FOTD -- October 22, 2002 (Rating 6) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: For today's image, I stayed in the same parent fractal that produced the past two FOTD images. The parent fractal consists of a group of weird-shaped Mandeloids, with a jagged filament leading from the eastern-most figure to an immense ring lying farther to the east. Today's image is located in the area where the filament joins the ring. Other disconnected rings lie scattered even farther to the east, but these are not involved in today's image. I may visit these far-out areas in a future FOTD however. The FOTD for today has mixed themes within its single image. The ovaloid elements extending straight out from the center midget create a feeling of rigid inflexibility, while an element of chaos is added by the twisting, jagged filaments in the discontinuities, which cut off parts of some ovaloids. I named today's picture"New World Symphony". There is an actual New World Symphony, which, though it is one of my favorites, has no connection to the image. The name merely expresses a vague feeling of the nature of the scene. I was about to rate the image at a 7, but then I recognized the resemblance to several earlier FOTD's and decided to drop the rating to a 6. This is still above average, but only slightly. The render time of the parameter file is a nominal 8 minutes on my aging fractal computer. That time will be correspondingly shorter on newer, faster machines. The image may be seen by running the parameter file, or by downloading it from one of the FOTD web sites at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> and at: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> The weather Monday here at F.C. was rather pleasant for late October. Morning clouds burned off by noon, leading to a sunny mild afternoon with a temperature of 61F 16C. The dynamic cats took full advantage of the mild conditions by lurking several hours in the holly thicket, where the holly berries, which decorate at Christmas and feed the wintering birds, are just beginning to ripen. As for me, I'm just beginning another day's work, and it's time to turn off the fractal mode until the work is finished. Until tomorrow near this same time, take care, and take your fractals one day at a time. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ New-World_Symphony { ; time=0:08:25.20--SF5 on a p200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+14.85388666226842000/+3.33258103639216\ 100/1.357932e+010/1/37.5002411640105464/0.00051634\ 534215157929 params=-6/-1.23/-1/-12.3/0/0 float=y maxiter=600 inside=0 logmap=177 periodicity=10 colors=000H05J06L07K08P09L0AS0BN4CV7DPBEXEGSIHZLJV\ MK`SM_ROcZPdXReeSfcUglVhjXioYhmXglWgiWffVfcVe`UeYU\ dUTcRScOSbLRbIRaFQaCQbBNbBLbAJcAHc9Fc9Dd9Bd89d87e7\ 5e73e71AHwDKtFNqIQoKSlMVjPYgR`eUbbWe`YhY`kWbmTepRg\ sOiuMtlVsiWsgXseYsbZr`_rZ`rX`rUarSbqQcqNdqLeqJfqHf\ T`V4tK6rI7pH8nG9lFAjDBhCCfBDeAFc8Ga7H_6IY5JW3KU2LS\ 1MR0KS2JT3IT4HU6GV7FV8EW9DXBCXCBYDAZE9ZG8_H7`I6`J4\ SL2KN1CO89`E6mK3zM8zNDzOIzQNzRSzSXzUazVfzWkzXpzZly\ `iybexdbxfZwhWwjTvlPvnMupIurFttBtv8sw5svFmvOhvXcve\ Zrf`ngajhbgiccjd_keWlfTlhPmiLnjHokEplAqm6rn3ro7dmB\ RlFDkZOcqYXWIeA3nF5iK6eP8aU9YZBTcCPhELmFHqGDyC9vGA\ sJBqNCnQDkTDiXEf_FccGafHZiHWmIUpJRtKOwLMzLOdLPJLLP\ NHVOC`Q8fR4lT0rU2qY3pa4pe5oi6olGUaQ9ROAPNBNLCMKDKI\ EJHFHFGGEHECIDBJBAKASXCihDztEtpFnmGijHcfIYcJT`KNXL\ HUMCRNQMPcHRpCTlIXhO_dUca_fYejUkmRppXcmbRkhEim1gk3\ dj5bh7_g9YeBWdDTCYbEU_GQW } 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==================================