1032 passes=1 float=y
 center-mag=-0.666966319204264/4.031208046200374e-1\
 0/166666.66875/1/0/0
 params=-1/1/1/1/-2/0/2/0/0/0 maxiter=2000
 inside=16 periodicity=6
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frm:F_20120730_1032 {
; Similar to the parallel resistance formula
a=real(p1),b=real(p2),d=imag(p1),f=imag(p2),
z=0,c1=pixel-p3,c2=pixel-p4:
z=1/(1/(a*(z^b)+c1)+1/(d*(z^f)+c2)),
|z|<100
}

-- 
Mike Frazier
www.fracton.org