FOTD -- January 07, 2003 (Rating 9) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: The work is quite heavy this morning. With no time for a lengthy discussion, I will let the image speak for itself. This is no problem, for it speaks very well. I really like today's image. The rating of 9 that it was given is no exaggeration. The image earns every bit of its excep- tional rating. I named the picture "Ghostly Happenings", not because there is something spooky about it, but because the image is another of my 'evaporated' images, consisting of all-inside, with the ghost of the vanished material made visible by <bof60> fill. The parent fractal was created by combining negative portions of Z^(-0.75) and Z^(-7.5) before adding (1/C). The fact that one exponent has ten times the value of the other is of no impor- tance. The parent is an indescribable thing that is almost impossible to describe, but it is typical of this class of double-negative fractals. Today's scene is located in a valley in an unlikely area of the northern part of the parent. I call the area unlikely because at first glance it appears to be non-critical and therefore to hold no midgets. But, as today's image shows, the world of fractals, like the real world, sometimes holds the unexpected. The render time of 12 minutes is quite reasonable for such a quality image. And as always, the completed GIF file is available on Paul's FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> and on Scott's site at: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> The fractal weather here at Fractal Central on Monday was partly cloudy with a temperature of 34F 1C and occasional flurries of snow. The dynamic cats, who dislike snow, spent the day sleeping by the warmest radiators they could find. I don't know what has come over the once truly dynamic pair. The older they get, the more they sleep. It seems like 10 years since they last chased each other up and down the stairs. As for myself, I have a bit of work to chase down and finish before starting my search for a fractal that equals or exceeds today's. I probably will fail to find one -- such images are not easy to find -- but check tomorrow to see how close I come. Until then, take care, and good things sometimes come to those who wait, but if they wait too long, they sometimes miss the fractal boat. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ Ghostly_Happenings { ; time=0:12:36.98--SF5 on a p200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=-1.49916201924092700/+2.289316930073352\ 00/1.336895e+007/1/85/-5.98323907294306956e-008 params=-2/-0.75/-9/-7.5/0/1e+100 float=y maxiter=1200 inside=bof61 periodicity=10 colors=0006Qa3Qc5Oe7Mg8LhAJjBIkDGmEFnGDpHCqJAsK9tM\ 7vN6wO9uPCsQFqQIoRLmSOkTRiTUhUXfV_dWbbWe`XhZYkXZnV\ ZpUluMyzFvuJspNpkRmfVjaZgXacWd_WfXVhTVjPVmMUoIUqFU\ sESnEQjEOfDMbDKYDIUCGQCEMCDIUEjPFmLFpGGrCGu7Hx3Hz6\ Jx8LvANtCPsFRqHToJVnLWlOYjQ_iSagUceXedZgb`i`bj__ga\ YecWbdU`fRYhPWiNUkLRmJPnGMpEKrCHsAFu8Dv7Iq6Mm5Qi4U\ e4Za3bY2fU1jQ1nM3kK4hJ6eH7cG9`EAYDCVBDTAFQ8GN7HL6N\ J7SI7YH7bG7gE7mD7rC7wB7dBENBL5BS5BR5CP5CO4DM4DL4EJ\ 4EI3EH3FF3FE3GC2GB2H92H82H73KB4NF5QJ6TN7WQ8ZU8aY9d\ aAgdBjhCmlDppDrsCsrCsqBspBsoAtnAtm9tl9tl9uk8uj8ui7\ uh7vg6vf6ve6ve5ub5t_5tYwsVwsSwrQwrNwqLwpIwpFmzDzzc\ zn7zn5wm2zm0mf6c_CUTHXNNdGSk9Yr3bj2`b2ZV2XN2VG2UK4\ XO6ZS7`W9b_BdcCfgEhjFjhDcgBXe9Rd8Kb6Ea47`31c8FeDTS\ 9ME6G13A77CCAEHDFNGHSJJXMKYNLZOM_PNzQzzRzzSzzTzzUz\ zVzdWUeXVfYWgZXh_Yh_ZeYVcXS`WPZUMWTJUSFRQCPP9MO6KN\ 3JL9JKFJJLJIRIHXIGbIFh9Q_ } 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==================================