FOTD -- January 14, 2004 (Rating 5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: When I stepped back to view today's image from a distance, I was immediately reminded of an undersea scene, where a squid or octopus has been threatened and has released a cloud of black ink to conceal its escape. Since I saw no actual squid in the image, I named it "The Unseen Squid". (I doubt that a Mandel- brot 'molecule' could pass for a squid.) All in all, it's a very traditional fractal, created with the MandelbrotMix2 formula and rendered with the outside set to 'iter' and the inside set to zero. The image has the appearance of being very close to the escape radius, but this appearance is the actual nature of the fractal at this particular point. Increasing the bailout by entering a large number as the imag(p3) parameter has very little effect on the image. A large bailout radius will not evaporate the image because its formula contains a positive power of Z. When rating the image, I studied it for several minutes, trying to find a reason to rate it at a 6. I found nothing in it worth more than a rating of a very-average 5. Combined with a render time of 11-1/2 minutes, this gives an overall value of 43. This value can be raised considerably by letting Paul render the image and downloading the finished product from his web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> The temperature reached 48F 9C here at Fractal Central Tuesday afternoon, though the clouds, which came and went, kept conditions from being ideal. The fractal cats had as good a day as possible in the yard, considering the less-than-ideal weather. This morning is much colder, and a snowfall is moving in. The cats' moods will suffer, I fear. My day will be adequate once I finish the waiting work. And an adequate day is about the most one can ask for. Tomorrow, I will return with another fractal of a quality yet to be deter- mined. Until then, take care, and have faith in fractals. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ The_Unseen_Squid { ; time=0:11:34.70--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix2 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+1.68407403939392000/+12.56396673625027\ 000/48065.35/1/49.9999999999923546/-6.064168889263\ 75464e-010 params=-0.3/-1.5/1/1.5/0/0/0/0 float=y maxiter=1500 inside=0 logmap=181 periodicity=10 colors=000HZ_F_ZE`YCaXBaWGbXKcXOdXTdXXeY`fYegYigYm\ hZriZvjZzjZngVcdRTaNIZJ7WFAXECXDEYDGYCIYCKZBMZAO_A\ Q_9S_9OXELVIITMFRRCPV9NZqxunurksoiqlfnjdlgajd_hbbe\ debeh_fjXgmUhpRirOjrTiqXiWimUfjScgR`ePYbNV_LSYKPVI\ MSGJQEGNDDKBAI97F74C61A55D49G4CI4HN4LR4PW4T_4Xd4`h\ 4dm4hq4lv4pz7Xo9DdLANX86Z88_8A`8Ba8Dc8Ed8Ge8Hf8Jh8\ Ki8Mj8Nk8Pl8QmARmCSnDSnFToHUoIUpKVpMWpNWmMTkLQiKNf\ JKdIIbHF_GCYF9WE6UD4TF7TGATHCTIFSKISLKSMNSNPRPSRQV\ RRXRS_QUbQVdQWgQXiTZkV_lXamZbn`cobepdfqfgriiskjtml\ uomvqnwspxuqywrznpyeoxYnwPlvGku8jtAisBisCisDisEisF\ isGirHirIirJirKirLirMirNdpO`oPWmPSlQOkRJiRFhSAfT6e\ T2dNNjIfpDzuCvrCrpCnnCjlBfjBbhBZfBVdARbAN`AJZAFXAB\ VNLWZVXjdYvnYtm`rlcpkenjhlijjhmhgoffreftggshhriirk\ iqljqmkpnkpploqmnrnntnmuomvplwplpkejgZdcTZ_MTWGVXH\ XYHYZH__Ia`IcaJebJfcJhdKjeKlfLngLybbwc_vdXteVseSqf\ QpgNTUhRVgPVeOWdMXcKYbJZa } frm:MandelbrotMix2 {; 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 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE==================================