FOTD -- June 30, 2007 (Rating 8) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: It has come to my attention that a rumor is spreading about water in the basement of New Fractal Central. There is a bit of truth to the rumor, though the situation is not nearly as bad as it is back at Old Fractal Central. At old F.C. the basement takes on up to 2 inches of water at every heavy rain -- once or twice a month it seems. But the new F.C. basement has gotten wet only once in the 1-1/2 years we have owned it, and it took a really torrential downpour to put a 1-inch deep puddle in the back corner by the laundry. (When searching for a house, some compromises must be made. A perfectly dry basement was one of the compromises we made.) But there is no compromise in the quality of today's image, which rates a solid 8. The image is an evaporated one that lies in the parent fractal that results when 5 negative parts of Z^(-1.4142) are combined with 0.5 negative part of Z^(-8.7) and (1/C) is added. I named the image "Fractal Nursery" when I had the impression of new fractal images continually being generated in the depths of the scene. The included parameter file calculates in only 1-1/3 minutes on the P2000 machine. It would take around 6 minutes on the P200 unit. But time becomes irrelevant when the image is viewed on the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> A mostly cloudy but otherwise quite pleasant day with a temperature of 77F 25C here at Fractal Central on Friday went un-appreciated by both man and cats. The man was still busy clearing the work back-up; the cats were cranky over too little attention. The back-up will be cleared by tomorrow evening; the next FOTD will appear shortly thereafter. Until then, take care, and when in doubt, figure it out. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Fractal_Nursery { ; time=0:01:20.87-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+0.6820810418/-1.972108182/188631.5/1/\ -75/1.4925312658703449e-007 params=-5/-1.4142/-0.5\ /-8.7/0/1e+100/0/0 float=y maxiter=1000 inside=bof61 periodicity=10 colors=000upkunjtwzwjiwhixfhxdhybgy`gtWcoS_kOWfKSb\ GOb_RbrUZjUVbUSVUONUKFUH7UJGTKOSLXRNdQOmPPuPRrTTpX\ xm`WkdXhhZfl_cpaatb_wYavTbvOdvKevMcsObqPaoR`mTZjUY\ hWXfXWdUUcSTbPSbNRaLPaIO`GN`DM_BK_90K6IZ4HY2GY4Ka6\ Pd8UgAWjCYnE_qGatIcwKezJgzJizJkzImzJmzKmzKmzKmzCmz\ 5mzJmzWmzUdzT`cSXZRTUQPPZMZbIZaEZ`AZV6ZZ3ZJ7UIB8HE\ AGIDFLFEPIDSKCWNBZPDcWFhbHmhJroKvuMkvOavQSwRIwTHsV\ GpXFlZEi`EebDbdCZeBWgASiAPk9Lm8Io7Eq6Br68k79e79_7A\ U7AO8BI8BC8C68CI_hHakOWdVQZ`KSgEMm9GgGCaM9WS5RY2NU\ 9JRFFOLBLRDMTEMUFMWGMXHNYIN_JN`KNaMOcNOdOOfPOgQPhR\ PjSPkTPlRNjPMhNKfMJdKIcIGaGF_FDYDCWBBV99T88R66P45N\ 34M67M9AMCDMEGMHJMKMMMPMPSMSVMUYMX`M_cMafM`cN_aNZ_\ OYYOXWPWUPVSQVQQXPPZPO`OOaONcNMeNMfMLhMLjLKkLJmKJo\ KIpJHrJHtIGuIGtHJsGMsGPrFSrFVqEYqD`pDcpCfoCioBlnAo\ nArm9um9whCxcExZHxUJxPMxKOxFRxATxFWwJZvNauRdtVgsZj\ rbmqfppjsonvnrxmsvlttltrk } frm:MandAutoCritInZ {; 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)+(p4)), k=real(p3)+1, l=imag(p3)+100, c=fn1(pixel): z=k*((a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f)))+c, |z| < l } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================