FOTD -- June 15, 2003 (Rating 4) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: A day of cleaning up after the big storm, which dropped 6-1/2 inches or 16-1/2 centimeters of rain on Fractal Central in under one hour, left but little time for fractal diversion. But I did find a few spare moments, and in those moments, today's FOTD is what I found. It rates only a 4, and the render time is a dragging 20 minutes, so it is not the best value of all time. But it is worth at least a quick download. I named the image "Fractal Peaches" for reasons I have already forgotten. The formula takes Z^3 and adds 1/100 part of Z^(-99) before adding the final (1/C). The resulting parent fractal is a grossly enlarged Mandeloid rotated 180 degrees and surrounded by extended fields of chaos. Today's scene in located in the East (or in this case, the West) Valley of the parent. The less-than-superb fractal for today can be seen by running the attached parameter file and waiting 20 minutes or by down- loading the finished image from: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> or from: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> Saturday was a much improved day here at Fractal Central, for which the dynamic fractal cats were thankful. The temperature reached 88F 31C. The only rain was a light shower late in the afternoon, but by then the duo had satisfied their wanderlust. The rain is forecast to be light again today, so the cats should once again be happy. I'll be happy when I finish the clean-up from Friday. Until next FOTD, take care, and see you in 24 hours. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ Fractal_Peaches { ; time=0:20:35.16--SF5 on a p200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=-162.1990694820002/-0.06542605764978/10\ 64827/1/47.5/-2.81791724725255488e-007 params=1/3/\ 0.01/-99/0/0 float=y maxiter=2700 inside=0 logmap=348 symmetry=none periodicity=10 colors=000K0BN2CP3DR4DT5EV7FX8FZ9GaAHcBHeDIgEJiFJk\ GKmHKiLHfPFbTC_XAW`7Tc5R_7PX9OUAMRCKNEJKFHHHFEJEBK\ DCMDDODEQDERDFTDGVDHWDHYDI_DJ`DKbDKdDLeDMgDNiDNjDM\ kDLlDKlDJmDImDHnDHnDGoDFoDEpDDpDCqDCqCMrBWsAet9ou8\ yuEvqKtmPqiVoe_laejYjhVifWidXicYiaZi__iZ`iXahVbhUc\ hSdhQehPfhNghLhhKhiJgjIgkHfkGflFfmEenDenDdoCdpBdqA\ cq9cr8bs7bs7b9U9POOdJasEotHmtKluMkuPjvSivUhwXgw_fw\ aes_dpZdmXdjWdfVccTc`ScYRcfOkoLrkOggQYcSO_UE`XFaZF\ baGccGdeGdhHejHflHgoIhqIhsIcrJ_qJWpJSoJNnKJmKFlKBk\ KIjLPiMWhNbgOifPofPncNmaMlZKkXJjUIiSGhPFgNEfPHfRKf\ TNfVPfWSfYVf_Xfa_fbbfddffgfhjfildimcinbin`io_ipZip\ XiqWirVirTisSitRitPgqOeoNcmMaj001L_hKYfJWdIYaH__Ga\ YFKVEcTCcRBcPAcM9cK8cI7cF6dD5eB4f93g62h41i2VjjTkgS\ leQmcPnaNo_MpYLqWJsTIuRGwPFxNEzLCzJBzH9zE8zC7zA5z8\ 4z62z41z2XzKVzJUzITzISzHRzGQzGPzFOzFNzEMzDLzDKzCJz\ BIzBHzAGzAFz9Ez8Dz8Cz7Bz6 } frm:MandelbrotMix4 {; 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, 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==================================