; Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:47:35 -0500 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 07-03-13 (Back to Earth [7.5]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20130307164632.2b5f1d48@earthlink.net> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- March 07, 2013 (Rating 7.5) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; The ship that in yesterday's image was sailing space has ; foundered. Someone has let the wind out of its solar sails. It ; is stuck in the intergalactic doldrums, where it will remain ; forever, a derelict to remind us that our fondest dreams must ; remain unfulfilled. And despite the technophiles' optimistic ; pronouncements, technology will never be able to match our ; ability to dream unfulfillable dreams. ; ; Before we will be able to venture peaceably into space, we will ; need to solve the economic and environmental problems facing us ; on the surface of our planet. The rest of the world is tired of ; seeing people in the U.S. and other advanced countries living ; lives of luxury at their expense. They rightfully demand part ; of the material action. They claim that it is time for all ; people in all countries to enjoy lives like we in the West have ; been living for a century or more. The problem is that it would ; take at least four planet earths to supply the resources for ; this to be possible, and it would be politically impossible to ; squander resources to venture into space until the economic ; inequalities are solved one way or the other and we are able to ; live in peace. ; ; Since this is not about to happen, we're stuck on earth, where ; we will continue to dream awesome dreams and watch them pop like ; bubbles. The time could never be better to turn to fractals for ; distraction from this harsh reality. ; ; Today's image lies in the center of the 'fan' of one of those ; 'double negative' parent fractals. I rated it a 7-1/2 out of ; generosity. Most of the color was created by the Fractint ; program, the DOS program that will not die, and might even ; outlive the PC it was written to run on. ; ; The calculation time of 4-3/4 minutes is slow, but the web sites ; are still there. ; ; The finished image is available online at: ; ; ; ; With hi-def variations at: ; ; ; ; and thousands of back images at: ; ; ; ; Today produced a mix of clouds and sun, with more clouds than ; sun here at Fractal Central. The fractal cat, realizing early ; that he would have little sun to stretch out in, spent most of ; the day eating and sleeping, wishing he could have lived back at ; the Old Fractal Central when it was the one and only official ; Fractal Central and the old fractal cats (now gone) spent their ; days outside, watching, chasing and occasionally catching birds ; and bugs. The humans spent the day feeling down because of what ; we see on the declining news channels as the declining condition ; of our culture. ; ; As for the next FOTD, it will be posted when the time comes. ; Until whenever, take care, and what is the evolutionary ; advantage of the human ability to so vividly imagine so many ; things that, because of the body's limitations, we will be ; forever incapable of doing? ; ; ; Jim (what a waste of imagination) Muth ; jimmuth@earthlink.net ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Back_to_Earth { ; time=0:04:45.00 SF5 at 2000MHZ reset=2000 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+2.744488223675127/-0.04951958592821827\ /1.377578e+010/1/-140/0 params=-1/-11/-11/-1.1/0/\ 800/0/0 float=y maxiter=2400 inside=0 logmap=364 periodicity=6 colors=000hCNbJWXQdEKMHC2KSMKUcbUFUfb9RNCUWFXdI_mO\ vqMls79zCJxHTvo14modcjjUfpJjGKf`580DOTFN_SlsQSTB`V\ czUhRh`VmTZq9n_DjgHfnPqONid6G`BOgGWndwqYpsRitP_MNa\ ci1BcBNXKZRUj557EHOISd16hBNoyfwddv`IHXNRTTaPYkavYT\ liscTjc_abgTbnhp4`kMTfc_e2SzUm37oZmS_cQ`iNao60oBDq\ GQshsorM7aVXk10dBFYKTRUgZG3UOMPWctCHAEHDKRGRaJNka8\ ychzq`f`an9JmVX5G5SA4OGDiOJhVOgbUfiJMo82XUAEnHCjSA\ gb7cm5_xB`wThvGaz8es00FcJYYQeRXmNL4MQIMUVLZhDYUH`g\ rEUrLCaUZqD9iKL`QYTXiQXYN_iBLzGUwA1GJE_KRjoRTgU__X\ gS_nFphX3CTFSPRf18rBOt`KwFa3HbMJbciCYbJcXQiRXoIknK\ fr57zDYvRbdObmPHZNK0y8ykJwYTvETVHPcJelcFrXNsRbzLH9\ LPQcIexUDFviIlosHoaSrzc3zdHzeVcahVUiRUmOUq6jLAkUEl\ cImlknddohYpmRqq6rCBsSGtf_uUWv`SwgOxnsymgzpWzslzye\ zxZzwSzvez1VzULz`LzgLzn6zrkzIYzaeztVzuczhczkczoczr\ czsmztmzumzEmzTmzgzzWzzIzzVzzczzlzzDzz2zzUzzCzzZzz\ KzzXzzizzYzzezzmzzuzzuzzu } 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 ;