; Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 10:03:48 -0400 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 09-10-05 (Prayer Wheel [6]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20051009100503.2ab7ed00@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- October 09, 2005 (Rating 6) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; In the middle ages the politically powerful Catholic Church sold ; indulgences. By purchasing an indulgence with earthly money, ; bereaved relatives could buy their loved one's way out of purga- ; tory and end the soul's suffering. This required the ridiculous ; assumption that God's favor could be bought with money, but from ; what I read, the indulgence business, along with obligatory ; contributions, under penalty of hell-fire, kept the churches and ; monasteries going rather well. ; ; Other religions have similar short cuts to spiritual success. ; Buddhists had prayer wheels, which worked much like the Catholic ; indulgences once did. Instead of spending hours saying the ; proper prayers, a devout Buddhist needed only to spin the right ; prayer wheel, and the prayer recorded on that wheel would be ; sent to the creative higher power, which in this case is not ; considered a supreme superman-like being. For some strange ; reason, today's image reminds me of a Buddhist prayer wheel. ; ; The formula that did the deed is named 'Mytest09'. It appears ; to have been written around the same time I wrote yesterday's ; 'Mytest07' formula, and like that formula, the purpose of ; today's formula, if any, is a mystery. But mysterious or not, ; today's formula, with its two changeable functions, creates a ; large variety of fractals. ; ; The one active function I used in today's image is called ; 'cosxx'. (The 'ident' function acts as no function.) Don't ; try looking up cosxx in a math book because it will not be ; there. The function is actually a mistake that was made in an ; early version of Fractint and was kept in the program because ; it creates some interesting fractals. ; ; Today's image was rendered with the outside set to 'tdis', ; though there is very little to distinguish this rendering from ; the outside=iter version. ; ; The rating of a 6 seems appropriate for today's effort. And the ; render time of only 9+ seconds can hardly be beat. It will take ; several times as long to go to the FOTD web site at: ; ; ; ; and download the completed image from there. But for those with ; Fractint deprived computers, this might be the only way to view ; the scene. ; ; The rain fell heavily all day Saturday here at Fractal Central, ; adding up to something over 7-1/2 inches, 190mm, and creating ; much local flooding, including the Fractal Central basement, ; which boasts a brand-new puddle of water. I guess we can blame ; it on the farmers, who for several months have been praying so ; hard for rain. Now that their crops are lost, God has finally ; sent the rain. In fact, He has sent so much rain that in addi- ; tion to losing their crops, some farmers have lost their homes ; as well. I guess you just can't win when bargaining with a god ; who, as the nuns told me in school, works in mysterious ways. ; ; The fractal cats have far more important things than God to ; concern themselves with. Their yard looks like a frog pond, ; and it will be several days before it dries out enough to be ; stepped on by sensitive cat paws. They are not about ready to ; start praying, but their mood is as dismal as a swamp, and they ; are demanding all the extra tuna I can give them. Tuna can do ; only so much for disgruntled cats however, and better weather ; will be needed before they are once again themselves. ; ; Unfortunately, better weather does not seem to be near. Today ; is starting very cloudy with showers forecast, and in addition ; it is much cooler. It looks like a bum day coming up for the ; duo. For me it looks like another average day. The next FOTD ; will appear in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and get your ; vectors straight. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Prayer_Wheel { ; time=0:00:09.69--SF5 on a P200 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=jim.frm formulaname=Mytest09 function=ident/cosxx center-mag=-0.529901/-0.0707615/0.181739/0.6708 params=3/0/1/1/-1/0 float=y maxiter=95 inside=0 outside=tdis periodicity=0 colors=000zhI9JHOG6IPBGbp14g7JUn7N`LJS_CNTcNYXDP7D\ SADVDj9waGlUMaLSRn1`8F3AM8CSCDZSDWM4Qaac1P`9GewFcl\ EaaD_Rp0_bCTQNM7dXA`OGeHFbGE_GX8iQH_JQQ2Qs5Si8U_BW\ QRQMNSKKUJGWHwo1_f9r2cdDWROOps7bkAQdDoW3WXAdsoRhYS\ BcNJWIRO8LIEIqB3qCJZU6LPDJXPFMCF6Ob4Xc2ec0mcB`VLPN\ VDFApQ0PCsqtqswpuzbmjXcVQeVImEGiFFeFEaGTT7LWCysn`h\ XNNBKQDITEFWFxeEJjhJ8sHFiGL_ESQIaZF_PPz7LpAHfD7ErA\ OZl2AcACVIDMQFXcqfgX45u9K`8`5WsghOtYSfNVTq4VqcP4VT\ 9XMwmTkiP_eMOaJSpOOkMKfKGaIvMw_SaOl6IdBS6x6OVoYceY\ YWYSMYMjX8UYCZMcTPYOSSIVMBP`M4FHJGVNMPRKJVIxn3`eAz\ cJiaIT_HVBMMNJtGteMfRSTSJ1KR9hGuTP`IuCFiE2iv5fk8c`\ B`QmeQGHHFNGETGlUW`WQPXLcLgVQYMUPg42_C6SJ9KRD8rdBg\ SkaRvyEaQaPURLncIhWFbOkvPbNNWQLQTJJWH`eUCkzDgnDdbD\ `RtNxZTaeHYYMTRQPKUKFIcEOWDTOIkYGfSEaMhXkD1fX_XNZO\ IV24zF9kGSn4f4vSJ`ph2fe6Xb9N_D1ni7eVT1GPAGLIGHQG4r\ o7lf9gYBbPTcnL`Xil6TdB8ku } frm:Mytest09 {; Jim Muth z=fn1(pixel), a=real(p3), b=imag(p3), c=a+(b*pixel): z=(((z^p1)*fn2(z))^p2)^(-p2)+c, |z|<=100 } ; END PARAMETER FILE========================================= ; ;