; Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 11:02:50 -0400 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 27-07-03 (Nothing in Sight [5]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20030727110259.29c7cf4c@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- July 27, 2003 (Rating 5) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; Today's fractal is a different kind of thing. It is so ; different in fact that I don't know what to call it. It is like ; nothing I have seen before, and this is why I named it "Nothing ; in Sight". I realize that this could raise the philosophical ; puzzle of whether nothing is actually something, but this is not ; really a puzzle at all. When a fish sees a gas bubble rising to ; the surface, it does not see an absence of water, it sees a real ; object that, assuming fish understand gravity, defies gravity. ; For that fish, nothing has literally become something. And is ; not a positron nothing more than the lack of a negative charge? ; ; In today's fractal, we are once again in the vicinity of the ; blazing rectangle of the past two FOTD's. But we have rotated a ; full 90 degrees from the Julia direction and are viewing the ; scene in the Rectangular direction, where imag(z) and imag(c) ; are displayed on the screen. ; ; The image has been rotated and unrotated, stretched and ; unstretched, skewed and unskewed so far that I have lost track ; of its undistorted appearance. Actually, the undistorted image ; is the distorted view, and the stretching, etc. is necessary to ; undistort it. The appearance of X-axis symmetry is illusory. ; A close inspection will reveal subtle differences. ; ; The image is more a curiosity than a work of art, and as such ; can be rated no higher than a rating of an average 5. (With all ; the average ratings I give my images, I would make a very poor ; salesperson.) ; ; The render time of 5 minutes is within reason. Downloading the ; completed image from: ; ; ; ; or from: ; ; ; ; is also quite reasonable. ; ; A hot day Saturday brought out the laziness in the fractal cats. ; Of course, it takes very little to bring out laziness in old ; cats. When the temperature hit 90F 32C, they hit their beds, ; and stayed there most of the afternoon. They didn't get active ; until the sun was gone from the yard, when they took a short ; stroll to the holly thicket. Today is supposed to be even ; hotter, though to me it seems to be starting cooler. It remains ; to be seen how the duo will adjust. ; ; I'm going to adjust by doing as little as possible, except in ; the world of fractals that is. Until next FOTD, take care, and ; I do not believe that physical aliens from space are visiting ; earth, but why then does it concern me so much when I see others ; who do believe we are being visited? ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE================================ Nothing_in_Sight { ; time=0:05:28.89--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=julibrot.frm formulaname=SliceJB-new passes=1 center-mag=-0.000\ 01046291457683/+0.02511627776549527/1353.851/0.065\ 63/89.9392475138482297/0.0607524861518090667 params=0.5/0.5/0/0.5/2.003/0/-1.7435/0/0.00019/0.0\ 7388 float=y maxiter=1000 inside=bof61 logmap=51 periodicity=10 colors=000GADIAFJAHKAJMALNANPAPQARSBTTBVUBXWBZXC`Z\ Cb_Cd`CfbChcDjeDlfDngDpiErjEtlEvmExnEzoGzpIzpKzqMz\ qOzrQzrSzsUzsWztYzt_wubtueqvhnvklwnjwqhytgywhzwhzw\ hzmczjfzgizdczaYzZTzWNzTHzQCyN6xK1wJ5uI9sHDqGHoFLm\ FOkESiDWgC_eBccBfaAj_9nY8rW7vU7yS9wQAuOBsMCqKDoKEm\ MFkOGjQHhSIfTJdVKbXL`ZMZ`NYbOWcPUeQSgRQiSOkTMlULhS\ MdQM`OMXMMTKMPIMLGMHEMDCM9AM59MF8MO7MX6Me6Mc7La8L`\ 9KZAKXBKWCJUDJTEJRFIPGIOIHMKHKMHJOGHQGGSGEUFCWFBYE\ 9_E7aE6cD4eD3gD6iE8kFBmGDnHGnIImJLlKNkLPjMSiNUhOXg\ PZfQaeRcdSecTd`SdYRdWQdTPcQOcONcLMcILcGKbHNaIP`JSZ\ KVYLXXM_WMaUNdTOgSPiRQlPRoOSqNTtLSwMTvMTvMTvMTvNTv\ NTvNTvNTvNUvOUvOUvOUvOUvPUvPUvPUvPVuRVuQVuUVuQVuXV\ uRVu_VuRWubWuRWueWuSWuhWuSWukYvSXunWuTVtqVtUUttTsU\ SswSsVRrzQrWPrzPqXOqzOqYQpzSpZUozWo_Yoz_n_anzcn`em\ zgmaimzklbmlzopaqnzslcukzwiezhzzfgzdzzcizazz`kzZzz\ YlzWzzUnzTzzRpzQzzODzfzza } frm:SliceJB-new {; by John R. H. Goering, July 1999 pix=pixel, u=real(pix), v=imag(pix), a=pi*real(p1), b=pi*imag(p1), g=pi*real(p2), d=pi*imag(p2), ca=cos(a), cb=cos(b), sb=sin(b), cg=cos(g), sg=sin(g), cd=cos(d), sd=sin(d), p=u*cg*cd-v*(ca*sb*sg*cd+ca*cb*sd), q=u*cg*sd+v*(ca*cb*cd-ca*sb*sg*sd), r=u*sg+v*ca*sb*cg, s=v*sin(a), c=p+flip(q)+(p4), z=r+flip(s)+(p5): z=z^(p3)+c |z|<=9 } ; END PARAMETER FILE================================== ;