FOTD -- May 22, 2003 (Rating 8) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's image is what yesterday's should have been. Looking at yesterday's image one day later, I see that I over-rated it. It now looks more like a 6 than a 7. But regardless of the true value of yesterday's image, today's image, which mirror's yesterday's, rates a true 8. In fact, if I had more time to color today's image, I might have been able to work it into a 9-rater. As it is, the colors are a bit gaudy, a flaw which costs one rating point. Today's image is located on the northwest edge of the fan, where the fan blends into the surrounding area. Like yesterday's image, today's lies in a vague spiral arrangement in a kind of pseudo-valley. I studied the image for several minutes before I noticed the claw-like features and named it "Fractal Claws". These claws are not to be confused with Santa Claus, whose reality lies somewhere in the range of today's image. In both cases, we can see the picture but not the object. The always-annoying render time of today's image is 15 minutes on my machine, but can be bypassed by letting Paul and Scott do the rendering and going to one of their web sites to view the image. The URL of Paul's site is: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> Scott's site is at: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> The all-day rain here at Fractal Central on Wednesday made the fractal cats very unhappy. The temperature of 55F 13C made them even more unhappy. They spent a few minutes under the cover of the porch roof, but soon realized that a pleasant afternoon in the yard was simply not going to happen. They consoled them- selves by sleeping. Today promises more of the same, and in addition, I have more work to do. So until next FOTD, take care, and is today's fractal as real as Santa? Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ Fractal_Claws { ; time=0:15:34.54--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix2 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+4.19356285882042800/-1.852233346795663\ 00/4434460/1/-2.5/2.4608337104159439e-009 params=-10/-1.1/-1/-11/0/525/0/0 float=y maxiter=2400 inside=0 logmap=267 periodicity=10 colors=000j`hiaihbihbigcjfdjfdjeejdfkdfkcgkbhlbhla\ il`jl`jm_kmZlmZlnYmnXnnUpmXnn_lobjpehqgfrjdsmbtp`u\ sZvx_zuYwsWuqVroTpmSnkQkiPigNgeLdcKbaI__HYYFWWETUC\ RTAOSBPRBQQBRQBSPBTOBUNBVNBWMBXLBYKBZKB_JB`IBaHBbH\ BbGBcFBdEBeEBfDBgCBhBBiBBjABk9Bl8Bm8Bn7Bo6Bp6Bp9Fq\ CIqELqHOqJRqMUrPXrR_rUbrWerVfqUgqThqSiqRjqQjqPkqOl\ qNmqMnqLnqKoqKpqJqqIrqHrqGsqFtrEusDvtCvuBwvAxw9yx8\ zyAzz6tk5ne4h_2bU1XO0SIDZJQeKblLnsMmqNmoNmmOmlOmjO\ mhPlfPlePlcQlaQl_RlZRkXRkVSkTSkSSkQTkOTkMUjLUjJUjH\ VjFVjEVjCWiAWi8Xi7Xi5Xi3Yi1Yi0Yg1Xf2Wd2Wc3Vb3Va4U`\ 4U_5T_5TY6SX6SW7RV8QU8QT9PS9PRAOQAOPBNOBNNCMMCMLDL\ KDLKJJRPHYUFd_DhbCkdBn`BpWBsSAuNAxJAzFAxGGwGLuGQtG\ VrG_qHeoHjnHolHtkHyjIxiJxhJwgKwfKveLvdMueMugNuiNtk\ OtmPsoPsqQrsQruRqwSqxSqyTpzTpzUozVozVnzWnzWkzWnzFq\ zHpzIozJnzLnzMmzNlzOlzQkzRjzSjzUizVhzWhzXgzZfz_fz`\ ezbdzcdzdczebzgbzhazi`zj` } frm:MandelbrotMix2 {; 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)+(p4)), 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==================================