FOTD -- November 23, 3002 (Rating 5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: The fractal adventures today are still taking place in the giant claw, this time on the biting edge of the upper claw, where, a short distance inland, I found a two-way symmetry which told me that a Mandelbrot atom was near. Often, these surface symmetries lead to what I call 'dry lakes', where the symmetry ends in a blank, but in this case, a midget was indeed waiting at the bottom of the pit. It's not an outstanding midget, only an average one, with most of the impact coming from the strong color palette. Instead of coloring the outside with the normal equal-iteration bands, I have colored it with the < tdis > option, which creates the fiery terraces surrounding the midget, and explains the name "Fiery Terraces". I have already described the image as average, and that is the way I rated it. The time from parameter file to finished image is 8 minutes on my aging P200 machine. The time required to download the completed GIF image from: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> or from: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> is less than half the render time. The dense fog early Friday lifted by late morning, leading to a cloudy day with occasional sprinkles of rain. The temperature of 49F 9.5C was not enough to make up for the wet grass, leaving the fractal cats with a boring indoor day. A mid-afternoon treat of turkey eased their irritation, but the day was not yet finished. A high wind arose at nightfall, which insured a skittish evening. As for me, I've got a bit of work to do before taking it easy for the rest of the day. I'm departing now, but I'll be back in 24 hours with another (hopefully) awe-inspiring fractal from the great beyond (wherever that is). Until that glorious moment, take care, and what's wrong with the philofractal list? Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ Fiery_Terraces { ; time=0:08:06.53--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=-25.8679/109.482/10.98693/1/-80/2.98339\ 894455601495e-011 params=0.18/-1.5/-0.93/1.8/0/0 float=y maxiter=3600 inside=0 outside=tdis logmap=yes periodicity=10 colors=000CO7GODLQKQQQVSX_SbbSgeQaiOXlNSoNNiTFd_8_\ e2Vj0gY0rN0zA0z00zIIq_l00S35VFIXQVYSSVTOTTLSVKQVGO\ XDNXCLmO7z_0ze2zjAzoGztOzyVSje0Yq0ag0bY0dO3eG8g7Di\ 0Gj00300D02N0AV0Id0Ql0Yt0dz0jz0bz5VqFNgOF_X7Qe0Go0\ 7y00zw0Dz0_z0Yz8YyIYtTXqbXmlXjvXgmTeeQbYNaQLYIIXAF\ T2CS0AGTawjYmqadvbayOYzAVz0jm0yX0w_3vbCveKtiSrl_rm\ glebgY_aQVXISQAOL2KF0GA0Dg00z00z00z03z0Dw0Ot0Yo0gl\ 0qi0og0me0li0jDazNazVazdazlaztazzazzazzazzgzzmzztt\ zyozzizzdyz_eyaNgb3SdCagKiiSrl_zmezoizqjzrmztowtrv\ vtrwvqwtqvrqtrqt_VYVbaa_XgYTlXQrTNyKKzRGtLGlGGdCGX\ 8GO3GG0G80GGASNObVamaoygzzeazcAub0tzidqgG_g0bg0dg5\ egAggGigNjgSlgYmgbqmdttdvyeyzezzezzazqXziSz_NzSIzI\ DzAAz85w72t50q30m20j00lO8mlQmzggXob0vj0zq0zgzrizgj\ zXlzLmzCzqOzS_zQSzOLwNDoN7iL0aK0VK0XQ0XV0Y_7YeF_jL\ _oSYeNYYKXOFXGCX88V03V00V00XDLYgg_ilajqbltdmyeozgq\ z_owSomLmeDmX5mN0lF0l50l0 } 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==================================