; Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:43:41 -0400 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 08-06-05 (Fractalville [7]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20050608114520.37672a40@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- June 08, 2004 (Rating 7) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; Alert: the topic of the next three paragraphs is political ; rather than fractal. Those who are bored with politics should ; skip ahead. ; ; The day started with fractal lady complaining of the heat, ; telling me that global warming is getting bad, and they had ; better do something about it before drought kills the crops and ; we all starve. I tried to convince her that she is complaining ; of a temporary localized hot spell in the Mid-Atlantic region of ; North America, not a permanent world-wide rise in temperature, ; but being a proper liberal thinker, she knows that the current ; heat is caused by the evil big greedy corporations that care ; only about their profits and not one bit about the environment ; or the poor people who work for them. ; ; I ended the conversation by telling her that liberals (whatever ; they are) mean well, but they had best get their facts straight ; before offering irrelevant solutions to monumental problems. ; Catastrophic global warming is a real possibility, but a single ; early summer warm spell in Maryland is not a sign that it is ; happening. The real problem is that the human population is ; suffering runaway inflation and under-developed countries are ; starting to develop. Forcing the big corporations to care about ; the environment and pay their workers more money, as she would ; like the government to do, would not end the population explo- ; sion. It certainly would cause prices to rise and inflict more ; hardship on the poor however. ; ; The most effective means of controlling population growth is ; economic development, but the planet has too few resources to ; bring its present population of 6,200,000,000 to the economic ; level now enjoyed in the U.S. Mankind is most likely as doomed ; as F. Lady fears, but from unavoidable over-population rather ; than a global warming that might or might not be in progress. ; ; What better way to cure a downer of a morning than with a good ; fractal. And today's image is well above average. (At least ; IMO.) ; ; Today's image is actually beyond the range of resolution, but ; with such a naturally broken-up image, the slight extra break-up ; caused by the math failure is hardly noticeable. The ; 'mathtolerance' entry that permits such a magnitude to be ; reached is now automatically included in the Fractint parameter ; files. ; ; To find today's very slow image, I went to the southern ; shoreline of the broadened East Valley of the large midget on ; the negative stem of the Z^2.0001+C Mandeloid, and examined an ; unusually fragmented area. What I found there is worth being ; chosen FOTD for June 8. ; ; For some forgotten reason, I named the image "Fractalville", ; not to be confused with Frackville, an old coal-mining town in ; central Pennsylvania. Then I rated the scene at a 7, which ; might be a bit of a gift. ; ; Unfortunately, the image is an unusually slow one, taking almost ; two hours to complete on my old machine. Fortunately, I have ; sent the completed image on ahead to Paul at the FOTD web site ; at: ; ; ; ; where it is posted, ready for download. ; ; A high temperature of 88F 31C on Tuesday kept the fractal cats ; on the shady porch all afternoon, where they stretched out to ; take it easy. They must have had a thoroughly satisfactory ; afternoon, for when they came in, they asked for no tuna. My ; day was average. Today is starting even warmer; I expect ; similarly lazy cats. The next FOTD will appear right here in 24 ; hours, more or less. Until that apocalyptic moment, take care, ; and if the end comes, can a new beginning be far behind? ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Fractalville { ; time=1:57:50.12--SF5 on a P200 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotVE-VP passes=1 center-mag=-1.74990797821024600/-0.000452782810913\ 32/2.790644e+013/1/82.5/-0.0271040593762201867 params=2.0001/0/0/0/0/0/2/0 float=y maxiter=32767 inside=0 periodicity=10 mathtolerance=0.05/1 colors=0003vL4vK4uJ5uI5uH6tG6tG7tF7tE8sD8sC9sB9rAA\ r9Ar9Br8Bq7Cq6Cq5Dp4Dp3Ep2Ep2Go1In1Jn1Lm1Ml1Ol1Pk1\ Rk1Sj1Ui1Vi0Xh0Yg0_g0`f0bf0ce0ed0fd0hc0ic0jb2kb3kb\ 4lb5lb6ma7ma8na9naAoaBp`Dp`Eq`Fq`Gr`Hr_Is_Js_Kt_Lt\ _MqZPoZRmZUkZWiZYgZ`eZbbYd`YgZYiXYkVYnTYpRYrP_oO`l\ MbiLcfKedIfaHhZFiWEkTDlRBnOAoL8qI7rF6sD6pE6mE6jF6h\ F6eF6bG6_G6YG6VG6SF6PE6NE6KD6HD6EE6CE69E65F65FA4FK\ 9HP3IU7KXAL_EMbHPeMQhQSkVUnZWq`Yte_wi`zmcypdzsezpb\ xm_vkXvhUueRtcOs`MrYJpUGoQDjNAeJ7eH5iFBmIHqNNpTToY\ Ynacmiilqokstirqhlnfkleiicdfbcd`ba_aZY`XX_UVZRUYPS\ XMRWJPVHOUEMTBLS9RWBX_DbcFhgHnkJtoLzrNyoJylFxiBxf8\ vdAucCsbEraFp`Ho_JnYLlXMkWOiVQhUSgTThVShXShYSh_Rha\ RhbRhdQhfQhgQhiQikPilPinPipOiqOisOiuNivNixNiyNixPi\ xRixTixVixXixZix`ixbixdiwfiwhiwjiwliwniwpiwriwtiwu\ jusktqlsomrmnqkooipngqmerlcskatj`pibmhdjgfgghdfjae\ lZdnWdobSWhFDeJEcMEaPE_SE } frm:MandelbrotVE-VP {; Jim M. variable escape and power a=p1, z=p2, c=pixel+p3, b=sqr(real(p4)): z=z^(a)+c, |z| < b } ; END PARAMETER FILE========================================= ; ;