JoTz, Thanks for the great videos! http://www.fractal-animation.net/vid/valentynez.zip http://www.fractal-animation.net/vid/2013.zip Single-stepping thru the rapidly changing areas of the videos let me see all of the great fractals that went by too fast at the default frame rate. In the Windows Media Player V11 you can do this: View > Enhancements > Play Speed Settings Below the Play Speed Settings horizontal slider are two unidentified buttons. If you pause the video, then these two buttons advance and reverse the video one frame at a time, so you can see the many wonderful fractals that are whizzing by -- now frozen for your visual pleasure. The reverse function is buggy -- I've had to kill the Windows Media Player manually using the Task Manager when it appeared to hang when I asked for several reverse steps of a video in a row. (There may have been a patch released that I haven't applied yet.) To go back and see something in the video that has just passed by, I've learned to drag the blue button of the video "progress bar" to the left a bit, and then use the single step Advance button, thus avoiding using the Reverse button... The blue part of the horizontal Speed slider shows the range of speeds where sound is able to be provided. Note that the range of playback speeds between "0" and "0.5" is only the distance between those two labels on the Speed slider... You have a keen nose for parameter sensitivity! - Hal Lane ######################## # hallane@earthlink.net ######################## ==================================================

Author: JackOfTradeZ Date: 2013-01-02 23:47 -500 To: fractint Subject: [Fractint] AOTD 1/2/13

This really is a "surprise" fractal; it finished way ahead of what I had calculated. The same interesting effect is observed with all Julia type fractals (simple to complex) when animating in one dimension (linear, along a line in the plane, ie., by varying one parameter). There are alternating periods of "slow" activity and motion with fast "explosive" displays.

One might think you could isolate the "fast" segments, then "expand" them by re-rendering the frames with a smaller increment, but if you do that, the same alternating slow-fast pattern re-emerges. I have noticed this over 10 years of Julia animations. Kinda like a "Cantor Set Line" - as you magnify it the same pattern keeps occuring.

In this case it is cool - a small fractal image slowly morphs and expands with increasing speed and intensity, and the cycle repeats several times over the viddie.

In the original FOTD for 1/1/13 the REAL parameter (P3) is set to -1.64788477144322. For the animation it is varied from -1.647853 to -1.647913 in steps of -0.00000001 to give 6000 frames.

It is 6 minutes 11 seconds long, 61 MEG download. Complete with 12th century soundtrack.

http://www.fractal-animation.net/vid/2013.zip

Enjoy! JoTz

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Author: JackOfTradeZ Date: 2013-01-08 22:16 -500 To: fractint Subject: [Fractint] AOTD Jan 8 2013 .

Fractal Animation visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's animation is derived from the FOTD for Jan 4 2013, "Into The Boondocks", where the REAL portion of the P5 parameter is varied from -4.01000055420134 to -4.00999901475165 in steps of 0.0000000005 for 3K+ frames.

Perhaps the last one may have been a bit boring, but not this one. No slow parts, all psychedelic, all cruisin' all the way!

The name -- "Valentynez" -- will be evident while viewing. My rating of 9 for this one makes it one of the best of the "kaleidoscope" animations. The calculation time of one day leaves every excuse for those who lack the time to do the calculation, especially when the finished viddie is available on my web site:

http://www.fractal-animation.net/vid/valentynez.zip

34 MEG download for 3 min 26 sec viewing pleasure.

Clear skies with temperatures in the 40's made today here at Fractal Animation Central totally typical for the start of January (in Colorado).

The fractal coyotes have been silent recently, but horses and cattle can be heard in the distance at nite or in the wee hours of morning, adding to the pleasant environment of the American West, although Colorado is becoming more infested with liberals every day; I fear it will soon be New Jersey with a better climate and a mountain view before too long.

The next animation (zoom "Into the Aether") will be posted when it is finished, in a week or two. Until then, take care, and I never cease to be amazed at the emotionally-based but ineffective solutions to major problems that INsincere people keep inventing. For example, to make the streets safer, why would any sensible person be against every free citizen carrying the firearm of their choice, open or concealed? A wise philosopher once noted that "an armed society is a free and polite society", and how right he was!

Cheers JoTz