FOTD October 27, 2003 Fractal from December 18, 1991 Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today, we have a truly ancient fractal -- one from long before the FOTD was even dreamed of. The date of the original image file is December 18, 1991. I have no idea what version of Fractint it was created with, though my guess is that it was created with version 15.13, which came with the first edition (1991) of 'Fractal Creations'. The second edition was not published until 1993. Regardless of its origin, the image represents the kind of fractal work I was doing 12 years ago, at a time when I was fascinated with high-order fractals. The high-order period was brief, as I soon discovered that the images all look pretty much the same. But a few high-order images, such as today's scene in the Z^10+C Mandeloid, still stand out. Since the image is so old, I have named it "Ancient Mandeloid". I gave it no rating, feeling that it would be meaningless to compare a 12-year-old image to those I am producing today. The parameter file, which was created by the current version of Fractint from data encoded in the original GIF image file, runs in a speedy 4+ minutes. And to save even more time, the completed image has been posted to: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> and to: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> A partly sunny, 73F 23C day here at Fractal Central gave the dynamic but gradually-slowing-down cats a pleasant Sunday in the yard. As for myself, the work backup is down to around one day -- small enough to be eliminated with a few more extra-long workdays. It looks as though the ongoing FOTD is still on schedule for a resumption this coming Saturday. For tomorrow, the good news is that I'll post a image from the 1980's, when I was just discovering the world of fractals. The bad news is that it will have to be picked up from one of the FOTD web sites. The image was originally saved in .pcx format and the parameters have long since been lost. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Ancient_Mandeloid { ; time=0:04:15.56--SF5 on a p200 reset=2002 type=manzpower center-mag=-1.0735586619\ 6815300/0/8.899924e+011 params=0/0/10/0 float=y maxiter=2500 bailout=7 inside=0 logmap=365 colors=000YlbZm__nX`nUanQbnNcnKdnHenGfnFfoEgnGhnHi\ nIjnJknKknLlnMmnNnnOonPpnQpnRjhSdcT_YUUTVONWJIXDCY\ 77Z22_74UB6PG8JK9ELEFLIGLNGLRHMWIM_IMdJMhKNmKNqLNv\ MNzMLtOJnPHhQFbREYSCSUAMV8GW6AX55YQR_jkahlcgmdened\ ofbpgaqi_rjZrkYslWtmVuoTvpSwqQxrPysOytOvuOtuOruOpv\ OmvOkvOiwOgwOdwObxO`xOZxOXxPWvQVuRUsSUrTTpUSoVSnWR\ lXQkYPiZPh_Of`NeaNdZNeXNeVNeTNeRNePNeNNeLNeJNeHNeF\ NeDNeBNe9Ne7Ne6Pd6Qd6Rc5Sc5Ub5Vb5Wa4Xa4Y`4_`3`_3a_\ 3bZ3cZQ2yP6vPAsPEpPImPMjOQgOUdOYaOaZOeWNiTNmQNqNNu\ KNxHLwIJwJHwKFvLDvLBvM9uN7uO5uP4uP6rO7oN8mM9jLBgKC\ eJDbIE`HGYGHVFITEJQDLNCMLBNIAOGAPFCQEERDGRCISBKTBL\ UANU9PV8RW7TW7UZ9R`APbCNdDLfEJhGHjHElJCnKApL8rN6tO\ 4vP2uR3tS3sT3rU3qV4pW4pX4oY4nZ5m_5l`5ka5kb5l`7m_8n\ Z9oYApXBpVCqUDrTEsSFtRGtQHuSJuULuWMuYOv_QvaRvcTveU\ wgWwiYwkZwm`woaqqblsbgucbwcXzcSzdNzdIzdKzcLzbMzaNz\ `Oz_PzZRzYSzXTzWUzVVzUWzT } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================