; Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:13:15 -0400 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 30-07-02 (Aquatic Life [8]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20020730111354.2abfca32@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; FOTD -- July 30, 2002 (Rating 8) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; Today's fractal reminds me of another real-world object. In ; this case, I see the graceful swaying of seaweed, a few meters ; under the surface near some tropical shore. The scene is also ; filled with schools of small, colorful tropical fish, though ; these are more difficult to pick out. ; ; With all this underwater activity in mind, I named the image ; "Aquatic Life". Then I stepped back to evaluate the result. ; After much mental wrestling, I rated the image a much-above- ; average 8. ; ; The formula of the aquatic scene is Z^(-1.1)+Z^(-11)+(1/C), ; a simple expression that does more than it should. But as I ; stated recently, it is not the formula that works the magic; it ; is the 280 iterations. ; ; The parent fractal of today's scene appears as a large open bay ; with many buds and valleys around its perimeter. Today's scene ; is located in the center of a blunt valley on the south shore of ; the main bay. The aquatic effect was achieved by rendering the ; scene with the outside set to the option, followed by ; careful coloring. ; ; The render time of just over 1 minute makes running the attached ; parameter file the quickest way of seeing the seaweed. But ; downloading the completed GIF image from Paul's web site at: ; ; ; ; or from Scott's site at: ; ; ; ; might be a lot more fun. ; ; The weather Monday here at the (IMO) center of the fractal world ; was hot, hot, hot. A breeze and slightly lower humidity made it ; feel less oppressive than it otherwise might have been, but 100F ; 38C is still hot -- there's no escaping it. The heat was so ; severe that it buckled the rails of a local rail line, causing ; a train to derail. ; ; The dynamic fractal cats avoided the excessive heat by passing ; the day in the air-cooled indoors, though they did check several ; times just to be sure it really was that hot outside. ; ; Today is Tuesday, and it's another scorcher -- a perfect excuse ; for me to stay indoors and get a little ahead on the upcoming ; convention program that needs to be finished within a week. ; Until next time, which will come in 3 days on August 2, take ; care, and why are tropical shores with all their humidity and ; heat considered paradise on earth?. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE================================ Aquatic_Life { ; time=0:01:27.77--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+0.856206964880088/-1.054799381804275/2\ 124528/1/-160/-3.37734701108538538e-008 params=1/-1.1/1/-11/0/525 float=y maxiter=280 inside=0 outside=tdis periodicity=10 colors=000z01z03y04u04o06j06f07`07X09S09M0AI0AD0C7\ 0C30D00D13I47M7CQAGTDLYGPaJTfLYiOamQfrTjvXoy_szaxz\ czzUzzKzz7zz6vz4lz3`z1Qv0Gs6FuCDvIDxOCyTAzYAz`CzcF\ zfGziIzlLzoMzrOzuQzxSzyTzxVzxXvxYrvYmv_iv`dv``uaXu\ cSudOsdJsfFsgAsg6mc9g`CcYFYVGTSJOOMJLPDIQ9FT3CX09Y\ 6C_DD_LF_SG_TI_TPcPXgLaiGikCmaJqSPu0Mz6LuAJoGGjLFd\ QD_VAT`9Pd7Jj4Do37u13y00z00z00z10z60zC0xG0sM1oQ4iX\ 7d`A_fDVjGQpJLuMGzPAzUUzc1zmYzuVzzSzzQzzOzyMzxJzvI\ zuFzsDzrAzp9zo6zm4yl1yj0xl3vl6vl9umCumFsmGroJroMpo\ PppSopVopXmrUlsUluUjuUjvUitUimUmcUqUPvCdz0sv4osCjo\ JflQaiYYddValQ_sMVzISzDPzATzMXsX`jfc`pgQzjIzgMzdPz\ cSx`Vs__oXajVdfSgaQjYYXcdIgl4lgAicGg_MfVSdQYaMc`Ii\ _DoY9uV4zT0zS0zQ0zV0z_0za0yf0vj0sm0pr0mv0jy0gz0dz0\ az0_z0Yz0Vz0Tz0Qz0Pz0Mz0Ly0JxIiTJfOJdILcDLa7M`1M_0\ OY0OX0ld3sXJzQYy6ls0yo0xl0xi0xf0va0v_3vX6uT9uPCuMF\ sJIsGLsCi09i07i0`_7zPTz9F } 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 PARAMETER FILE================================== ; ;