FOTD -- October 19, 2007 (Rating 7.5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Greetings once again from Fractal Central, located in glorious central Pennsylvania. Today's image takes us to the parent fractal that is created when 5 negative parts of Z^(-1.5) are combined with 1 negative part of Z^(-5) and (1/C) is added. For extra interest the escape radius is reduced to 40 and the scene is rendered with the outside set to 'tdis'. This parent fractal is a string of 3 north-south aligned, nearly circular bays. Today's scene is located not too deep in one of the western valleys between the bays. I named the image "X Is Where It's At" because of the prominent 'X'-shaped figure around the central minibrot. This 'X' is almost entirely a result of the coloring, so I decided to reward myself by adding an extra 1/2 point to the 7 that I rated the image. In contrast to the images of the past few days, which had a calculation time of hours, today's image finishes in a mere 50 seconds. And it is even more convenient to go to the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> and view the already-finished image posted there. Another summer-like day here at Fractal Central was spoiled on Thursday by too many clouds. But despite the clouds, the temper- ature reached 77F 25C, bringing out the shirt sleeves and shorts in the area. Not needing clothes, the fractal cats spent the day stretched in the window, waiting for the sun. Unfortunately they got only a few minutes of sunshine for their effort, and extra tuna was needed to ease their disappointment. My day was busy but under control. The next FOTD will appear in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and with Halloween coming, isn't it a good thing that all those crazy supernatural things that make the day so much fun are not real . . . . . . or . . . I wonder . . . no, it couldn't be? Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= X_Is_Where_It's_At { ; time=0:00:49.97-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=recip center-mag=-0.047579342015/-1.341910586642/3793/1/\ -164/-8e-012 params=-5/-1.5/-1/-5/0/-60/0/0 float=y maxiter=1600 inside=0 outside=tdis periodicity=10 colors=000uuM0SZ0QZ2M_AI`IFaQBbY8cFEX0JR1OK5SD9W7C\ Z9E`AGbBJdCLfDNhFQjGSlHUnIWpJiMLdLI`LGXKETKCPJALJ8\ HI6DI49H25H01H07K0DN2JQ4PT6VW8_YAY_JWaRUh_TwzLmzDc\ zQPWaFHm92gGBaNJXURXPMXKHXFCZA8Z5A`6Fc7Kf9PhBUiDZj\ CajCajFbjIbjLbjObiQbgRbeQccPc`NdXLdTJdRHcNEcLCbzz`\ tpZofUoZPpTKoTInWHp_FrbEseDkgCciCXkBPmBHoB9qA2sA1q\ A5oFFmJOkNTiQXgS`eUecXiaZmZ`qYbbWZPXVAYR0YN0ZS0_V1\ `Z3`a4ae6bh7blGWdPPYXJReCKm6Dl5Kl4Ql3Xk2bk1ik0o4lU\ 6kY8ka9jeBjiDimEiqFhjFgdFfZFeTFdMFcGFbAFa4EX7DTACP\ DBKGAGJ9CLBEMDGMEHMGJNILNJMNGJMEHLCFK9CJ7AI58H36H0\ 7H07H0CJ0GK0KL0ON0SO0XP0aQ0fS0kT0pU0tV0oT1kR6gPAcN\ FZLJWJOTISQGYMEfJCkHArS8zU7qPChBHc0M`0R_0WU0_P0WK0\ SF1O54K88GBBCEF8HI4KM0NP0QS0SR0UQ2VQ6XPAZPE_OIaOMc\ NQdNUfMYgMZfLXfLSfLNfLIeKDeK8eK3eK0eK0eYPekr`hpXfn\ TdlOajK_hGYgEXeCXdAWc9Wb7V`5V_4UZ2UY0TX0TV0SU0ST0R\ S0RR6EEJ11RbUL`VFYWAWX4UY } frm:MandAutoCritInZ {; 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)+(p4)), k=real(p3)+1, l=imag(p3)+100, c=fn1(pixel): z=k*((a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f)))+c, |z| < l } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================