; June 8, 1997: Broken Arches ; ; arches ; ; Fractal visionaries: ; ; As promised, todays fractal, which I named "Arches", is another view of ; Seahorse Valley. But whereas yesterday's image showed Seahorse Valley ; as it might be viewed from the X-axis, at the left edge of the screen, ; today's image shows the valley as it might be viewed from the top of the ; screen on the Y-axis. In both cases, the Mandelbrot set must be ; imagined as a three-dimensional object existing in space on both sides ; of the screen. ; ; But one might ask, "where in the picture is the Seahorse Valley? I see ; nothing but a few arches." Look again at the picture, notice the ; straight horizontal ribbon of chaos toward the top of the screen. That ; straight band is Seahorse Valley. Viewed from this angle, it's totally ; unrecognizable. Even more unrecognizable is the valley at -1.25. ; That's it -- that straight-edged band of chaos nearly buried in the ; rubble toward the bottom of the screen. ; ; The odd slices of the Julibrot figure are filled with perfectly straight ; bands of high-iteration chaos such as those in today's fractal. When I ; first saw these bands, I thought the formula wasn't working. But the ; bands are real features, since they correspond to features in the ; classic M-set. ; ; Before I go, I must thank Benno Schmid for those 4-D formulas he sent a ; couple days ago. They gave me just the hints I needed. I had been ; struggling with similar formulas for several months, but I just couldn't ; get them right until I saw how Benno had solved the same problem. After ; I made a few minor corrections in my formulas, they worked perfectly. ; ; For tomorrow, we'll leave the world of four dimensions and return to the ; familiar and easy to comprehend world of the two dimensional screen. ; I've got a good fractal waiting to be posted. ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; ; START COMBINED FILE FOR 19.6=============================== Broken_Arches { ; time=0:00:11.21-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=1960 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm formulaname=Man-YZ-XZ passes=t center-mag=0/-1.38484/1.908986/0.5157 params=0/0.18/1.06/0 float=y maxiter=3600 inside=253 logmap=7 symmetry=yaxis periodicity=10 colors=000WpKNtSTnQPkOLhMHdLF_JEWHCRFBNE9LC8KA7J99\ IAAHBDGDFFFHEHJDJLELNGNQIPSKRUMTWOVYQX_SZZUaYWcYYe\ X_gWajWclVenUgpUgrOdhJ`ZEYRCSZBUNAQJ8WH7aG6gE5mD8n\ CAoCCpCEqCGrCJsCLtCNuCPvCRwCTxCRwFQvHPuJOtMNsOMrQL\ qSKpVJoXInZHm`GlcFkeEjgDiiHgeLeaPcYTbVX`R`ZNdXJhWG\ gZJfaLfdOegQejTdmVcpYcs_bvbbxdftWiqOlnGggJbaMYWOUQ\ RPKUKEWF8ZB2`haneZmbXl_UlXSkVPkSNjPKjMIiKFiHDhEAhB\ 8g96gCBdEGbHK`lUDpYBMToNUoOUoOUoPVpQVpRWpRWpSXpTXq\ TYqUZqV_qW`qWarXbrYcrZdrZes_fs`gsahsaisbjtcktcltdm\ tentfoufpugquhruisvitvjuvkvvlwvlxwmywnzwnzwozwpzxq\ zxqzxrzxszytzytzyuzyvzywzzwzzxzzyzzyzzxzyxzyxzyxzy\ xzyxzyxzyxzywzywzywzywzywzywzywzywzzwzzvzzvzzvzzvz\ zvzzvzzvzzvzzuzzuzzuzzuzzuzzuzzuzzuzzuzztzztzztzzt\ zztzztzztzztzzszzszzszzszzszzszwszwszwszwrzwrzwrzw\ rzwrzwrzwrzwrzwqzwqzwqzwqzwqzwqzwqzvqzvqzvpzvpzvpz\ vpzvpzvpzvpzvpzv00Zmz6lz7 } frm:Man-YZ-XZ {; Jim Muth (thanks to Benno) ; p2 = 0 = Julibrot YZ plane ; p2 = 1 = Julibrot XZ plane ; p2 = >0 <1 = Oblique planes z=real(pixel)+flip(real(p1)), c=imag(pixel)+flip(imag(p1)), a=p2, b=flip(cos(asin(p2))): z=sqr(z)+((a+b)*c), |z| <= 25 } ; END COMBINED FILE FOR 19.6========================================= ;