FOTD 28-01-02 (Sandy Bottom [5])
FOTD -- January 28, 2002 (Rating 5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Sometimes I like to take fractals to the extreme. This may be an extreme magnitude, or an extremely large or small exponent, or some manmade extreme thing, such as an extreme number of layers (not possible with Fractint). Today's fractal, which is a scene in Seahorse Valley of our old friend, the Mandelbrot set, takes us to the extreme maxiter of 1,200,000. At a setting of 68,000, the logmap of today's image is also rather extreme. I have no records of FOTD logmap values, but today's value might set a new record for the FOTD. Despite the extremism however, the image rates only an average 5. And what does all this extremism do? To start, it enables one to sit back and go "wow!" It also can give a very grainy appearance to the image, which is the inspiration for the name "Sandy Bottom", which I gave to today's image. One of the more incredible concepts of today's image is the fact that some of the points have been iterated over 1-million times without going into a loop, and only then have finally escaped. One unfortunate feature of the extreme fractals is the slowness of the calculation. On my worn-out machine, today's image takes 1-1/2 hours to render. But as soon as Scott gets the calculation finished, the GIF image will be available on his web site at: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> The fractal weather Sunday here at Fractal Central was once again great for cats and people alike. The maximum possible sun, light winds, and temperature of 64F 18C made everyone happy. The fractal cats were so happy in fact that their exuberance boiled over into a brief quarrel. But saner heads prevailed, and the combatants separated before any blows were struck. Today promises to be just as perfect if not more perfect than Sunday. Today however, I have a bit of work to get out of the way before I let the dynamic duo into the yard. And the way to get finished is to get started. So until next time, take care, and don't work too hard unless it's on a fractal. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Sandy_Bottom { ; time=1:32:06.74--SF5 on a p200 reset=2002 type=mandel passes=1 center-mag=-0.7469\ 3897237087280/+0.07361680027292958/2.524651e+010/1\ /-80/3.00899839776672118e-005 params=0/0 float=y maxiter=1200000 inside=0 logmap=-68000 colors=000LACNACQBBSBBUBBXCAZCA`CAbFBcICdLDfOEgRFh\ UGjXHk_IlbJneKohLpkMrnNsqOttPmqTfnX_l`UidNfhGdl9ap\ 3_t3`q3`o3`m3`k3ah3af3ad3ab3a`9YXEUTJQPONMTJIYFEbC\ B_BAYAAW9AU8AS8AQ7AO6AM5AK4AI4AG3AE2AC1AA0A80AB2CD\ 3DG4EI5FK6GN7HP8IS9KUALWBMZCN`DOcEPeFQgGRgIPhJOhLN\ hMMhOLhQJhRIhTHiUGiWFiXDiZCi_BiaAib9gcCedEcdGaeI_f\ LYfNWgPUhRShTQiWOiYMj_KkaIkcGlfEmhCmjAnl8nnCllFkjI\ jhLhgOgeRfcUdbXc``bZc`Yf_WiZUlXToWRrVPuUOnSPhQQbPR\ XNSRMSTPUVRWWTYYW__Y``_bbbdcdfefggiihkkjmmkonlmomk\ onioogpphpqiprjqskqtlqumrvnrworxpyyqyyryysyytyyuyy\ vyywyyxyyyyzzyzzyzzyzzyzzyzzyzzyzzyzzyuzvqzsmzpizm\ ezjazgYzdUzaVzbVzcVzcVzdVzdVzeWzfWzfWzgWzgWzhWzhXz\ iXzjXzjXzkXzkXzlXzlUzGSzFRzFQzFPzEOzENzEMzDKzDJzDI\ zCHzCGzCFzBEzBCzBBzAAzA9zA8z97z96z9KzDQzMWzVazcgzl\ ezgdzccz_bzWazS`zO_zKazIczHezGgzFizDjzClzBnzApz8rz\ 7tz6uz5sz6qz6oz7mz7kz7iz8 } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================
As of 09:38 CST, it's posted. Oooh - 35:05.05 .... Go Athlon, go! It was kinda slow when it came to calculating the midget-in-the-middle, but otherwise pretty fast. Scott On Monday 28 January 2002 08:48, Jim Muth wrote:
FOTD -- January 28, 2002 (Rating 5)
<snip-snip>
of the calculation. On my worn-out machine, today's image takes 1-1/2 hours to render. But as soon as Scott gets the calculation finished, the GIF image will be available on his web site at:
Fractaliers - Anyone other than me having trouble downloading ONLY the FOTD dated Jan 26 (Rain Forest) from Scott's page ?? And what happened to the 27th ? Did I snooze and miss it? D. Freed "Scott D. Boyd" wrote:
As of 09:38 CST, it's posted. Oooh - 35:05.05 .... Go Athlon, go!
