; Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 09:46:50 -0500 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 01-02-03 (The Cave Entrance [8]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20030201094951.0d672432@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; FOTD -- February 01, 2003 (Rating 8) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; I tried not to see the entrance of a cave in today's image, it ; appeared so trite, but there it is, clear as can be, a view from ; inside a cave, looking out toward an unearthly scene and the ; alien blue sky beyond. There are even puddles of liquid ; nitrogen on the cave floor, reflecting bits of the scene beyond. ; With all this evidence, I had no choice but to name the image ; "The Cave Entrance". I rated the image at an 8 because of its ; unusually strong resemblance to an actual 3-D scene. The colors ; are a bit surreal, but this doesn't detract from the impression ; of a real scene. ; ; The puddles of nitrogen on the cave floor are actually small, ; foreshortened spiral areas where the iteration count of the ; surface features becomes greater than the count of the features ; beneath, and the normally hidden features show through. These ; areas resemble reflections because the features showing through ; are extensions of the features directly above. ; ; To create today's image, I once again used the C4G almost- ; triternion formula. While searching the East Valley area of a ; square Mandeloid, I noticed today's curious feature in the ; pattern around a sub-midget. A zoom-in, a bit of stretching, a ; bit of rotation and a bit of skewing produced today's image. ; ; Perhaps the most unusual aspect of the image is the criss- ; crossing elements that appear to go on indefinitely, almost ; invisibly, in the distant blue of the sky. When enlarged and ; re-colored, this distant sky area changes and becomes another ; cave entrance. We literally have a cave whose entrance goes on ; forever. ; ; Luckily, the parameter file runs in far less time than forever. ; In fact, even on my worn-out machine with the balky fan it runs ; in 8 minutes, and draws an image well worth the short wait. And ; even that short wait can be avoided if the completed GIF file of ; the image is downloaded from: ; ; ; ; or from: ; ; ; ; Friday remained cold, damp and dreary all day, with the tempera- ; ture hovering just above freezing and occasional drizzle. The ; cats remained gloomy all day, and needed a treat of tuna in the ; evening to make them fit to live around. Today looks like ; another repeat. I have no idea how the duo will take three ; indoor days in a row. ; ; With most of the work caught up and not much else to do, I'm ; going to take today as easy as possible. I'll probably spend a ; good part of the day somewhere in Fractal Land, searching for ; tomorrow's FOTD. Until then, take care, and prepare for the ; imminent release of the long-awaited FOTD CD, which will contain ; every FOTD image from April 1997 through December 2002, plus ; every FOTD discussion and a lot of spurious blather. It will ; also contain a number of my earlier fractal images, some of them ; created (blasphemy) by programs other than Fractint. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE================================ The_Cave_Entrance { ; time=0:08:07.30--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=c4gsave.frm formulaname=C4G passes=1 center-mag=-1.74974156125\ 1203/+0.00000002376090472/1.527103e+008/1/128.9/1\ 7.7763268937502694 params=-0.72/-0.53 float=y maxiter=1600 inside=0 logmap=246 periodicity=10 colors=000UJXTJZSJ`QKaPKcNKbMKaKL`JL_ILZGMYFMXDMWC\ NVANU9NTANSBLRCKQDJPEIOFHOGHOHIOIJOJJOKKOLLOMLONNQ\ NPSMRTMTVLVXLXYLY_K_aKabJcdJeeIggIhiIjjHllHnnGpoGr\ qGsrJpsLmtNkuQhuSevUcwW`xZYx`WybTzdRzkYurcpcUkukhc\ Uemobiq_esXauUYwSZrQ_mO_iM`dKa_JaWHbRFLMDNICLJBKJA\ KJAMJAOJAQKARKASLATMAUMAVNAWOAXOAYPAZPA_RA`TAaVCaW\ DbYFc_Gc`IdbJedLeeMfgNgiPgjQhlSinTioVjqWksYktZlv`m\ xamybhwXduR`tLXrFTq9UmDVjGVgJWcMX`PXYSYUVYRYZOa_Kd\ _Hg`EjaAma7pb4sb1va4t`6s_9rZBqYDpYGoXInWLmVNlUPkUS\ jTUiSWhRZgQ`fQcePedOgcNjbMlaMn`PjYSgVVcSX`P_XMbUKe\ QHgNEjJBmG8oD6lH9iLCfOFdSHaWKZZNWbQUeS_oxZnwZnvZnu\ ZmuZmtZmsZlsZlrYlqYkqYkpYkoYjoYjnYjmYjmXfjXcgW`dWY\ aVj_ViXVOUULRUIOTEMTBJS8GS5DS2BTQRTOLTMGVOIXPKZRM`\ SNbTPdVRfWThXUjZWl_Yna_pb`rcbtedvffwggtcaq_XnWRlTM\ iPHfLBcH6aE1bG2bH3bI3cJ4cL5cM5dN6dO7dQ7eR8eS9eT9fV\ AfWBfXBgYCg_Dg`DhaEhbFhcF } frm:C4G {; p1 is (plus or minus) 1 or i x=real(pixel), y=imag(pixel)*p1 a=b=0: a1 = a^2-p1^2*b^2 b1 = 2*a*b a=a1+x, b=b1+y z = sqrt(a^2 + b^2) z < 4 } ; END PARAMETER FILE================================== ; ;