FOTD -- December 08, 2002 (Rating 4) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: I named today's image "Arcing". My excuse is that the bluish streaks surrounding the central area of activity could be interpreted as a series of electric arcs. The actual reason is that I rather enjoy using the word, which regardless of how it is spelled, never seems to be spelled correctly. The presumed correct spelling is 'arcing', but spelled this way, the word looks as if it should be pronounced 'arse-ing', which more sensitive fractalists could take to mean something un-nice. The spelling 'arking' looks as though it would be pronounced correctly, but seems unrecognizable when seen on paper. The participial form of the word 'picnic' is 'picnicking', and this word gives no trouble. Why then can not the participial form of the word 'arc' be spelled 'arcking'? . . . I guess it looks like a mis-spelling of 'racking'. This little side trip into the world of correct spelling is in no way meant to divert attention from today's image, which is rated well above yesterday's lowly 2, but still comes in at a slightly-below-average 4. The slit-like hole at the center is actually a very odd slice of a midget that appears in the east valley area of a larger midget that lies on a filament extending from the northwest shore of the main bud of the M-set. At this angle, the 2,4,8... series of elements has basically disintegrated into a disorganized chaos, though the overall pattern is still rather well defined. A glance at the < tab > screen will show that the image has been greatly stretched and skewed to undo the inherent stretching and skewing of the scene. Such stretching and skewing is an important part of examining the odd slices of the Julibrot, where features in their natural form are often stretched and twisted beyond recognition. This natural stretching is an inevitable part of the odd slices. It exists for mathematical reasons, one of which is that objects appear far larger in the Julia aspect than in the Mandelbrot aspect, and the odd slices include parts of both aspects. I will have more to say about this stretching in a future FOTD. Right now, it's time to reveal that, with a render time of 4 minutes, the image is barely worth the effort of rendering it from the parameter file. Those who choose not to render may find the pre-rendered image ready for download on Paul's site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> and on Scott's site at: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> The fractal weather Saturday was sunny but chilly, with a temperature barely above freezing. The snow still on the ground kept the dynamic ones safely indoors by their radiators. But I could not avoid a trip outdoors to do some things that needed to be done. This morning is sunny and chilly again. I expect a similar day. Until the next FOTD appears in 24 hours, take care, and see you then. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ Arcing { ; time=0:04:06.95--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=multirot-XZ-YW-new passes=1 center-mag=-0.00000000004526324/-0.000000000006343\ 38/1.471077e+011/0.0132/172.255691302663337/-56.45\ 35740250172111 params=-26.03289895321512/95.611438\ 3373516/2/0/-1.256850515434251/0.3795596138199557/\ -1.256850515434251/0.3795596138199557 float=y maxiter=2500 inside=0 periodicity=10 colors=000cdOXZPPTRHNSAHTELYHObLRfOUkSXoV_tYbxWapU\ `iT_aR_VQZNOYGNY9LZDJ_GH`JFaNEbQCcTAdX8e_7eb8c`8b_\ 9`Y9_XAYVAXUBVSBUREVQGWQJXPLYPNYPQZOS_OV`NXaNZaN_d\ K`fI`iFakDanAbp8bs5cu3cw1_m3Wc5SU7OK8PWPPgePsvMrnK\ rgIq`GqUDqMBpF9p87p18l39i5Ae6Bb8C_ADWBETDEPFFMGGJI\ HFKICLJ8NK5PK2QN6OQAMSELVHJXLH_PGbTEdWCg_Bic9lg7nj\ 6oa9pTBqKErCGoDHmEHjFHhGHfGHcHHaIH_JIXKIVKITLIQMIO\ NIMNIOSPQWVS`aUegWjn`tyZqvYntXlrVipUfmTdkRaiQZgPXd\ NUbMR`UVHPSQLPZGNgCKp8Iy7Hv7Ht7Gr7Gp7Fn7Fk7Ei7Eg6E\ e6Dc6D`6CZ6CX6BV6BT17Q49R6BR8DSAFSCHTEJTGLUINULPVN\ RVPTWRVWTXXVZXX`Y_`_ZaYZaWYaUYaTXbRXbPWbOWbMWcKVcJ\ VcHUcFUdETdCTdATd9R`9QY9PV9OS9NP9MM9LI9KF9JC9I99H6\ 9G39J6CL8FOAIQCLTEOVGRYJU_LXbN_dPbgReiThmewj_lkVjk\ PilKglEfm9dp1bm4ck7chAdfDdcGdaJeZMe_HfYLeXPeWTeVWe\ U_dTcdSgdRjdQhcQgbPfbPdaPc`Ob`O`_N__NZZNXYMWYMVXFK\ `JPZMUXQYVTbTXgR_kPcpNftL } frm:multirot-XZ-YW-new {; Jim Muth ; 0,0=para, 90,0=obl, 0,90=elip, 90,90=rect e=exp(flip(real(p1*.01745329251994))), f=exp(flip(imag(p1*.01745329251994))), z=f*real(pixel)+p3, c=e*imag(pixel)+p4: z=z^(p2)+c, |z| <= 36 } END 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE==================================