; Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 10:19:40 -0400 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 01-10-05 (Double Spiral [6]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20051001102214.2b8f9b92@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- October 01, 2005 (Rating 6) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; We have come to the end of the series of scenes in the fractals ; created by the square root of two. The series was neither a ; great success nor a great failure, but it did contain a few ; interesting images. It is now a new month and time to start a ; new theme. For the month of October I have decided to unpack ; some of the formulas I wrote a while back but then stored away ; and forgot about. ; ; For today's FOTD I unpacked a formula I wrote around 10 years ; ago and named 'ManZpwrAbs'. I have no idea why I wrote it or ; what it is supposed to do, though I am certain it has nothing ; to do with body-building. The images it draws have a kind of ; 'all look the same' appearance, but some of them are worth at ; least a second glance. ; ; At first glance, the parent fractal of today's image looked like ; a giant bat flying west. Then I gave it that second glance, and ; noticed several interesting areas. Zooming into one of these ; areas, I found total chaos. I switched the 'outside' to 'fmod' ; with a 'proximity' factor of 1.5. The resulting fractal was a ; twisted, stretched and skewed chaotic mess, but it held areas of ; promise. By untwisting, unstretching and unskewing a small area ; of the image, I found today's scene, an image that is just ; chaotic enough to be interesting. ; ; The large spiral on the right is actually two spirals, one ; winding clockwise, the other, counter-clockwise. This "Double ; Spiral" inspired the name. The rest of the scene is strangely ; unpredictable, with features scattered about haphazardly, almost ; like a trash dump in the 'real' world. Some of these smaller ; features might make better images than today's, but at this time ; I will not check. There are too many old forgotten formulas to ; work through. ; ; The rating of a 6 is perhaps a bit high, but I decided to do ; myself a favor and treat myself to a slightly above average ; FOTD rating. There can be no complaints about the render time, ; which is a speedy 1-1/2 minutes even on my 9-year-old broken- ; down P200 machine. ; ; But my tired old computer can at least run Fractint, which is ; more than some of the newer units I have checked can do. Unfor- ; tunately, some fractal fans have one of these new-fangled ; machines, and are therefore Fractint-deprived. But the cure is ; available on the FOTD web site at: ; ; ; ; where the already-rendered image has been posted. ; ; Friday was sunny but a bit chilly here at Fractal Central. The ; high temperature of 68F 20C fell within the cats' comfort zone, ; enabling them to spend the afternoon lurking in comfort in the ; holly thicket. My day was rather busy, but everything was ; wrapped up before the day ended. Today is starting much the ; same. The next FOTD will appear in 24 hours. Until then, take ; care, and launch out into new territory. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Double_Spiral { ; time=0:01:36.56--SF5 on a P200 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=jim.frm formulaname=ManZpwrAbs passes=1 center-mag=-0.6401689518885381/+2.760849241510850\ /1671.162/0.9379/38.0489798713000269/-10.806740679\ 1004323 params=8/0/-2/0/0.5/0 float=y maxiter=1500 inside=0 proximity=1.5 outside=fmod periodicity=10 colors=800kZzkZzm`zkZzkXzkXzkVzkVzkTzkTzkQzkQzkOzk\ OzkMzkKzkKzkIziIziGziGziEziEziCziCziAzi8zi8zi6zi6y\ i4yi4yi2wg2wg0ug0ug0sg0sg0sg0qg0qg0og0og0og0mg0mg0\ kg0kg0kZ0qT4uKEzEMz8Xz8dz8oz8yz8wz8wz8wz8wz8wz8wz8\ wz8uz8uz8uz8uz8uz8uz8uz8sz8sz8sz8sz8sz8sz8sz8qz8qz\ 8qz8qz8qz8qz8qz8oz8oz8oz8oz8oz8oz8oz8mz8mz8mz8mz8m\ z8mz8mz8kz8kz8kz8kz8kz8kz8kz8iz8iz8iz8iz8iz8iz8iz8\ gz8gz8gz8gz8gz8gz8gz8dz8dz8dz8dz8dz8dz8dz8bzAbzFbz\ KgzPkzUozZuzczzhzzmzzrzzvzzzzzvzzrzzmzzhzzcwzZqzUi\ zP`zKVzGMzGEwG8sG0oG0kI0iI0iI0iI0gI0gI0gK0gK0dK0dK\ 2dK2dK2bK4bN4bN4bN6`N6`N6`N8`P8ZP8ZP8ZPAZPAXPAXPCX\ 8AU8AU8AU8AU8AU8AU8AU8AU8AU8AU8AU8AU8ATAASABRACQAD\ PAEOAFNAGMCHLCIKCJKBKK9LK7MI5NI6OI7PI8QG9RGASGBTGC\ UEDVEEWEFXEGYCHZCI_CJ`CKaALbANcAPdARe8Tf8Vg8Xh8Zi6\ `i6bi6ei0gi4ei6bk8`kC`mEZmGXoKVoMVqOTqTRqVPsXNs`Nu\ bKudIwiGwkGymEyqCzsAzu8zy } frm:ManZpwrAbs {; Jim Muth z=c=pixel: z=(p1*(z^|z|))+(p2*z^p3)+c, |z| <= 100 } ; END PARAMETER FILE========================================= ; ;