Greetings and Hallucinations fellow Fractal eXplorerZ! I have been playing with Chaos for about 8 years now, and have thousands and thousands of images. Many from CD's I bought, many from downloads; many downloaded formula and PAR files, and the ones I have made myself. Many (>50%) are mediocre and lame, some of the rest are good. About 10% are really good. And every now and then I come across one that literally makes my eyes widen and jaw drop. I am not sure where I downloaded this, but it was very recently. I felt inclined to post it and share it. On a P3-733, the 1600x1200 image takes 22 minutes. Copy and paste this into notepad, name the file: mmix_lak.frm ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; BEGIN mmix_lak.frm ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; MMix4-lake-0084 { ; 6990726 - Formula by Sylvie Gallet & Jim Muth ; MandelbrotMix4 parameters (hard-coded): ; ------------------------- p_p1 = (1,2) p_p2 = (81.5,-100) p_p3 = (-0.95,10000) ; Function: i ; User-selectable Lake parameters: ; ------------------------------- ; real part of p2: 0 = lake transform disabled ; any value between 0 and 100: water level in % of ; the screen height (0 = bottom, 100 = top) ; imag part of p2: phase ; real part of p3: amplitude of the wave (try 0.2) ; imag part of p3: frequency (try 300) ; Lake transformation (Sylvie Gallet) ; ------------------- if (real(p2) > 0 && real(p2) <= 100) level = real(p2) / 100 ; water level phase = imag(p2) ; phase ampl = real(p3) ; amplitude of the wave freq = imag(p3) ; frequency angle = real(rotskew * pi / 180) exp_irot = exp(-flip(angle)) h = 1 / real(magxmag) w = h / 0.75 * imag(magxmag) tanskew = tan(imag(rotskew * pi / 180)) u = 2 * w * exp_irot v = 2 * h * (tanskew + flip(1)) * exp_irot z3rd = center + (-w-h*tanskew - flip(h)) * exp_irot z = pixel - z3rd b = imag(conj(u)*z) / imag(conj(u)*v) if (b <= level) dy = level - b z = z + 2*dy * (1+ampl*sin(freq*dy^0.2 + phase)) * v endif pixel = z + z3rd endif ; Modified MandelbrotMix4 formula (Jim Muth) ; ------------------------------- a = real(p_p1) , b = imag(p_p1) , d = real(p_p2) , f = imag(p_p2) g = 1/f , h = 1/d , j = 1/(f-b) , z = (-a*b*g*h)^j k = real(p_p3) + 1 , l = imag(p_p3) + 100 , c = fn1(pixel) : z = k*(a*(z^b) + d*(z^f)) + c |z| < l } ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; END mmix_lak.frm ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Copy and paste this into notepad, name the file: lhslakes.par ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; BEGIN LHSLAKES.PAR ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; 6ml08402 { ; ; ; Image Copyright 2000 by Lee H. Skinner ver=2000 ; Version 2000 Patchlevel 8 reset=2000 type=formula formulafile=mmix_lak.frm formulaname=mmix4-lake-0084 function=ident passes=1 center-mag=-27.441/-0.000702002/11.62791/1/90 params=0/0/33.33/0/0.2/300 float=y maxiter=2500 bailout=25 inside=0 logmap=9 symmetry=none periodicity=10 colors=000D`z<3>7hz5kz4mz2oz0rz<2>1nv2lu3jt4hr4gq<10>CPbDN`EL_<2>GGWGFVG\ FT<5>EALE9KE9J<3>C6DB5CB5B<3>A48937B37<36>rG6sH6tH6<2>xI6zJ5zH5zE6<3>ZF7\ SF7LF7E07707<13>JWHKYIK_J<2>NgL<13>ntmpuorvq<2>xywzzzzzx<10>zyVzySzyQzyN\ zyKzxH<3>zw7zw8<10>zg3ze3zd2<2>z_1zY0yX1<3>rR9pPBnODlMFjK0<8>sh`tkeuni<2\
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;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; END LHSLAKES.PAR ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; "As I stand on a tropical beach gazing out across the Ocean to the horizon, Behold! The gates of Heaven have opened and the Throne of thrones arises, adorned in turquoise and gold. Let all stand in awe and wonder and give Praise, for the Great One has come!" (now if I can figure a way to animate this one ...) Stay Amazed! JoTz