FOTD -- October 12, 2002 (Rating 5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's fractal takes around 0.7 part of Z^(-0.05) and adds 1/10th as much Z^(-11) to it before adding 1/C. The resulting fractal is a grossly bloated empty circle on the verge of turning inside-out, with a bit of chaos on its western shore. Today's image focuses on this chaos, which is filled with curiously twisted quadratic midgets. I may investigate these midgets further in the days to come. Today however, I have concentrated on the entire area of chaos. At first glance, today's scene appears to have L-R symmetry. But the symmetry is an illusion. A second glance will reveal small differences in the left and right halves of the picture. Today's image is rotated 90 degrees and stretched in its vertical direction. This stretching of the chaos distorts it into something that vaguely resembles a rack of moose antlers. When searching for fractal names, if I see even the slightest resemblance to something, that is enough to supply a name. In today's case, it justified the name "Antlers in Sight". The background of the image consists of bof60 inside fill; the ground at the bottom is normal outside material. The whole thing is of average FOTD quality, and in fact, much like the images I produced so many of in the early FOTD's. I rated it at an average 5. The 2-1/2 minute render time is reasonable for such an average image, and that time can be reduced by 40 percent by changing the passes from 1 to g. But even 1-1/2 minutes is a bit longer than would be required to download the completed image from: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> or from: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> The temperature Friday here at F.C. reached 68F 20C, but the weather was terrible. It poured rain all day, accumulating over 4 inches (or 10cm) by evening. The cats of the fractal variety sat all day on their shelves by the windows, watching the rain and sulking because they could not go out. A treat of tuna in the evening cheered them somewhat, but could not come close to making up for the day of forced confinement. It's still cloudy this morning, though no rain is falling. As soon as the grass dries, the dynamic duo will be unleashed into the yard. (Dynamic fractal cats do not like their paws wet.) As for me, I'm going to take it as slow as possible and enjoy the temporary lull in the work load as much as possible. But unless the world ends, I'll return tomorrow with a new and hopefully better fractal. Until then, take care, and relax. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ Antlers_In_Sight { ; time=0:02:31.10--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip center-mag=2.52271/0/0.2218209/0.6159/90/3.8857805\ 8618804789e-016 params=5/-0.05/0.5/-11/-0.8623/525 float=y maxiter=1200 inside=bof60 logmap=yes symmetry=none periodicity=10 passes=1 colors=000DpkS0KGifUNSIcaJQ_KXYLUVNRTOORPLOQHMREKS\ BHT8FU5DT8HTBLTEPTGSTJWTM_TPcTRfTUjTXnT_rTauV_nWZh\ XYaZWW_VP`UJaTD`SC`RC`QB`PB_PA_OA_N9_M9_M9dQAiTAnX\ Bs_BwbBtdIreOpfUnh_liejjkhkqlmoqonvqlzrkvojrljoiik\ gihdhdah`ZgYXgSWfRUfNUeKUeKUdKUcKUbKUaKU`KU_KU`LUa\ LUcMTeMSgMQiNNjNIkNElNBmODiPEfPFbQG_RHWRITUKSWLSYM\ S_NSaOScPSeQSgRSiTSkUSmVSoWSqXSsYSuZSw_SqSXlL`fEea\ 7iX0m_1ia2fc3ce4`g5Yi6Vk7Sm8Oo9LqAIsBFuCCwD9yD6uHC\ qLInPNjTTfXYc`c_dhWhnTlsRjjQhaPfUNdLMbCL`4RT9XMDbF\ Ig8MjDPmHRpMTsQWvVYxZ_s_Zn_Yj_Xe_Wa_VX_UT_TO_SK_RF\ _QB_PZH`bDSeAJh7Af9CdAEbCF`DH_FIYGKWILUJNSLORMQPOR\ NPTLRUJSWITXLRYOPZRO_UM_XK`_JabHbdFbgEcjCdmAep9es7\ fv5gx4gh72e98cBEaCK_EQYFVWETUERSDPQDNPDLNCJLCHJBGH\ BEGBCEAACA8A96894793BFBELIHQPKWXN`cQfjTkqUfrUbrUZr\ VUrVQrVMrVIrWDrW9rW5rW1rY4sZ7s_As`DtaFtbItcLudOueR\ u`cjYdjVfjShjPjkMkkJmkGok } 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==================================