FOTD -- March 24, 2005 (Rating 6) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: When I opened my e-mail box this morning, I found a letter from some person in Nigeria, who claimed to be interested in buying 150 of my product from my store. The letter went on to ask if I could ship immediately and if I would accept a visa credit card as payment, and ended by requesting that I send a full description of 'my product'. My suspicions were raised when I suddenly realized that I have no store, and were confirmed when I realized that the person who sent the e-mail did not even know what my product is. I guess he wanted some of my FOTD fractals. Scamming must be the number one industry of Nigeria. Today's image shows an Elliptic midget lying on the negative stem of the Mandelbrot set, a short distance east of the largest midget. Its overall shape is very typical of Elliptic midgets in general. I named the image "Re-entry" when it reminded me of a space object disintegrating as it reenters earth's atmosphere. When I say that today's scene lies on the negative stem of the M-set, it must be remembered that in the Julibrot the negative stem is not the decorated straight line that appears in the M-set. It is a three-dimensional space with only a slight extension in the fourth dimension, which curves and twists in unimaginable ways through the broader four-dimensional space. I am not sure that today's image fully earns its rating of a 6, but I gave it that rating in an effort to recover from yesterday's abysmal performance. Today's FOTD is not only better than yesterday's, it is much faster, rendering in a matter of seconds. This is probably faster than the finished image can be downloaded from the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> Heavy rain fell all day Wednesday here at Fractal Central, causing localized flooding and unhappy fractal cats. The un-official fractal temperature hovered around 41F 9C all day, while the un-official rain can filled with 2.5 inches, or 64mm of rainwater during the day. With sulky attitudes, the cats watched the day's weather from their shelf by the window. Ample tuna in the evening helped ease their disappointment however. Today is starting dry but cloudy and very chilly, with showers in the forecast. The cats might need more comfort before the day ends. My comfort will come when I find the perfect fractal. It might happen today or it might not happen for many googols of years. The challenge will be to know the perfect fractal when I find it. Tomorrow's fractal will not be perfect, but it will arrive for near certain in only 24 hours. Until then, take care, and could Fractint be turning into a cult program? Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Re-entry { ; time=0:00:19.94--SF5 on a P200 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=multirot-XY-ZW-new function=ident/flip center-mag=-1.61298847799078300/-0.499140172596339\ 50/1713910/0.009486/32.1906682894654494/-81.566890\ 9945544698 params=90/0/2/0/5e-008/0/0/0 float=y maxiter=1000 inside=0 logmap=42 periodicity=10 colors=000RPWTSZVVbXYfZ_i`bmbdqbfr`foZekWdgUccRb_P\ aWN`RK_NIZJFYFDXBBW7EV6HU6KT6MS5PR5SQ5UQ4XQ4_P4aP3\ dO3gO3iN2lN2oM2qM2sX6ue9woDxxGpoFhgE`_DTSCMKBNLANL\ AOMAOMAOMAPN9PN9PN9QO9QO9RP8RP8RP8SQ8SQ8SQ82hN3fL3\ eK3cJ3bI3aH4_G4ZF4XE4WD4VC7WGAWJDWMGXPJXSMXWPYZSYa\ VYdXYgRdaLkWGqRHmPHjNIgMIcKJ`JJYHKUGKREKODJNFJMGIL\ IIKJHJKHIMGHNGGPFFQFEREDTECUDBWDAXD9YLCXSEW_GVfIVe\ JTTVPNbfHixElvBnu8ps5rr3tq6or8jsAetCauFXvHSwJNxLJy\ KLtJNpJOlIQhIRdHT`GUXGWSFXOFZKE_GDaCDb8Cd4Ce0Gg3Jh\ 5Mi7Qj9TkBWlDZmFbnHeoJhpLkqNorPrsRutTxuVsqUonUjkUf\ hTaeTYbTU_TVYUVWUVUVVSVWQVWOWWMWWKWXIXXGXXEYXCYYAY\ Y8ZY6ZY4Z_8_aB`cEaeHbgLciOdjRelUfnYgp`hrcitfjuiksj\ hqjfpjcnjalkZkkXikUgkSfkPdlNblKalI_lFZlDXiCWgBUeAT\ c9Ra8QZ7OX6NV5LT4KR3JP2LS6NV9PXCR_GTbJVdMXgQZiT`lW\ bo_dqbftegvhcoi_iiWbjTXjPQkLKkHDlE7lH6kK5jN5iQ4hT4\ gW3fZ3ea2dd2cdLTdcIOJOQMS } frm:multirot-XY-ZW-new {; draws 6 planes and rotations ;when fn1-2=i,f, then p1 0,0=M, 0,90=O, 90,0=E, 90,90=J ;when fn1-2=f,i, then p1 0,0=M, 0,90=R, 90,0=P, 90,90=J a=real(p1)*.01745329251994, b=imag(p1)*.01745329251994, z=sin(b)*fn1(real(pixel))+sin(a)*fn2(imag(pixel))+p3, c=cos(b)*real(pixel)+cos(a)*flip(imag(pixel))+p4: z=z^(p2)+c, |z| <= 36 } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================