; Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:22:23 -0400 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 14-10-10 (Sparkling Waters [7]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20101013222226.11e7dfcc@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- October 14, 2010 (Rating 7) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; While viewing the image that Roger posted to the list Tuesday ; evening, I became so interested in the curious formula that I ; checked to see what I might be able to do with it. Returning to ; the default parameters of 0,0 and magnitude of 0.67, I found ; today's scene in one of the vague bud valleys of the Mandel-like ; parent. ; ; I have never seen anything quite like the image I came up with. ; When rendered at a very high resolution, it almost looks like a ; true-color image, though the standard 640x480x256 rendering ; creates a rather gritty but still notable scene. ; ; The scene itself is apparently a minibrot in the East Valley ; area of a larger minibrot. The parent fractal however consists ; of only the western half of a Mandelbrot set, with no East ; Valley, so today's image must lie in the East Valley area of a ; minibrot on the filament extending from the largest bud. ; ; I named the image "Sparkling Waters". Something about it ; reminds me of a just-opened bottle of soda water. The rating ; of a 7 seems about right. ; ; The calculation time of a mere 2-1/4 minutes actually seems a ; bit too brief for such a detailed image, but that's the way ; fractals are. The image may be viewed by saving this entire ; letter in DOS text mode with a .par extension, copying it into ; your Fractint directory, and running it as you would any other ; parameter file. Or all this work may be avoidved by going to ; the FOTD web site at: ; ; ; ; and viewing the finished image posted there. ; ; Near perfect though slightly chilly conditions prevailed here at ; Fractal Central on Wednesday, with cloudless skies and a tempera- ; ture of 61F 16C. The fractal cats slept in the sun to ward off ; the slight chill. My day was average, which is the way I like ; things. ; ; The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours. Until then, take ; care, and the here and now is but an infinitesimal hyperplane ; sliced from the infinity of spacetime. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Sparkling_Waters { ; time=0:02:16.87-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=shells.frm formulaname=NovenaM2 passes=1 center-mag=+0.384602701512/-0.621157851044/2409632\ /1/-132.5/0 params=0/0/0/0 float=y maxiter=32000 inside=255 periodicity=0 colors=000mzzmxzrwzquzpszoqznozmmzlkzkizggzcez_czW\ azS_nOYnLViIReFMaCIY9DT69N34J00E01A02A02A03I04I04I\ 0BI0HIJNIHTIFZII_GK`FMaEPbDRcCTcBWdAYe9_f8bg7dh6fh\ 5YeGQbRI``AYk2WuJuONkPRbPVUPZUz_UzaUz_Uz`UzbUzcUzd\ WzfZzg`zhcmj`mkcmqecnhctjczzzzwzzzmzwzzzmzwRzmPvkN\ vjKviIviGvhEvgCvgAreCndDkbEgaFd_G`ZHXXIUWJQUKNTLJR\ MGQNLPQQOTVNWZNZcM`hLclLfqKivJlzJnyFpxCqx9sw6tw3ur\ 5rn7oj8leAiaCfYDcTF`PHYLIVGKSCMP8NNAPLCRJDTHFVFGXD\ IZBK`9Lb7Nd5Of3Qh1Rj0Sk3Sk5Sk7TlATlCTlETmHUmJUmLUn\ OUnQVnSVoVVoXVoZ21V74UB7TFASJDRNFQRIPVLOZONbRMfTLb\ SP_SSWSVTSYQS`MSdJSgFSjCSm9SpBUnCVlDWjEXhFYfHZdI_b\ J``KaZLbXNcVOdTPeRQfPRgNShMSgQSgTSgXSg_SgcSgfVThYE\ j`0lY4jW7iUBhREgPIfNLeTSiZZlcdoiksorvtxyolmk`bgPSc\ DH_LLWTPS_SOgWKo_HvbWjhiZmwNrvOmvPhvQcsVfp_hnckkhm\ iloknklpgmrcnt_ovWpwTfqYYkaOeeF_i6Um5Ydzzzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzmmm } frm:NovenaM2 {; Another Mandelbrot-like set for Novena. ; The Nova Formulae, discovered by PGD. ; Freely distributable but may not be sold. z=-0.5+(-1.75)^(0.5) c=pixel: z2=z*z z3=z*z2 func=z3+z-2 der=3*z2+1 oz=z z=z-(func/der)+c |oz-z|>p2 } ; END PARAMETER FILE========================================= ; ; ; ; ; _______________________________________________ ; Fractint mailing list ; Fractint@mailman.xmission.com ; http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint ;