; Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:56:01 -0400 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 25-10-05 (Julia Variation-2 [7) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20051025115729.38f79d6e@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- October 25, 2005 (Rating 7) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; Since posting the last FOTD, I have become fascinated with the ; low-order Julia images drawn by the JuliaBC formula, which I ; recently came upon in one of my discarded formula files. ; ; Today's image is a Julia set of the Z^(1.125)+C Mandeloid as it ; appears 11 levels up the complex logarithmic hyperspiral. I ; have named it "Julia Variation-2" and rated it a 7. Since the ; image shows the entire Julia set, it is at a very low magnitude ; and therefore is a very fast one, rendering in under 1 minute on ; my tired, worn-out old P200 clunker with 16mb of memory, a 2gig ; hard disk, an exhaust fan that must be goosed into turning by ; hand, and a CD drive that has not worked in 6 years. ; ; The central spirals and triangles are made of inside stuff ; brought to life by the inside=fmod option and a proximity of ; 0.025. The radiating outer spokes are a natural part of the ; image, which was rendered with the outside parts of the image ; set to the old-fashioned everyday 'iter'. ; ; The image is so fast that it should hardly be necessary to ; download the finished version, but those who wish to do so will ; find the finished product on the FOTD web site at: ; ; ; ; An article in the November 2005 issue of 'Scientific American' ; magazine speculates that life on earth might have originated ; somewhere in outer space and reached earth on a meteorite. The ; most likely source of such a meteorite is presumed to be the ; planet Mars. ; ; Of course, this theory does nothing to explain how living ; material originally arose from dead matter. It merely shifts ; the process to another world, and if the ultimate source of life ; is presumed to have been on a planet in a different solar ; system, gives a bit more time for the miracle to have happened. ; I thoroughly discussed this topic in a recent series of FOTD's, ; so I will not repeat my own views of the nature of life, but I ; once again wonder how it is possible that such an intellectually ; advanced species as our own is still debating its own origin, ; which one would think would be the first question to answer. ; ; Cloudy chilly conditions on Monday here at Fractal Central cut ; short the cats' outdoor time, but not the time they spent in a ; bad mood. When fractal cats get sulky, they squat down and ; scrunch up in the most obvious place they can find, usually in a ; doorway, where they must be stepped over. But thank goodness ; for tuna. Neither Tippy nor Thomas can remain sulky when tuna ; is near. Today is starting rainy, windy and chilly. It will ; not be a good day for the cats. In my department, the work is ; pretty much caught up, so the next FOTD should appear in 24 ; hours on schedule. Until then, take care, and is it possible ; for us to discover what we are? ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Julia_Variation-2 { ; time=0:00:58.66--SF5 on a P200 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=JuliaBC passes=1 float=y maxiter=255 center-mag=0.138015/-0.127115/0.9300138 inside=fmod params=1.125/0/11/0/0.03224847/-0.32755741/0/0 proximity=0.025 logmap=yes periodicity=10 colors=000zzZlgGg_UbSgYKuVNtTPsRRrPUqNWpLYoJ`nHbmF\ dlDgkBij9gi9ff9cd9_b9X_9TY9PW9LT9IR9EP9AM96K93I5AD\ 2H97NDCSHJXLQaPXfSckWjp_ovcsyfmrafhY_ZUSPPFGL37H4A\ I5DI7FI8IJALJCNJEQKFTKHVKJYLL`LMbLP_MSYNVVOYTP`QQc\ ORfLSiJTlHUkGVkFVjFVjEViDViDWhCWhBWgBWgAWf9Xf9Xe8X\ e7Xe7XcCWaGV`KUZOTXTSWXRU`QTdPO_MKVKGQHCLF8GC4CADL\ EMTHV`KchNlpQtxTswSswRsvQsvPruOruNrtMrtLqsKqsJqrIq\ rHqrGnqFlpEioDgnCdmBblA_k9Yk8Vj7Ti6Qh5Og4Lf3Je2Gd1\ Ed0Dc7CbDBaKAaQ9`W8_b7Zh6Zn7`j7bg7dd7f`8hY8jV8lR8n\ O9pL9rH9tE9vB9w8ArABmCBhECcGCZHDUJEPLEKNFFPFBQNAMU\ 9Ia8Fh7Bp67w54r88mBBhEEcGHZJKUMNPPQKRTQTQWVNaXKgZH\ m`EsbBxc9iZFVVKGQQ2MV2J_2Fd2CjSANF9GN8NV7Ua7_ZDZXJ\ YVPXTVW`c4R_WFcAIMwAJj3HYBJUILQQNMXPIaWEcRFeNGfJHh\ FIiBJk7Kl3Kg4Ib4GY5ET5CO6AJ69M87P96RB5UC3WE2ZF1kVD\ `G0cNAfUJjWNh_SgcXfgadjfcnkbrpauuRmjGf_9XT6_Q`L43a\ NAcTGeZNgdTij_kpelufjqfhm } frm:JuliaBC { ; Formula by Andrew Coppin e=p1, p=real(p2)+PI, q=2*PI*floor(p/(2*PI)), r=real(p2)-q, C=p3, Z=Pixel: Z=log(Z) IF(imag(Z)>r) Z=Z+flip(2*PI) ENDIF Z=exp(e*(Z+flip(q)))+C |Z|< p4+100 } ; END PARAMETER FILE========================================= ; ;