FOTD -- March 15, 2003 (Rating 9) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's fractal is one of my all-time best. (IMO, of course) So I have rated it at a lofty 9, a rating achieved by very few previous images. The image is actually a variation of an early FOTD image named Ice Tree, which will be included on the FOTD CD. That earlier image has the tree firmly rooted in the ground, whereas today's variation shows it floating suspended in mid air. The icy decoration from the earlier image is still coating the branches of the tree, and in addition, two ice-coated bushes appear at either side of the floating tree. The image itself is a scene in the Z^1.5+C Julibrot, sliced in a direction rotated 4 degrees from the Julia direction toward the Elliptic direction. Changing the exponent of Z a few hundredths in either direction causes curious variations in the character of the tree. The coloring is entirely hand-done, and accounts for 99-percent of the image's worth. An extra benefit is the short 2-minute render time of the parameter file. Another good point is that the finished GIF image may be picked up from Paul's web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> and from Scott's site at: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> The weather was sunny but quite chilly here at Fractal Central on Friday. The morning low of 26F -3C and afternoon high of 41F 5C kept the dynamic duo, which is no longer quite as dynamic, confined to the sunny porch, which has been cleared of debris but is still roofless. They watched with interest as the meanest tomcat in the neighborhood passed by, finally deciding that discretion is the better part of valor and letting the intruder pass in peace. Today was sunny and milder, and the neighborhood bully did not appear. The duo spent almost an hour roaming the yard. I'm still quite busy, both with the FOTD-CD and more profitable work, but the fractals will continue coming at a weekly rate while the disk is in work. Until next Saturday, take care, and treat fractals with respect. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ Floating_Tree { ; time=0:02:26.76--SF5 on a p200 reset=1960 type=formula formulafile=icetree.frm formulaname=multirot-XY-ZW-new function=ident/flip passes=1 center-mag=0.0597552/-1.60982e-015/4.5911\ 12/0.6279/-90/3.88578058618804789e-016 params=90/86/1.5/0/-0.55/0/-0.2/0 float=y maxiter=750 inside=253 logmap=yes periodicity=10 colors=000OezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezO\ ezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOez\ OezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOe\ zOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezUAZU9XU8VU7TU6RU5PU4NU\ 3LU2JU1HU0FU0EU0DU0CU0BU0AU09U08U07U07U07U07U07U0A\ U0FU0KU0PU0UU0ZU0cUKhUPm0Ur0ZwKczShzXmzZrzbwzgzzkz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezO\ ezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOez\ OezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOe\ zOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezO\ ezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOez\ OezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOe\ zOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezO\ ezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOez\ OezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOezOe\ zOezOezOezOezOezUUcUUcUUc } 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 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE==================================