It was kinda slow when it came to calculating the midget-in-the-middle, but otherwise pretty fast.
Scott
On Monday 28 January 2002 08:48, Jim Muth wrote:
FOTD -- January 28, 2002 (Rating 5)
<snip-snip>
of the calculation. On my worn-out machine, today's image takes 1-1/2 hours to render. But as soon as Scott gets the calculation finished, the GIF image will be available on his web site at:
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I don't have any problem downloading any of then, and they are all there. Doug Stewart bmc1@airmail.net wrote:
Fractaliers -
Anyone other than me having trouble downloading ONLY the FOTD dated Jan 26 (Rain Forest) from Scott's page ??
And what happened to the 27th ? Did I snooze and miss it?
D. Freed
"Scott D. Boyd" wrote:
As of 09:38 CST, it's posted. Oooh - 35:05.05 .... Go Athlon, go!
It was kinda slow when it came to calculating the midget-in-the-middle, but otherwise pretty fast.
Scott
On Monday 28 January 2002 08:48, Jim Muth wrote:
FOTD -- January 28, 2002 (Rating 5)
<snip-snip>
of the calculation. On my worn-out machine, today's image takes 1-1/2 hours to render. But as soon as Scott gets the calculation finished, the GIF image will be available on his web site at:
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I had read D. Freed's 1st email last night, and checked my site from home. Of course, I had no problem here because my Web server is also right here at home. I didn't have time to reply then, as I had to go to work. (I work nights.) When I came home for "lunch" at 1am, I saw Doug's reply, and D.'s second message. I then decided to check my Website from work when I went back. At work, which is 4 miles away in downtown Ft. Worth, TX, the FOTD page for January 2002 looked OK. I clicked on several FOTD links, and I got the text, but not the images! At work, we're behind a firewall, but the images should still get thru. They only filter out incoming email attachments, since they use virus-prone MS Outlook. I would have liked to run a traceroute to my Webserver, from work, to see if it goes thru some router over in Dallas, but all outgoing traceroutes get stopped at the firewall. After I send this email on it's way to the mailing list, I'll cycle my server and my DSL Internet connection. Hopefully, someone can let me know if that made any difference. (Hey - it's worth a try anyway....). D. Freed- if you're still having problems getting the images, I can mirror some of the pages for January on my Webspace on my ISP's server, but that may not make a difference either. My ISP is SW Bell, so their Webservers are in either Ft. Worth or Dallas.... Let me know, Scott On Tuesday 29 January 2002 01:18, D. Freed wrote:
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Doug/Scott - <p>That's weird. As of 1:30 am CST, the page I download from Jim's page lacks: <p>a) any listing for the 27th at all (what's the image called?), and <br>b) any downloadable version of the Rain Forest image, dated the 28th: only an error message. <p>At that point on Scott's page, the spacing goes awry: from two columns to three-abreast, so I suspect there's a format error in one of the servers feeding the Dallas area. Three other Dallas users have logged on within the last hour via 3 separate ISP's, and all get exactly what I do: <i>nada por</i> the 27th at all,<i> y no es una</i> image for the 28th: it returns an Error message. <p>Just wanted to let Scott know, and to ask Scott or you webmeisters what the cause might be. <br>\ <br>D. Freed <p>Doug Stewart wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>I don't have any problem downloading any of then, and they are all <br>there. <br>Doug Stewart <p>bmc1@airmail.net wrote: <br>> <br>> Fractaliers - <br>> <br>> Anyone other than me having trouble downloading ONLY the FOTD dated Jan 26 <br>> (Rain Forest) from Scott's page ?? <br>> <br>> And what happened to the 27th ? Did I snooze and miss it? <br>> <br>> D. Freed <br>>
Hey Scott - Thanks. Doug's OK and apparently it's limited to the Texas area. Also true in Houston, Denver, and Nawlins, as of last night, just based on some friends I called. Nice to know a) it's real, b) it's not my inability to click a mouse correctly (usually the problem), and c) it's getting fixed. Doug was kind enough to send me an uncorrupted version. I appreciate the explanation - the system works so well all the time, we non-contributing users get spoiled when we don't get our "fix", ya know..... ;-). DeBow Freed "Scott D. Boyd" wrote:
I had read D. Freed's 1st email last night, and checked my site from home. Of course, I had no problem here because my Web server is also right here at home. I didn't have time to reply then, as I had to go to work. (I work nights.)
