;     Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 10:49:28 -0400
;     From: Jim Muth <jamth@mindspring.com>
;  Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 14-10-02 (What is it? [6])
;       Id: <1.5.4.16.20021014105059.2a0fba36@pop.mindspring.com>
; ---------
; FOTD -- October 14, 2002 (Rating 6)
; 
; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:
; 
; Today's image has been named "What is it?".
; 
; That is a question.
; 
; The answer is that today's image is a picture of the midget I 
; spoke of yesterday, which lies just beyond the southeast border 
; of yesterday's "Coronal Globules" image.  Curiously enough, 
; since I have rotated the view 180 degrees, yesterday's scene now 
; lies not northwest but southeast of today's.
; 
; The midget in today's image is one of the more chaotic I have 
; come upon in my travels through the world of fractals.  It is 
; quite difficult to find any definite theme that runs throughout 
; the scene.  Some areas consist of fractal material so finely 
; ground that it resembles sand.  Other areas consist of 
; relatively simple spirals.  But the coloring shows that a broad 
; overall pattern does exist around the midget, and that this 
; broad pattern consists of the usual 2,4,8... series of elements.
; 
; One of the powers of Z in the generating formula is -0.05, which 
; defines a value so close to unity that it might be expected to 
; have little effect on the finished fractal.  But the maxiter of 
; today's image is 6000, which gives plenty of iterations in which 
; that tiny departure from unity can build up to a significant 
; change in the overall appearance of the image.
; 
; Today's image might rate closer to a 5 than a 6.  The image is a 
; bit too disorganized to be above average, and it also lacks a 
; theme.  But when rating it, I decided to do myself a favor.  I'm 
; harsh enough on my fractals as it is.
; 
; The attached parameter file requires 38 minutes of rendering 
; time on my aging P200 machine.  I wonder if it would render in 
; 1/10th the time on a state-of-the-art P4-2000mhz machine.
; 
; Somehow I doubt it.
; 
; Those with little to do might run the parameter file, but most 
; will choose to download the completed image from Paul's web site 
; at:
; 
;           <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html>
; 
; or from Scott's site:
; 
;           <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html>
; 
; The fractal weather Sunday continued cloudy, with a temperature 
; of 66F 19C, but it did not rain and the grass was dry, and as a 
; result, the dynamic cats had enough quality time in the yard to 
; keep them happy.
; 
; I now find the work accumulating -- a clear signal to get busy.  
; So until tomorrow, take care, and the search for the last 
; fractal could be a long one.
; 
; 
; Jim Muth
; jamth@mindspring.com
; jimmuth@aol.com
; 
; 
; START PARAMETER FILE================================

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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 PARAMETER FILE==================================
; 
;