FOTX -- June 10, 2016 (Rating A-8,M-6) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: The name of today's FOTX image is "Lucid Dreams", though I would never wish to find myself in such a place in a waking dream. With its fire and smoke, it might even be the entrance to the place where bad people go in the next world. But the scene shows nothing like any of this otherworldly stuff. It's actually a scene near a larger minibrot very deep in an infected filament sprouting from the northern period-3 bud of a Mandelbrot set that is corrupted in its depths by cubic energies. The fiery lightning flashes and clouds of billowing smoke were created by rendering the scene with the outside set to 'tdis', an option that often works better than the basic iteration count outside fill. The calculation time of just over 1-1/2 minutes is true on my 18-year-old machine with a Pentium processor running at 200mhz. On any more recent unit the image would run almost instantly. I rated the art aspect an an 8 because of the strong feeling of unpleasantness it produces. And there's nothing wrong with unpleasantness. After all, who ever decided that proper fractal images should resemble fields of flowers. The math rates only a 6 because the trick has been overused recently. Maybe it's time to return to the warhorse FOTD formula, the 'MandAutoCritInZ', which has created the greater part of the really good FOTD images, or one of the other half dozen or so formulas that have helped created the FOTD's. With sunny skies and a temperature of 75F 24C, the weather was near perfect here at Fractal Central today. Along with the light work, this gave us a chance to sit and enjoy the fractal garden, which is always there but too often taken for granted. The next FOTX, (or FOTD if you wish), will be posted possibly as soon as tomorrow. Until whenever, take care, and whatever the quantum might turn out to be, it sure will be interesting. Jim Muth jimmuth@earthlink.net START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Lucid_Dreams { ; time=0:01:43.26 SF5 at 2000MHZ reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm formulaname=FinDivBrot-2 function=recip inside=0 center-mag=-0.156049430528614/+1.110527401294699\ /1.17e+013/1/72.5/0 params=3/333/0/0 float=y maxiter=1500 outside=tdis mathtolerance=0.05/1 colors=000CpEAnG9mIDcLGVOJMRLOONQMPRKRTITVFVWDXYBY\ Z9XiYXtuSlnNdhIXbEPXCVYA_Z8e_6j`4pa2uaCp`Ll_VgZccZ\ bYbbSebNhaHlaCoa6ra1u`5o_8jZBdYE_YHVTJWOKWJLWFNWAO\ W5PW1QW9VZHZaPbdWfgcjjknmsrpzvryqqxlqwhqvcpu_ptVps\ RplVlfZi_aeUebOiZHlWBpS5sP6mO6gO7aN7WN8QN8KM9EM88K\ 99M9AOABPACRADS89N76I53D408A19F2AL3BQ3BW4C`5Df6Ek6\ EoFKtNPzVUzcZzkczshztbzuYzvczwczzczzczzczfc7zf7zh8\ zgKzgKzfUzfczeczeczgczhcziczjwzzwzzwzzwzzwzzwzzwzz\ wzzwzzwzzwzzwzzwzzwzzwzzwzzwzzwzzwzzwzzwzzwzzwzzwz\ zwzwwzwwzmwzmwzgwzcwzTwzRwzPwzOwzKwzHwzEwzBwz8wzFw\ zMwzTwz_wzfwzmwztwzzwzpwzgwzZwzQwzHwbUwZewVqwMiwNd\ wN_wOWwORwONVONVONUNMUNMUNMTNMTNLTMLTMLSMLSMLSLKRL\ KRLKRLKRLKRLKQKJQKJQKJPKJPJIPJIOJIOJIOIIOIHNIHeLTh\ GNYFINEDCD81D45O89YBAcBBiBCoBDuBOg9ZU7iG5s34lC6eL8\ _TATaCNiEGrGAzILlQWZYfMdeLedLecLebKfaKf`Kf`KfAlfCj\ hDijEglFfmGeoHcqIbsFsADqC } frm:FinDivBrot-2 { ; Jim Muth z=(0,0), c=pixel, a=-(real(p1)-2), esc=(real(p2)+16), b=imag(p1): z=(b)*(z*z*fn1(z^(a)+b))+c |z| < esc } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================