; Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 12:24:23 -0400 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 07-09-03 (A No-Repeat Fractal [4]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20030907122455.29bfdb30@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- September 07, 2003 (Rating 4) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; I must be developing amnesia. When I checked my e-mail box this ; morning I found about a dozen letters from different people ; telling me that I was great last night but could still use some ; improvement. Then there were four more people who had seen my ; profile online and wanted to meet me. There were four who had ; met me in a chat room. I had three letters that gave the ; information I had requested. And several letters simply said ; something like 'hey' or 'hi' or 'how're ya', or 'Jane told me ; you are too small', or the most mysterious of all -- 'dgins hebs ; oihndy fgotushn eod'. Finally, I wonder why the billing depart- ; ment at Mindspring wanted me to re-submit my credit card number ; to confirm that the number is correct. The number has been ; working as it should for 7 years. ; ; What has me worried is that I have no memory of being with ; twelve different people in one night, or of having my profile ; online. I have totally forgotten visiting any chat rooms, and I ; don't remember requesting any information. I have no memory at ; all of those many people who sent me greetings. I also wonder ; who this Jane is who thinks I am too small. My height is just ; about average. As for that message in a foreign language -- it ; might be important, but I can't read it. Finally, I wonder why ; my latest credit card statement shows a balance of $8,758.63, ; when last month it was $176.53 and I paid that in full and have ; charged nothing since then. ; ; (The first paragraph is true; the second is frivolous. Every ; few weeks I need a short rant about spam...) ; ; ...especially when the FOTD doesn't turn out too well. For ; today's image I tried the same trick that worked so well in ; yesterday's image. But it didn't work at all in today's image. ; I named the image A No-Repeat Fractal" because it's apparently ; impossible to repeat the same trick and get an equally fine ; result. I rated the image at a meager 4. ; ; The image was generated with the MandelbrotMix3a formula, which ; does nothing but permit 4 different exponents of Z to be ; combined in different portions, and permits the initial value of ; Z to be adjusted to a critical value of the formula. In today's ; case, zero is a critical value, so the (p5) parameter remains at ; zero. ; ; The biggest drawback is the time required to render the image -- ; over one hour on my machine. I strongly recommend giving Paul ; and Scott time to generate the image and post it to their web ; sites before going there to download the image. ; ; Paul's site is found at: ; ; ; ; Scott's is at: ; ; ; ; Near-perfct weather prevailed once again Saturday here at ; Fractal Central. The bright sun, dry grass and temperature of ; 79F 26C produced near-perfect cats. They had such a pleasant ; day in the yard that by the time they came in, they wanted to do ; nothing but grab a few bites of food and fall asleep. If they ; were still kittens, I would say they are at their best behavior ; when they are sleeping, but now that they are fully mature, they ; sleep far too much for sleep to be considered their best ; behavior. ; ; Today looks to be a repeat of yesterday, so I expect we'll do it ; all again. The duo is already romping in the yard. I'll be ; back in 24 hours with a new and fresh fractal, not another ; inferior imitation. Until then, take care, and be peaceful. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE================================ A_NoRepeat_Fractal { ; time=1:08:11.40--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix3a function=ident passes=1 center-mag=+0.92952219950070970/+0.209587282531303\ 70/1.545435e+009 params=-2/2/1/3/0.5/4/0.25/5/0/0 float=y maxiter=1200 inside=fmod proximity=0.15 outside=tdis logmap=yes periodicity=10 colors=000Zah_eg_if`meaqdatdbpbcmadi`efZfbYg_XhXWi\ TUjQTkMSlJQmFPnCOn9NoFQpLTqQVrWYs`_q_`pZaoYbnXcmWd\ lVekUfjTfiSghRhgQifPjeOkdNlcMmbLmYJ`THOPFCXGHcGMjH\ RqHWxH`ySUzbNzmHvkGsjGphGmgGjeGgdGccG`aGY`GVZGSYGP\ XGRUETSDVPBXNAZK8`I7aF5bD4cA2d81e60e74e78f8Bg8Fi9J\ i9MkAQlAUmBXnB`pCdqCgUPpUPpUPp6ay9bwBcvEduGdtJerLf\ qOfpQgoThmVhlYik_jjajiajhajhcljenkfplhrmjtngXyhZti\ `pjbljcgkeclg_lhWmjRnlNonJooEpqAqs6qt2fkEWbQLUaBLl\ HMnMMoRMpWMr`MsfNtkNvpNwuNxzNy_mrRYnIJj94gCBiEHkGN\ mJToLZqNdrGei9e`2eS4dR5cR6bR7aR8aQ9`QA_QBZQCZQASR8\ LR7FR58R42R57S5BT5GU6KV6PW6TX7XY7aZ7e_8j`8na8rbEse\ JthOujUumZvocwrhwtetqbqo`nlYkjVigTfeQcbN``LYYIWWFT\ TDQRANO7KM5IKirIirLirN8EQ9DSACVBAXC9_D8aE7dF6fJEdM\ LcQSaTZ`XeZ_lYcsWfzVawTYtSUqQQnPMkNIhMEeKAbJBaKBaK\ BaKBaLBaLBaLBaLCaMCaMCaMCaNCaNCaNCaNEcTFdYHebIggKh\ lLiqMjvNciOXXWNlXRkYVjYYi } frm:MandelbrotMix3a {; Jim Muth z=real(p5), c=fn1(pixel), a=real(p1), b=imag(p1), d=real(p2), f=imag(p2), g=real(p3), h=imag(p3), j=real(p4), k=imag(p4), l=imag(p5)+100: z=(a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f))+(g*(z^h))+(j*(z^k))+c, |z| <=l } ; END PARAMETER FILE================================== ;