; Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:50:27 -0400 ; ; To: fractint@mailman.xmission.com ; cc: philofractal@lists.fractalus.com ; ; From: Jim Muth ; Reply-To: Fractint and General Fractals Discussion ; ; ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 25-07-07 (Why Me? [6]) ; ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20070724225554.2acf2a6c@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- July 25, 2007 (Rating 6) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; For today's image we return to the same parent fractal that held ; yesterday's image. This fractal resulted when I mistakenly sub- ; tracted Z^(1.68) from Z^(1.4142) instead of subtracting the ; Z^(1.618), Golden Ratio which I had originally intended. ; ; This parent fractal is a very large near-Mandelbrot set, with a ; messed up Elephant Valley and a runt-like main positive stem. ; In yesterday's image we examined the inner detail of Elephant ; Valley; in today's image we examine the detail of the abortive ; main stem. ; ; What we find there is an area reminiscent of the railyard effect ; found in the negative X-axis area of fractals such as the one ; created by the formula Z^(2.003)+C. And as along that fractal's ; negative X-axis, today's parent fractal is chock full of midgets ; along its positive X-axis. Today's image shows one of these. ; ; I named the image "Why Me?". I gave it this name when I consid- ; ered the vanishingly small chance that this particular fractal ; would ever see the light of day. I rated it at a 6 because to ; me it seems just a tiny bit above FOTD average. If I had put ; more effort into the coloring, I might have raised the image to ; a rating of a 7, but I fear the rating of a modest 6 will remain ; forever fixed. ; ; One thing that will not remain forever fixed however is the ; calculation time. As computers get ever faster, the calculation ; time will shrink from its present 1-1/3 minutes on a P2000, and ; no one can say how brief that time may eventually come to be. ; But the fastest and easiest way to see the image today is to ; forget calculating it and view it on the FOTD web site at: ; ; ; ; Tuesday turned out average in all respects here at Fractal ; Central. The weather was neither unusually good nor bad, the ; work was neither unusually heavy nor light, the fractal cats ; were their typical selves, and the day's fractal is neither good ; nor bad. It is a routine slightly above average. ; ; I'll try again tomorrow to find a truly great image. Of course ; there is no guarantee of success. I don't find most of the FOTD ; fractals. They find me. Until 24 hours have passed, take care, ; and don't take a fractal sitting down. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Why_Me? { ; time=0:01:22.39-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=ident center-mag=+5.893397025006797/+0.00381731276127494\ /3.196234e+008/1/-162.5/0 params=-1/1.68/1/1.4142/\ 0/0/0/0 float=y maxiter=2500 inside=0 logmap=172 periodicity=10 colors=000IAfH0eG0dF0cE0bD0aC0`B0_A0Z90Y80X70W60V5\ 0U40S30Q20O10M00K00I00G00E00C00A008006004002003000\ zravnZqjXlgUgcSb_PYXNTTKPPHMKFJFCFAAB570052r42m62h\ 82cA2ZCFUPSZaccznhzxkcnkada_VRXLHVV4_UCXTKUSSRe4If\ 5Qm6Xz7dz8kz9rzHlzOfrVaiaWihRioLivGksLlpPmmTojXpg`\ qddrahnXgkTfhPfeLebHe_DdX9dUGcRMbPSbMYaJc`Hi`ReS_b\ Jh_AqX1edGVkVKsi9zxBkfDXPEW7PSF_`NjiVtqasn_rlYqiXp\ gVoeTnbSm`QmZPc_KU_FL_An_dj_bf_ab_`Z__W_ZZ`b`afcaj\ ebnhcrjcuddsZerTfqNgoHhnBim5il4hg4hb4hY3gT3gO3gK9e\ MEcNKaPP_QUYRYQP`INZKUYL_XMeVOkUPqTQwTRvTSvTTuTUuT\ VtTWtTXsTYsUVmVTmVQmWOmXLmXJm`JrdJvgJzkJznJzmOzmSz\ mXzm`vmdrmimmmhmqcorZqs`rtatucuvdzw0zx0zy0zz0zz0zz\ 0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zzdzzaz\ z_zzRzzIzz9zz0zz9zzHzzPzzXzzdzzlzzizzfzzdzzazzZzzX\ zzUzzSzzZzzdzzfzzhzzjzzkzzmzzozzpzzgzz_zzRzzJzzAzz\ 2zz6zzAzzDzzHzzLzzOzzMzzK } frm:MandAutoCritInZ {; Jim Muth a=real(p1), b=imag(p1), d=real(p2), f=imag(p2), g=1/f, h=1/d, j=1/(f-b), z=(((-a*b*g*h)^j)+(p4)), k=real(p3)+1, l=imag(p3)+100, c=fn1(pixel): z=k*((a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f)))+c, |z| < l } ; END PARAMETER FILE========================================= ; ; ; _______________________________________________ ; Fractint mailing list ; Fractint@mailman.xmission.com ; http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint