FOTD -- July 22, 2002 (Rating 7) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: For today's glorious fractal we return to perhaps the richest area in all of fractaldom -- Seahorse Valley of the Mandelbrot set. Yes, I realize that this area has been explored almost ad infinitum, but it holds so many promising places that I just can't let it alone. Today's image is one of a midget located deep in a seahorse-tail spiral on the west side of the valley. The nature of the location is made abundantly clear by the tightly-wound spirals around the midget. I have written the mathtolerance entry into the parameter file because the magnitude of the image is so great that the program has a tendency to flip into arbitrary math mode when calculating the image, with a big slow-down but no image improvement. Curiously, the outside=tdis setting is the cause of the 1-1/2 hour render time. When calculated with outside=iter, the image renders in 4 minutes. I have no idea why the <tdis> option should take over 20 times as long to render as the normal <iter> method. I named the image "Seahorse Minibrot" as more of a description than a title. Since I kind of like the amber coloring, I rated the image at an above average 7. The 90-minute render time of the parameter file is quite slow. Some may enjoy watching the image majestically paint itself onto the screen; most will decide to download the completed GIF image from Paul's site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> or from Scott's site at: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> The fractal weather Sunday here at Fractal Central was quite warm and muggy, which is typical for this time of year. The temperature of 90F 32C kept the fractal cats typically lazy until supper time, when they suddenly remembered they were hungry and began crying to be fed. One certain thing however is that the rest of this Monday will not be lazy, at least for me, burdened as I am with a pile of work to finish. So as I begin the task, take care, and know truth. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Seahorse_Minibrot { ; time=1:30:55.21--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=mandel passes=1 mathtolerance=/1 center-mag=-0.75285852351178220/+0.043143142026493\ 12/1.333782e+013/1.0005 params=0/0 float=y inside=0 maxiter=36000 bailout=6 periodicity=10 outside=tdis colors=000m5zu8zr7zp5zm5zl4zj4zg2we2uc1ta1r`0pY0mW\ 0lT0jR0iQ0gN0dM0cJ0aI0`G0ZD0WC0VA0T80R50N70Q80RA0T\ A0VC2WD5YDA`FCaGFcIJdJMeLPgLRiJTgITgGTeGTeFTdDTdDT\ cCTcAVaAVaAV`8V`7VZ7VZ5VY4VY2WW2WW1WV0WV0WT0WT0WR0\ WR0YT2ZT5ZT8`TAaTDaVGcVJcVMdVPeVReWVgWYiW`iWcjWcoY\ dlWejWgiWigWjeVldVmcVmaVo`VpZTrYTtVTuTTwRRxQRxPRzN\ RzMRzLQzJQzIQzGQzFQzCLrAGjACc87W72P50700C10I40N70T\ A0ZD0cG0iJ0oN0uQ0zT0zW0xZ0p`0ja0cc1Wd2Qe5Jh7Ck87mA\ 0pA0tA0sC0sD0tD0qF0oG1nG2kI4hJ5gJ7eL8cMAcMAaNA`PC`\ PDZQFYRGYRIWTJVVLVVMTWNRYPRYQQZRP`TNZRP`RPaRQcRQdQ\ ReQReQTgQTiPVjPVlPWlPWmPYoNYpNZrNZrN`tM`uMawMaxMcx\ MczLdzLdzLezLezJgzJgzJizJizJizLgzMezMezNdxPduPcrQc\ oRalRaiT`eV`cVZ`WZYYYVYYRZWP`WM`VJaVGcTDcTAdR8eR5e\ Q2gQ0iP0iP0jN0iM0jN0lP0lQ0mQ0oR0oT2pT5pV8rWAtWDtYG\ uZJuZMw`PxaRxcVzcYzd`zeczeezgizilziozjrzluzpxzuzzl\ xzduzYtzQpzJozCla5zd5zi5z } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================