the sea and air reorganize themselves that =
radically without doing so violently with massive hurricane-like storms,<=
/DIV>
floods...) Moreover, the landmass in the vi=
cinity of present-day Indonesia is the size Plato described. Its location=
seems
off by about 20,000km, but apparentl=
y the name "Atlantic Ocean" originally applied to the ocean then believed=
to circle
the Old World -- before they kne=
w about North and South America the name Pacific Ocean was not even inven=
ted!
And Atlantis was reputedly destroyed b=
y floods, earthquakes, and volcano shortly after fighting a war with
"unimaginable" weapons. The site in question is=
highly volcanic owing to plate subduction nearby, and would have flooded=
rapidly with the thawing of the ice age.=
DIV>
2. The Norse myth of Ragnarok. Reading between the lines, it so=
unds like a (distorted) lesson about something we found
=
very frightening during the 60s, 70s, and 80s -- Mutually As=
sured Destruction. Doesn't it seem at least somewhat
&nb=
sp; plausible that some ancient civilization blew themselves up? In=
Ragnarok, the gods go to war and destroy each other and
 =
; the world with them. Nuclear war, anyone? I wonder how big =
the Mighty Hammer 'Mjollnir' was -- 60 megatons or 100?
=
In the climate record, there's a mysterious 700-1300 year co=
ld period after the end of the ice age called the Younger
&nbs=
p; Dryas (the name refers to oak pollen used to date the peri=
od and guess its climate -- presumably the Older Dryas was
&nb=
sp; the ice age itself). It is poorly-explained, but wooly ma=
mmoths were frozen in fierce blizzars while munching on summer
grass so its onset was very sudden. Now what was that=
frightening possibility that people raised regarding long term
effects from nuclear war? I seem to recall it was ca=
lled "nuclear winter"... 3. The Biblical stories of Exodus and=
Revelation. Ever seen 'Dante's Peak'? The fish boiled in the lake? The a=
cid waters? The
lava flows? The mud flows a=
nd floods? The town pulverised by a volcanic explosion?
&=
nbsp; It's been accepted in archaeological circles that the "=
shout"
that felled the walls of Jericho was=
real, and was an earthquake in that notoriously earthquake-prone place c=
alled the
Middle East. Exodus and Revelatio=
n sure sound like volcanic events, probably on the ultra-plinian scale, V=
EI 7 or 8.
(That level, BTW, makes Krakatoa=
look like a wet firecracker by comparison. The scale is logarithmic, jus=
t like the Richter
scale for earthquakes.) =
Indeed, fish boiled in volcanically-heated waters are a decent candidate =
for the "loaves and
fishes" that fed t=
he Israelites, who sure sound like refugees from a colossal natural disas=
ter. Present-day Indonesia is a
good candid=
ate site for such a prehistoric disaster. Revelation has several passages=
of special significance, for its
"Beast" i=
s clearly none other than a volcanic island or mountain chain -=
- - one including seven major mountains or islands,
=
ten individual volcanic vents or peaks, and a hellish am=
ount of fire and brimstone to hurl onto the surrounding landscape.
=
The passage about the Beast seeming mortally woun=
ded with one head cut off, only for it to regenerate, sounds a lot
=
like what happens every time Krakatoa (from that =
very region) blows its top -- the whole mountain is destroyed, but the
volcanic vent soon constructs a new one. One =
of the Beast's heads regularly falls off and regenerates to this very day=
!
The "number of the beast" probably refers=
to the visual appearance of the area -- three of the peaks have a "tail"=
off
the mountain peak, making it look=
in relief topography like three sixes! (Historical note: in addition to =
the well-known
Krakatoa explosion of the la=
te 1880s, it did its thing in the 15th century too, with markedly similar=
results -- a large
portion of the island w=
as utterly destroyed, and it regenerated by volcanic means, producing a n=
ew island amid the
exposed fragments of the=
old -- which was itself destroyed in the 1880s eruption, only to be curr=
ently growing back
again.)
 =
; Incidentally, a VEI 7+ volcanic eruption would probably hav=
e caused a 700-year winter as effectively as a nuclear war.
