FOTD -- February 08, 2004 (Rating 6) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: I named today's image "Jungle Lushness". Perhaps I should have named it something like "Too Lush". The image has almost too much richness. No jungle on earth was ever as lush as the scene in the image, not even in the deepest depths of the Amazon rain forest. This over-abundance of detail and color has cost the image one full rating point. After careful consideration, I could give the image a rating no higher than a 6, which is still somewhat above average, but falls short of the 7 that I first considered. The parent fractal was created by combining 1 negative part of Z^(-1.1) with 0.1 negative part of Z^(-11) and adding (1/C). This parent is several orders too large to fit on the default screen, but a single outzoom reveals the most interesting parts. The interesting part of the parent consists of an oversized banana-shaped hole with a Mandelbrot set lying at its southwest extremity. The banana-shaped hole splits the East Valley of the M-set as it joins with the set. Today's scene is located on the shoreline of the hole, near the point where it joins the M-set. The traditional equal-iteration-band method of rendering today's scene produces a very interesting image -- almost good enough to be a FOTD. The evaporated version, which appears as today's FOTD, is improved just enough to be the version I chose. As an 'evaporated' image, today's scene consists entirely of trapped inside points made visible by the 'bof61' inside fill. This fill traces quite faithfully the foundation features of the 'real' image that has been evaporated, but adds bells and whistles that the real image never had. Sometimes a humdrum scene can be improved by evaporating it, sometimes not. The only way to find out is to go ahead and evaporate an image and see what can be done with the ghostly remains. There are also 'half-evaporated' and 'extra-condensed' versions of images created by negative exponents of Z, but I have yet to do much investigating in these areas. The render time of today's image is 13-3/4 minutes. Combined with the rating of a 6, its overall value is 44 -- a value that is not too bad. The image may be seen quicker by downloading it from Paul's web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> Saturday turned into a quite pleasant day here at Fractal Central, when sun and an unexpectedly warm temperature of 43F 6C prevailed most of the afternoon. The cats enjoyed the few spots where the sun is now shining above the holly trees in the early afternoon, and ignored the remaining ice. But this morning things are again frozen solid. It once again feels like winter. I doubt that the duo will have a second good day. My day will probably be average . . . most days are . . . that is unless something unexpectedly good or bad happens. Since nothing like this is likely to occur, the day will probably pass with nothing more notable taking place than the appearance of the next FOTD fractal image. When that happens, we will have found tomorrow's FOTD. Until then, take care, and does the brain create the mind, or does the mind create the brain . . . or is it all just one big fractal? Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ Jungle_Lushness { ; time=0:13:47.67--SF5 on a P200 reset=2003 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=-1.38105363973058900/-5.353386666406572\ 00/1.344518e+009/1/-137.5/0.000903528871152227409 params=-1/-1.1/-0.1/-11/0/1e+100 float=y maxiter=2000 inside=bof61 periodicity=10 colors=000ePadQ`dSZcTXcVVbWUbYSaZQa`O`aN`cL_dJ_eIm\ ulnqmnnnojnogopdop`pqYpqVqrRrrOrsLssHstEttBtmHfAMT\ EKSHIRKGQNEQQCPTAOW8NZ6Na4Md2Lg0LXHNMYPBmQEiTHeVKb\ XMZ_PWaSScUOfXLh_HjaEl_JnZNpYSrXWtW_vUdwThySlyRqyQ\ uyPyyOvyOtyOrwOptOnqOlnOjkNghNeeNcbNa_N_XNYUNWRNUO\ LSPJRPHPPGOQEMQCLQBKQ8KN6KKEEIM8GT3FS6HS8JRALRCMRE\ OQGQQIRPKTPMVPOWRLaSJfTHkVFpWDuXByY9yWAyUBySCyQDyO\ ExMFvKGuIGtGHrEIqCJoAKn8Lm6Mk4Nj2NivEfuHhuJjtLltNn\ tPpsRrsUtrWvrYxr_yqayqcyqeyr`ysXutSouOjvJdwF_xBVxH\ _xNdxThyZmydryjwypyimuVjpGgk1df8_eFVeMQdTLd_GcfBcG\ DyHLyITyI_yJgyJnyOosSokXod`oXeoQioImoBijJeeQb`XZWc\ WRjTQgQPeNOcLNaIM_FLYCKWAJU7IS4HQ2HOKRUa`Zrjcogfle\ hickfamc_p`YrYVuVTwSRyPPyMNyJLyOQyTVyZ_ycdyhiyV_jb\ bhZabflnkomekb_gSUdIQ`HMXHITGEPGDOKDONDNRDNUCMYCM`\ CMdCLgCLkBKnBKrBJuBJyBJyDLsEMkFNcGPWHQOIRGJUKaCTbE\ WcFYdG_eHafIcgJegKgfMeeNc } 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==================================