; Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:47:31 -0400 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 09-04-14 (Ghostly Attractor [A-7,M-4]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20140410174753.2aa71b48@earthlink.net> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- April 09, 2014 (Rating A-7,M-4) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; Today we return to a type of fractal I was working with quite a ; few years ago. The image is a scene in a perturbed Z^2+C ; Mandelbrot set. It is located at the edge of the inside of a ; minor bud on the southwest shore line of the main bay. ; ; The half obscured blue and white buds in the background are ; actually part of the classic M-set itself. The reddish spiral ; arms in the foreground are the trails of points that have ; escaped before being trapped in the remnants of the buds. ; ; What we have here is a demonstration that the points in a ; perturbed M-set, if they do not escape first, will ultimately ; fall into the same orbits as points that originate at 0,0. The ; points in today's image for example originate at 0.7,0.2. ; ; I named the image "Ghostly Attractor" because of the ghost buds ; and also because despite my skeptical nature, I find ghosts ; quite interesting and not at all unlikely to be 'real'. ; ; The art rates a 7, since the image is not all that great. The ; math rates a 4. After all, how unique can the math of the ; Mandelbrot set be at this point of the fractal era. ; ; The calculation time of just under 2 minutes is slow for a scene ; in the Mandelbrot set. The culprit is the maxiter of 250000, ; which slows things down in the lower part of the image, but this ; maxiter was necessary to get full definition in the ghost buds. ; The web sites can greatly cut the length of the wait to see the ; image however. ; ; Escape the life of endless waiting. Check the finished image on ; the FOTD web sites at: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Today here at Fractal Central, which is the almost-real central ; headquarters of the FOTD, spring gave signs that it was finally ; ready to arrive. The brilliant sun, gentle winds, puffy white ; clouds and temperature of 61F 16C was just what any doctor would ; have ordered. The fractal cats soaked up all the sun they could ; find, and chased each other up and down the hallway when the sun ; was at the wrong angle, while the fractal humans made the most ; of the pleasant conditions. ; ; The next FOTD will be posted before too long. Until that moment ; of truth arrives, take care, and try to avoid the cognitive ; instability that arises when we assume something that undermines ; the argument that justified our assumption in the first place. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jimmuth@earthlink.net ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Ghostly_Attractor { ; time=0:01:50.00 SF5 at 2000MHZ reset=2004 type=mandel passes=1 center-mag=-0.5769\ 768387/-0.4519133225/5218/1/146.7/0 params=0.7/-0.2 float=y maxiter=250000 inside=0 logmap=200 colors=000yi0xh0xh0xh0xh0uf0re0oc0lb1i`3h_6eY8bWB_\ VDWUGVSHSRKPRMMPPJOSHMUEKWBJY8H`4Gb3Ee0Df0Bi09k08m\ 08o0Bp6DrEGsMHuUJv`MxhOyoRzvSzzUzzVzzVzzVyzVxzVvyV\ uyWsyWrxWpxWpxWovWmvYlWYkWWiWUhWRfWReWKeWKcWDbWD`W\ D_WDYWEWWEVWEUWEUWESWERWGPWGOWGMWGKWIJWKHYHHYHG`FE\ `CD`FB_C9_98_66Y94YE4WH3WE1WI0V80VA0V80UI0U80UI0S6\ 0SH0S60RH0R60RH1P43PF4P66PF8O89OFBO8BMEDM9EMJFKBFK\ JGKBGKHHJ9JJHKJ9MHHNH9PHFPG8QGFRG8TGFVE6WEGYE7ZDG`\ D9aDJcDBdBLfBBfBMg9Fh9Nj9Ik8Om8Jn8Np8Jq6Js6Ht6Hu4H\ u6Hu6Ju4Ku6Mu6Ou6Pv6Rv6Sv6Uv6Vw6Ww6_w8bx6ex6hx6ky6\ my6py6ry6sz6uz6vz6xz6yz4yz4yz4yz4yz4yz4yz8yzByzEyz\ HyzKyzOyzRyzUyzWyz_yzbzzezzhzzkzzkzzkzzkzzkzzkzzkz\ zkzzkzzkzzkzzkzzkzzkzzkzzkzzkzzyzzyzzyzzyzzyzzyzzy\ zzyzzyzzyzzyzzyzzyzzyzzyzzyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz } ; END PARAMETER FILE========================================= ; ; ; ; _______________________________________________ ; Fractint mailing list ; Fractint@mailman.xmission.com ; http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint ;