FOTD October 30, 2003 Today's image and discussion originally appeared as the FOTD for May 08, 1997. Both are reproduced here as they originally appeared. ================================================== Fractal of the day, May 08, 1997 Fractal visionaries: Today's fractal again comes from my most prolific and unpredictable formula file -- mandnewt.frm. Sometimes these formulas produce blank screens, sometimes they produce blank screens when the inside fill is set to a single color, but rich fractal images when the inside is set to bof60 or bof61, sometimes they produce Newton's images, sometimes they produce mandeloid images, and sometimes they produce a combination of all of the above. Today's fractal falls into the all of the above category. To see how much of it is inside fill, redraw the image with the inside set to 0 and the passes set to t. With the detail removed it will take only a few minutes. To add my part to the survey, let me say that I use Fractint about 80 percent of the time, an old shareware program by Scott Jones called "Recursive Realm" about 15 percent of the time, and all the other fractal programs about 5 percent of the time. I haven't yet had time to check most of the other fractals posted here, but things are beginning to slow down now businesswise, so over this weekend I'll see how many of the other posted parameter files I can find time to draw. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START FORMULA FILE======================================== frm:MandNewt03 {; Jim Muth z=c=pixel: a=z^3+(c-1)*z-c b=p1*z^p2+c-1 z=z-p3*a/b .0001 <= |a| } horseshoe { ; time=0:03:17.35--SF5 on a P200 reset=1950 type=formula formulafile=mandnewt.frm formulaname=MandNewt03 passes=1 center-mag=-1.01\ 365/2.22045e-016/0.7408645/1/90 params=5/0/2/0/4/0 float=y maxiter=304 inside=bof61 logmap=yes periodicity=7 colors=000F5f<2>I1fI0fK4g<17>dyw<19>\ pOu<4>Gey<7>A1C<7>g24<15>2Np<12>qzn<24>EZD<20>PlnP\ loQkm<17>Q`G<10>yGs<17>ifN<3>5Qm<9>yfC<30>bgpbgqaf\ p<8>Zeo6Kg<8>E7f } END PARAMETER FILE========================================