; Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:58:20 -0400 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 06-04-11 (A Paradox of Time [New 5, Old 7]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20110405195820.14dfe16a@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- April 06, 2011 (Rating new 5, old 7) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; With today's image we start a new rating scale. The new scale ; will run from one to ten just as the old scale did, but in the ; new scale a rating of one will indicate an image just barely ; worth FOTD status, whereas in the old scale, anything under a 4 ; was discarded as too poor to be an FOTD. ; ; Today's image shows a cubic minibrot with quadratic tendencies. ; It is located in the area of the large minibrot on the main stem ; of the parent fractal, which is a Mandelbrot set caught morphing ; into a cubic Mandeloid. ; ; The name "A paradox of Time" has nothing to do with relativity ; or time travel. In fact, it has nothing to do with the image at ; all. It is simply what came out when I sat at the keyboard to ; write a name. ; ; Actually, I rather enjoy the somber dark blues areas and spider- ; like networks surrounding the central minibrot. It all creates ; an atmosphere of pleasant sadness. ; ; The calculation time of 45 seconds is almost beyond belief for ; an image of such magnitude created by the FinDivBrot-2 formula. ; It means that the first pass of the image will fill the screen ; before it can shift to Super-VGA mode. ; ; As equally effortless way to see the image is to surf down to ; the active FOTD web site at: ; ; ; ; where the finished image is posted. ; ; The original FOTD web site may be accessed at: ; ; ; ; but it is far from up to date. ; ; My own web site is close, but has not yet arrived. An unex- ; pectedly busy day on Tuesday prevented us from applying the ; intended final corrections. ; ; Tuesday here at Fractal Central began with rain and ended with ; sun. However the temperature fell short of what it should be at ; this time of year, reaching a high of only 43F 11C. The fractal ; cats' moods improved with the increasing sun. By mid afternoon ; they were as happy as indoor cats could be. ; ; The day of the humans was too busy to be as pleasant, though the ; work went well and was finished with an hour or so to spare. If ; all goes equally as well, and why should it not, the next FOTD ; will be posted in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and a ; thoughtful philosopher once said that it is a terrible waste for ; unconscious matter to persist for billions of years, while we ; conscious humans exist only a few score years, and die just when ; we are beginning to figure out what the world is all about. The ; philosopher should have distracted his mind from this harshness ; of reality by purchasing the latest wireless internet devices or ; by taking drugs. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= A_Paradox_of_Time { ; time=0:00:45.54-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm formulaname=FinDivBrot-2 function=recip float=y center-mag=-1.758490804171659/+0.00016810265582086\ /1.5e+011/1/85.5/0 params=3/25/0/0 periodicity=6 maxiter=750 inside=0 logmap=98 mathtolerance=0.05/1 colors=00000A10C20E20G31I42K53M64O75Q86S97UA8XD8cF\ 9hI9kLAoNAsQBwSBzVFvYJr_NnbQjdUfgYbjaZzcczyRzwNzuJ\ vsGzpSmmbcfQU_DKU1`c7znCulGqkJmiMihQefTaeWYc_UbbQ`\ eMZzIWzEUzFUtGUkHQcIJ_JHWKFTLOPMULN_HOeDOeAPdEQdHR\ dKScNTcRUcUVbXWb_XbbScYNcTIcODcJ8cFC`KGZPKXUNVZRcz\ VczZczacz_czZczYczWKcVK_UJXTITRIPQHMPHIUGEMFBZF7ZE\ 3JE0ZF7cFDcFJmFPmFVzG`zGfzGlzGrzGxzHszInzIizJezJ`z\ KWzKSzJQzIOzHMzGLzFJzEHzDFzCEzBCzAAz98z87z75z63z62\ zA6WD9VHCVKFUOJURMTVPTYSS`WSdZRgaRkdQnhQrkPunPxqK3\ jI7hHBgFFfEJdCNcBRb9V`8Z_6bZ5fYH`TTWOdRJpMEsQ9vT5y\ W1tX3oX5jY6eY8aY9`Z8_Z7Z_7Y_6X_5W`5V`zUazTazSazRbz\ QbzPbzNazL`zK`zI_zHZzFZzDYzCXzAXz9Wz7Vz6VzeXzXezOn\ zFvzAwz5xz1yz7vzDtzIrzOpzUnzZlzdmzjmzomzumzzmzpzzZ\ zzIzzmzzmzzmzzmzzmzzmzzmzzmzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz } frm:FinDivBrot-2 { ; Jim Muth z=(0,0), c=pixel, a=-(real(p1)-2), esc=(real(p2)+16), b=imag(p1): z=(b)*(z*z*fn1(z^(a)+b))+c |z| < esc } ; END PARAMETER FILE========================================= ; ; ; ; _______________________________________________ ; Fractint mailing list ; Fractint@mailman.xmission.com ; http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint ;