FOTD -- December 28, 2001 (Rating 6) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's fractal image has more colors than one can shake an iteration at. In fact, it is so colorful that, at this festive time of year, I had no choice but to name it "Festive_Holiday". The colors actually are a bit overpowering, and for this reason I could rate the image no higher than a 6. The image was created by that overworked but not overvalued formula, MandelbrotMix4, which today combines two negative powers of Z and turns the resulting inside-out image right-side- out by adding 1/C instead of C. To achieve the brilliantly colored effect, I colored the outside with the <tdis> option. Curiously enough, the width of the brilliant yellow band immediately surrounding the midget can be controlled by adjusting the maxiter of the image. The greater the maxiter, the narrower the band. The render time of the parameter file falls 1/100 second short of 5 minutes on my struggling, out-of-shape P200 machine. On a well-tuned machine with washboard abs and bulging biceps, it should finish in less than 2 minutes. The alternate choice is to download the completed GIF image from the W.W.Web at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> or at: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> The fractal weather Thursday here at HQ was once again just about what would be expected at this time of year -- brisk breezes and a temperature that barely reached freezing. This meant that the fractal cats could not venture outdoors in comfort. When the fractal cats want to go outdoors and cannot do so in comfort, they become quite irritable. No surprise then that the normally friendly brothers got into a heated argument that ended with them rolling on the floor, fighting. When they settled their dispute, I treated them to left-over turkey, and peace prevailed for the rest of the day. The only damage is a nick on Thomas's ear and a couple scratches on Tippy's head. It's now time to shut down fractal HQ and call it a night. The cats are still at peace, and a small snack will keep them that way for the rest of the night. Until next FOTD, which will happen in about 24 hours from now, take care, and be prepared for philosophical pondering. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ Festive_Holiday { ; time=0:04:99.99--SF5 0n a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+1.64306827113377100/+0.752710917997295\ 30/536805.2/1/-60/-2.13414834415726062e-010 params=0.4/-14/-4/-1.4/0/525 float=y maxiter=920 inside=0 outside=tdis colors=000mw0mca_MaZLaaMedNh\ fNkiOokOrnPupPxoQuoQroQooQmoQjnRgnRdnRbnR_nRXmSUmS\ SmSPmSMmSKkOHiKEgGBeC8c85a43Z67X7AU8ES9HPAKNCOKDRI\ EUFFYDG`BHcGMZKQVOVRSZMWcI_gEcl9gp5kt1mn3ni5od7qZ9\ rUAsPCuJEvEGw9HuCNtFSsIXqLbpOgoQllSdjUXgWPeYHTNIGC\ J31JMVEcx9btDapH`mK_iOZfSYbVXZZWWbVSeUPiTLmSIpNOZI\ UIdhIfkJhmJjoJkqJmtJovJqxJrzJmuMiqPdlR`hUXdWS_ZOWa\ JRcFNfBJh8df6yeBwhFujKslOqnSopXmr`kteivigxmfzfit`k\ oVnjOpdIs_CuV6wQAvREuSHtTLtUOsVSrVWqWZqXbpYeoZin_l\ n_ikbfidcgg`eiZckW`nTZpQXsNVuLTwNSqPRkRQfTP`VOWXNQ\ ZNL`UTb``dfhfmpgsxervcqtbqs`pq_ppYonWnlVnkTmiSmhQl\ fPleRkdSkdUjcVjcXicYib_hb`hbbgacgaef`ff`he`ie_kd_l\ d_ZgZLjY8lX9eWA_WAUWBOWCIWCCWBFYBIZAL`AOa9Rb9Ud8Xe\ 8_f7bh7ei7gj7eg7de7cb7b`7aZ7`W7_U7ZR7YP7XN8VO9UOAT\ OBSPBRPCQPDPQEOQFNQFMQnQ9USH9TOOBmPIoQOpRUqS`rTfsU\ ltVruXjtZbt`WsbOsdGrf9rWBcLDPKIPJMPIQPHUPGYPFaP } 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==================================