&n=
bsp;
Thus, there is much evidence to support a hypothesis that=
an advanced civilization existed near present-day Indonesia 11,600 years=
ago, probably spawning offshoots elsewhere, fought an internecine confli=
ct with nuclear weapons in its final
years, and was thus weake=
ned into a state where an exploding volcano and nuke-and-volcano-assisted=
climate fluctuations
delivered the coup-de-grace.
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 02:37:33 -0500
From: "Multiple Bogeys"
Subject: Re: (fractint) Earthquake As Artist
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 02:39:10 -0500
From: "Multiple Bogeys"
Subject: Re: (fractint) C-FOTD 24-03-01 (Time for Closure [6])
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> Today's fractal image resembles a twisting spider's web closing
> on its victim, which is the midget at the center. This inspired
> the rather unlikely name "Time for Closure".
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Via 'Charlotte's W=
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 11:09:38 EST
From: JimMuth@aol.com
Subject: (fractint) C-FOTD 25-03-01 (Bits and Pieces [3])
Classic FOTD -- March 25, 2001 (Rating 3)
Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:
Today's fractal is hardly worth its exalted status as FOTD for
March 25. With almost no time to spare, I went to the parent
fractal of a recent FOTD, named it "Bits and Pieces", and
anointed it FOTD for March 25.
The rush is still due to the move into the new Fractal Central
Auxiliary. Now the problem is clearing and cleaning the fractal
vestiges from the old Fractal Central auxiliary by the end of
this week, when the lease expires.
This means one more week of hasty FOTD's then a return to the
rambling discussions that used to keep things lively on the
philofractal list, which is basically dead at the present time.
Today's image is named "Bits and Pieces" because of the
scattered fragments of Mandel-stuff that fill the scene. The
parameter file renders in under four minutes, and the GIF file
will soon be available on the Web at:
and at:
The fractal weather today was cloudy and mild, with a
temperature of 62F (16.5C), which the fractal cats deemed ideal.
That's it for today. I'll return in 24 hours, plus or minus 12
hours, with another fractal. Until then, take care, and be
patient.
Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com
START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================
Bits_and_Pieces { ; time=0:03:45.47--SF5 on a P200
reset=2001 type=formula formulafile=critical.frm
formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=t
center-mag=-0.432695/0.050034/1.41512/1/112.5
params=1/-1.15/-1/1.15/-0.15/0 float=y maxiter=7500
inside=0 logmap=yes periodicity=10
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}
frm:MandelbrotMix4 {; 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,
k=real(p3)+1, l=imag(p3)+100, c=fn1(pixel):
z=k*((a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f)))+c,
|z| < l
}
END 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE==================================
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 11:56:20 -0600
From: "Paul N. Lee"
Subject: (fractint) "Fractal Art Screensaver Project" is ready.
Greetings,
I am sending out this notice after receiving an email from Doug
Harrington, explaing that his time has been very limited lately and that
he "would welcome any help" regarding posting a notice of the
availabibility of the new screensaver.
Doug mentioned that he has already "submitted the saver to a couple of
major software sites, ZDNET etc. and still have some to do....", so
hopefully word will soon spread with everybody's help.
Doug Harrington has spent a lot of time and effort on this volunteer
project that was introduced several weeks ago. He has been
communicating with 49 different artists, at different times, about
different topics, over a 4-6 week to finally resolve all issues that
could be resolved (considering the time and number of individuals
involved).
The basic information about the "Fractal Art Screensaver Project" may be
found at the following URL:
http://Fractalarts.com/ASF/FASP.html
where you can review the Artists that were involved and retrieve a copy
of this project. The file is approximately 7-MB in size, but
considering the software and number of images, this is really a great
deal of information packed into a single file.
I hope that this is only the first of many such projects, or even a
series of screensavers showcasing the fractal art of the worldwide
community.
Sincerely,
P.N.L.
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 14:32:30 -0600
From: DeBow Freed
Subject: Re: (fractint) "Fractal Art Screensaver Project" is ready.
Fellow Fractaliers-
Please pardon my asking this question which has probably been answered
elsewhere - wherever I haven't yet looked.