When I came home for "lunch" at 1am, I saw Doug's reply, and D.'s second message. I then decided to check my Website from work when I went back.
At work, which is 4 miles away in downtown Ft. Worth, TX, the FOTD page for January 2002 looked OK. I clicked on several FOTD links, and I got the text, but not the images! At work, we're behind a firewall, but the images should still get thru. They only filter out incoming email attachments, since they use virus-prone MS Outlook. I would have liked to run a traceroute to my Webserver, from work, to see if it goes thru some router over in Dallas, but all outgoing traceroutes get stopped at the firewall.
After I send this email on it's way to the mailing list, I'll cycle my server and my DSL Internet connection. Hopefully, someone can let me know if that made any difference. (Hey - it's worth a try anyway....). D. Freed- if you're still having problems getting the images, I can mirror some of the pages for January on my Webspace on my ISP's server, but that may not make a difference either. My ISP is SW Bell, so their Webservers are in either Ft. Worth or Dallas....
Let me know, Scott
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 01:18, D. Freed wrote:
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Doug/Scott - <p>That's weird. As of 1:30 am CST, the page I download from Jim's page lacks: <p>a) any listing for the 27th at all (what's the image called?), and <br>b) any downloadable version of the Rain Forest image, dated the 28th: only an error message. <p>At that point on Scott's page, the spacing goes awry: from two columns to three-abreast, so I suspect there's a format error in one of the servers feeding the Dallas area. Three other Dallas users have logged on within the last hour via 3 separate ISP's, and all get exactly what I do: <i>nada por</i> the 27th at all,<i> y no es una</i> image for the 28th: it returns an Error message. <p>Just wanted to let Scott know, and to ask Scott or you webmeisters what the cause might be. <br>\ <br>D. Freed <p>Doug Stewart wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>I don't have any problem downloading any of then, and they are all <br>there. <br>Doug Stewart <p>bmc1@airmail.net wrote: <br>> <br>> Fractaliers - <br>> <br>> Anyone other than me having trouble downloading ONLY the FOTD dated Jan 26 <br>> (Rain Forest) from Scott's page ?? <br>> <br>> And what happened to the 27th ? Did I snooze and miss it? <br>> <br>> D. Freed <br>>
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DeBow, I looked thru my server logs, and at 01:45, there were *successful* accesses to the FOTD index page, and the 01-28-02 FOTD html page and image. They were requested by someone running Win98 and IE 5.5. There were no errors in the log between 01:19 to 06:03 am. There were no more requests for FOTD's until 02:13. So that sounds like that might have been you DeBow, and the request for the FOTD for 01-28 was successful. My only other guess is that there is a corrupted proxy server or caching server somewhere. (??) Is that an educated guess? I don't know.... And today's Fractal Pop-Art just got posted to my Website. 8-) Until later, Scott On Tuesday 29 January 2002 09:57, DeBow wrote:
Hey Scott -
Thanks.
