; Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 10:26:35 -0500 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 04-02-03 (Quagmire [3]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20030204102939.2807d206@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; FOTD -- February 04, 2003 (Rating 3) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; There's nothing like a comical junk e-mail to take some of the ; depression out of an otherwise bad day. Things were already ; going bad enough, then the fractal for the day turned out to be ; a loser that I could rate no better than a 3. And then, to ; make things even worse, I checked my e-mail box and found the ; usual jumble of junk. ; ; I deleted the junk at once without downloading it, all but one ; letter that is. That letter had a subject line telling me that ; I am something special. OK, I told myself, I'll take a quick ; look at this one. As expected, the letter was a typical piece ; of junk directing me to an x-rated web site. The text began by ; telling me that the sender had seen my profile and that I was ; exactly the type of person she had been searching for all her ; life. The sender then described a gorgeous young woman eager to ; meet me. ; ; The letter might have been effective had it not been for the ; long list of carbon-copy addresses to which the same letter had ; also been sent, which somehow had inadvertently been included at ; the start of the text. Disappointed, I deleted the final piece ; of junk. ; ; This comical disappointment eased my disappointment over finding ; nothing better that a miserable 3-rated image for today's FOTD. ; I did all the right things, but it seemed as though fate itself ; was working against me. Regardless of what I tried, the images ; were as junky as an unwanted e-mail. ; ; I finally settled on an evaporated scene in the fractal that ; results when three parts of Z^(-14.56) are subtracted from 7 ; negative parts of Z^(-1.456) and 1/C is added instead of plain C. ; ; I named the image "Quagmire", mostly because that's how I felt. ; I rated it at a lowly 3 because that's all it is worth. A ; render time of 1 minute would be too much to ask for today's ; image. The actual 12-minute render time is verging on the ; ridiculous. Luckily, the image, for what it is worth, is ; available on the web at: ; ; ; ; and at: ; ; ; ; Bland weather once again prevailed here at Fractal Central on ; Monday, with some sun, some clouds, a bit of a breeze and a ; temperature of 45F 7C. Taking advantage of the blandness, the ; dynamic cats were as lively as they have been in some time as ; they romped in the yard for several hours. Of course, at their ; age of 12 years, their romping is not what it used to be, but ; Tippy the tabby still managed to climb two meters up a holly ; tree. Today is starting rainy. It remains to be seen how the ; dynamic ones will cope with the latest inconvenience. ; ; Being well in excess of 12 years, my tree-climbing days ended ; long ago. My romping is also suffering. But the fractals keep ; coming. Until next FOTD, take care, and does space end where ; time begins? ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE================================ Quagmire { ; time=0:12:16.28--SF5 on a p200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+0.89508650616089440/-0.815728148775334\ 10/6369148/1/-140/-4.15605366371751828e-008 params=-7/-1.456/-3/-14.56/0/1e+100 float=y maxiter=900 inside=bof61 periodicity=10 colors=0007tZ6t`5ua4ub4vd3ve2wf2wg5ug7tg9sgBrgDpgF\ ogHngJmgMkgOjgQigShgUfgWegYdg`bi_ch_cgZdfZdeYedYec\ XebXfaWf`Wg_VgZVhYVhXUhWUiVTiUTjTSjSSkRRkQRkPQlOQl\ NQmMPmLPnKOnJOnINoHNoGMpFMpELqDLqCLqBPoGSmLWkPZiUb\ hZefbidglbloapk`kk_liZjgZheYfcXeaWc_WaYV_WUYUTWTTV\ RSTPRRNQPLQNJPLHOKFNIDNGBME9LC7KA6K98MB9NCBPECQFDR\ GFTIGUJHWKJXMKYNL_ON`QObRPcSRdUSfVTgWViYWjZZlZXk_V\ k`TkaRjaQjbOjcMidKidIieHhfFhgDhgBgh9gi7fh8gi9gi9gi\ AgiAhiBhiBhiChiDiiDiiEiiEiiFjiFjiGjiHjiHkiIkiIkjJk\ jJljKljLljLljMmjMmjNmjNmjOnjPnjPnjQnjQojRojRojSojS\ ojTicTdXT_QTVJUPBTQCSQDSQERQFRRGQRGQRHPRIPSJOSKOSL\ NSLNSMMTNMTOLTPLTQKUQKURJUSIUTIUUHVUHVVGVWGVXFWYFW\ ZEWZEW_DW`DXaCXbCXcBXcBYdAYeAYf9Yg9Yg9Zg8`h7ai7ci6\ dj5fk5gk4il3jm3lm2mn1oo1po6mpAkpEiqJfqNdrRbrV`rY_q\ __qa_pd_pf_ph_oj_om_oo_nq_ns_noaklbhhceeebbf_ZgXWh\ VTjSPkPMlMAqT9rU9rW8sX7sY } 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================================== ; ;