FOTD -- January 05, 2002 (Rating 5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Having replaced the dead fan in the Fractal computer with a workable fan from an unused machine, I once again have Fractal Central up and running. As a test of the new unit, I set the faithful 200mhz machine, which I rescued from oblivion, to the task of finding another fractal, a task which it has always accomplished admirably. After I allowed 2 hours for any potential problems to show up, the machine performed perfectly with its new fan, and coughed up today's image. The image was designed to be no more than a test, but when I saw the result, I decided that with its rating of 5, the image was good enough to be christened FOTD for January 5. The image is a scene in the Mandeloid that results when 0.3 parts of Z^(-8) are subtracted from Z^(-4) before adding 1/C. The midget in the image is located in the outskirts of a larger midget, which in turn is located some distance inland of the main bay of the grossly oversized parent. The outzoom to the parent is quite an interesting trip. Change the passes to 1 and the logmap to 0 and have a go at it. With a render time of 3 minutes, running the parameter file is almost as convenient as downloading the completed image from: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> or from: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> But give Paul and Scott a chance to get their sites updated before going for the image. The Fractal Central weather Friday was sunny but breezy and cold. The high temperature of 38F 3C was a bit too chilly for the cats, who spent the day watching me struggle with the fractal computer, while intermittently asking for food. It's now almost midnight, time to shut down the fractal shoppe, call it a night, and settle down to watch one of those gloriously bad old sci-fi movies from the 1950's. Maybe I'll choose "Them", the movie about the giant ants. That one is actually a bit above average, and it's much fun to doze off while watching it. Until tomorrow at around this same time, take care, and keep the sunny side up. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ Fractal_Burst { ; time=0:03:18.28--SF5 on a p200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+23.7128849777565/+26.99522223844535/1.\ 200758e+008/1/-159.999981173185887/-1.539999451616\ 31402e-005 params=1/-4/-0.3/-8/0/525 float=y maxiter=1200 inside=0 logmap=63 periodicity=0 colors=0002ez0nz0mz2sz7szIzzFkqEUZraugVjYO_NIQ0zBB\ yzDksD_fDOUiMHYIHNFHEH0DF0DE4DDBzP0o23X7AZ30R73JAA\ YguQYfJNUAzkBkaDURswIegHRSH3kN8UJwzSc0zzzHmsHaeHOR\ HbboQQYz_0aO47vuAZ_gFDSEFz74bABawESgFKSH6KzzbikUZU\ KQ20IzzVorRbcNQQJH0kF0cE2XD7O4JagsyAqjN0X0w04_6Sjj\ NZ_INQvr0fc3RQAaMQOHKmqjVXVozYboRQXM0zU0nO6VKszNem\ K08I0cB0z4JzDauJsnQMAkJ3eH0_cMRziJbnYQZ_DJaDHUsOfD\ ENzz7omAbaDQOFXeus6oe8cRBS7zo8ofAbYBQOz0oo3fb6YQAO\ 3Ka0gk4SXz0XXyUHcI0zzzz0jk3UUAYDzSDqNDeIDS2zy4sm7e\ bARRVAfOBYIDOAiyB_mBSbDKRjq4af8UXBKMEwzI_fHzbRqXOc\ QMQJJj2z0kK3UIzzsfb_z0M0zF3bHOHzKFoIEcFDS0XQ3MK6fz\ 8ZsAZfBcUmhU_mOOrKfwzZzsRzfJzU_z0zz0zz8zz_zzfzzYzz\ OzzozzYzzAzzDzzFzzzzznzzbzzRzz0zz0zz0zz8zz3zzAzzDz\ zFzzgzz_zzUzzNzzIzzHzzHzzSzz0zz6zzBzz0zzVzzRzzNzzJ\ zzzzz7zzBzzEzz2zzzzzjzzVzzuzzfzzUzz0zzezzXzzOzzvzz\ gzzUzz0zz2zz7zzDzz_zzUzzN } 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==================================