Nevertheless, how does the current Fractal Screensaver Project relate to the
existing allegedly Fractint-based screensaver (which I have never been able
to successfully download, run, or get help in doing either from its
Norwegian author despite repeated requests)?
Improved user/author friendliness of the existing screensaver would be a
nice change, as, no doubt, would be an entirely new effort from the ground
up.
Could someone (e.g., PNL, JM, TW) offer a few lines of overview?
Thanks.
D Freed
"Paul N. Lee" wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am sending out this notice after receiving an email from Doug
> Harrington, explaing that his time has been very limited lately and that
> he "would welcome any help" regarding posting a notice of the
> availabibility of the new screensaver.
>
> Doug mentioned that he has already "submitted the saver to a couple of
> major software sites, ZDNET etc. and still have some to do....", so
> hopefully word will soon spread with everybody's help.
>
> Doug Harrington has spent a lot of time and effort on this volunteer
> project that was introduced several weeks ago. He has been
> communicating with 49 different artists, at different times, about
> different topics, over a 4-6 week to finally resolve all issues that
> could be resolved (considering the time and number of individuals
> involved).
>
> The basic information about the "Fractal Art Screensaver Project" may be
> found at the following URL:
>
> http://Fractalarts.com/ASF/FASP.html
>
> where you can review the Artists that were involved and retrieve a copy
> of this project. The file is approximately 7-MB in size, but
> considering the software and number of images, this is really a great
> deal of information packed into a single file.
>
> I hope that this is only the first of many such projects, or even a
> series of screensavers showcasing the fractal art of the worldwide
> community.
>
> Sincerely,
> P.N.L.
>
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 15:41:50 -0600
From: "Paul N. Lee"
Subject: Re: (fractint) "Fractal Art Screensaver Project" is ready.
DeBow Freed wrote:
>
> Nevertheless, how does the current Fractal
> Screensaver Project relate to the existing
> allegedly Fractint-based screensaver.....
The FASP was a collaboration of many artists using various fractal
generators. This was done to create a Freeware product, to showcase for
the general public, the beauty and diversity of fractal images (or for
the fractal enthusiast to use on their PC). It is a standalone
screensaver program with the submitted images from 49 artists.
I believe the FractInt screensaver uses the PAR and FRM files to
generate images, but having never used Thore Berntsen's utility, I could
not give any further details. I do know that the web site no longer has
it available for download.
Sincerely,
P.N.L.
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:46:40 +0200
From: "Edward Barton"
Subject: Re: (fractint) Earthquake As Artist
I don't think that you fully understand either the amount of devotion to a
subject that monks have or the Mandelbrot set.
From the look of the sketches, I estimate that he calculated about only
10-15 iterations per pixel, at a very low resolution. This could very well
have taken the time that he spent on it, giving about 1 minute per
iteration, that means at most 10 minutes per pixel, so perhaps with a
resolution of 200x200, 400000 minutes. 277 full days.
>From: "Rupert Millard"
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>To: fractint@lists.xmission.com
>Subject: Re: (fractint) Earthquake As Artist
>Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 13:57:49 -0000
>
>Hi,
>
>Even with monastic devotion I do not believe that he could have calculated
>that image. Therefore I think that it must be a hoax.
>
>How would he have known that iterating that formula would produce something
>worth doing. If he did it at all, I think that he must have had help -
>perhaps he had pointers from superior beings.
>
>From,
>
>Rupert
>
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:23:50 -0600
From: Programmer Dude
Subject: Re: (fractint) Earthquake As Artist
Abhishek Roy wrote:
> Hoax. Featured on both slashdot and kuro5hin. Apart from the date of
> the article, notice the name of the monk's helper.
Thelonius??
I don' get it.... ;-(
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:57:01 -0500
From: "MDrozdis"
Subject: Re: (fractint) Earthquake As Artist
Thelonius Monk, Jazz Great.
Marie :)
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Subject: Re: (fractint) Earthquake As Artist
> Abhishek Roy wrote:
>
> > Hoax. Featured on both slashdot and kuro5hin. Apart from the date
of
> > the article, notice the name of the monk's helper.
>
> Thelonius??
>
> I don' get it.... ;-(
>
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