Doug's OK and apparently it's limited to the Texas area. Also true in Houston, Denver, and Nawlins, as of last night, just based on some friends I called. Nice to know a) it's real, b) it's not my inability to click a mouse correctly (usually the problem), and c) it's getting fixed. Doug was kind enough to send me an uncorrupted version.
I appreciate the explanation - the system works so well all the time, we non-contributing users get spoiled when we don't get our "fix", ya know..... ;-).
DeBow Freed
I am in London Ontario Canada and use Sympatico. I have had no problems. Any body know what happened to Paul lee and his page???? Doug Stewart
I lived in Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario, Canada and had no ISP at all. But I have problems now in Dallas. The only persaon who might know about PNL & his Page would be Scott or Jim himself, I think. D. Freed Doug Stewart wrote:
I am in London Ontario Canada and use Sympatico. I have had no problems.
Any body know what happened to Paul lee and his page????
Doug Stewart
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Earlier in the month, there were various emails to the list asking about Paul's whereabouts. Nobody seems to know or has heard from him since before Xmas. Until later, Scott Boyd On Tuesday 29 January 2002 19:17, you wrote:
The only persaon who might know about PNL & his Page would be Scott or Jim himself, I think.
D. Freed
Doug Stewart wrote:
Any body know what happened to Paul lee and his page????
Doug Stewart
PS - I still get the corrupted version of Scott's page when going through Jim's FOTD post of yesterday. 9:45am, T, 01/29/02. D. Freed "Scott D. Boyd" wrote:
I had read D. Freed's 1st email last night, and checked my site from home. Of course, I had no problem here because my Web server is also right here at home. I didn't have time to reply then, as I had to go to work. (I work nights.)
When I came home for "lunch" at 1am, I saw Doug's reply, and D.'s second message. I then decided to check my Website from work when I went back.
At work, which is 4 miles away in downtown Ft. Worth, TX, the FOTD page for January 2002 looked OK. I clicked on several FOTD links, and I got the text, but not the images! At work, we're behind a firewall, but the images should still get thru. They only filter out incoming email attachments, since they use virus-prone MS Outlook. I would have liked to run a traceroute to my Webserver, from work, to see if it goes thru some router over in Dallas, but all outgoing traceroutes get stopped at the firewall.
After I send this email on it's way to the mailing list, I'll cycle my server and my DSL Internet connection. Hopefully, someone can let me know if that made any difference. (Hey - it's worth a try anyway....). D. Freed- if you're still having problems getting the images, I can mirror some of the pages for January on my Webspace on my ISP's server, but that may not make a difference either. My ISP is SW Bell, so their Webservers are in either Ft. Worth or Dallas....
Let me know, Scott
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 01:18, D. Freed wrote:
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Doug/Scott - <p>That's weird. As of 1:30 am CST, the page I download from Jim's page lacks: <p>a) any listing for the 27th at all (what's the image called?), and <br>b) any downloadable version of the Rain Forest image, dated the 28th: only an error message. <p>At that point on Scott's page, the spacing goes awry: from two columns to three-abreast, so I suspect there's a format error in one of the servers feeding the Dallas area. Three other Dallas users have logged on within the last hour via 3 separate ISP's, and all get exactly what I do: <i>nada por</i> the 27th at all,<i> y no es una</i> image for the 28th: it returns an Error message. <p>Just wanted to let Scott know, and to ask Scott or you webmeisters what the cause might be. <br>\ <br>D. Freed <p>Doug Stewart wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>I don't have any problem downloading any of then, and they are all <br>there. <br>Doug Stewart <p>bmc1@airmail.net wrote: <br>> <br>> Fractaliers - <br>> <br>> Anyone other than me having trouble downloading ONLY the FOTD dated Jan 26 <br>> (Rain Forest) from Scott's page ?? <br>> <br>> And what happened to the 27th ? Did I snooze and miss it? <br>> <br>> D. Freed <br>>
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