; Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:19:41 -0400 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 17-09-03 (A Sparkling Midget [6]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20030917102020.0d1fed4a@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- September 17, 2003 (Rating 6) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; This morning at Fractal Central features a plethora of junk ; e-mail and media hype. One of the junk e-mails actually had a ; subject line that got me to open it. The line was 'you left ; your umbrella'. Since I recently lost an umbrella, I thought ; the letter was from some good samaritan who had found it and ; wanted to return it. I never stopped to wonder how the sender ; had known not only the person who had left the 4-dollar ; umbrella, but his e-mail address as well. When I opened the ; e-mail, I saw the usual gibberish that results when an html ; document is opened in text mode. I have yet to fathom what a ; lost umbrella has to do with selling a low-interest loan. ; ; Then there is the current local weather forecast, which has a ; hurricane watch in effect for Thursday and calls for winds of ; 35-40mph. Hurricane winds start at 75mph. I could see a storm ; warning, but a hurricane watch . . .? I guess a hurricane ; situation is remotely possible. The local TV outlets have of ; course gone into overdrive. By Friday morning, when the storm ; has just passed its mini-peak, they will probably be frantically ; searching for a fallen tree and showing rain water flowing down ; the gutters. ; ; So much for the local nonsense. Today's image was created by ; combining decreasing portions of Z^2, Z^3, Z^4 and Z^5. The ; resulting Julibrot figure was then sliced at a minor critical ; point, which drew a tiny Mandelbrot set located well off to the ; west of the default screen. This M-set is rotated 180 degrees ; and is surrounded by tiny dots, each of which contains a ; universe of M-sets. ; ; These M-sets are unusual in that they have basically no patterns ; around them, but are surrounded instead by flat iteration bands ; containing sparse clouds of star-like points. I have named ; today's image "A Sparkling Midget" because it is surrounded by ; little other than widely scattered stars. ; ; The coloring was done using the usual equal-iteration bands ; method. The other outside coloring options give more detail to ; the image. In fact, some of them give too much detail, but I ; wanted to show the basic star-like blandness of today's scene, ; so I chose the standard outside=iter option. ; ; The image rates a 6, which is not bad for such a bland picture. ; It renders in 3 minutes, which is even better. Best of all, it ; downloads in one minute or so from . . . ; ; ; ; or from: ; ; ; ; The weather remained perfect throughout the day here at Fractal ; Central on Tuesday. Not a single cloud was seen all day, the ; wind was light, and the temperature reached 77F 25C. The ; dynamic fractal cats made the most of the perfection by spending ; several hours in the yard. At the end of the day, no tuna was ; needed. ; ; Today is starting perfect once again, but that hurricane is ; still lurking in the vicinity. Stay tuned to see what develops ; in the next few days. Until tomorrow's FOTD, take care, and try ; to be at ease when nature misbehaves. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE================================ A_Sparkling_Midget { ; time=0:03:19.93--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix3a function=ident passes=1 center-mag=-16.27242179554596000/-0.06293582629549\ 968/4.17399e+010/1/25/-0.000463342159198340542 params=1/2/-0.67/3/0.33/4/0.17/5/-2.73312824662175\ /0 float=y maxiter=255 inside=0 periodicity=10 colors=000clsaot`sn_viF5oH4iJ3cL2YN1SO0MS8RWFV_MZb\ Tbf`gjgknnoqus4REAVIFYML`QQcUWgY`jafmekphdijYckRYl\ LSmEMn7Go1Ap5Dj96MCCPGJPKMONOMRRMVUPYYSa`VedYki`rp\ czzemsfllfkggjagicghWhg_hf0hvJRfw0Cq6GkBKjGOiLShQW\ gVZf_U6AW4SY3hdJTzYEyXGeWIbVJ`ULYTMVSOTRPTKRTDTT6V\ T0Wa4ci7kqAroDswGzmJulMugWvcdvZmvVvvNloGbi9Tc2JYUM\ KtP7jV8``8Rf9Hl97r9JlIVfRf`_qWgWUoBSwARm9Qd8PW7ON6\ NE6N5CRDIVLOYTM`RLbPKdNJfLIhJHjHGlFFnEOcJWTNcISk8W\ fIKbS9SXDI`HKaMLaRNaWOa`_U`kN`wG`uKcsNeqQgoTimWkkZ\ mjaoacgTe`KgTBiM2kF5lJ7lN9mRBmVDnZFnbIm`Ll_OkZRjXU\ iWXhVZhUWdRUaPRZMPWKMSIKPFHMDFJBKIGPILTIPYIUbIZfIb\ cGZ`FWYDSVCPUEVTF`SGfRHkZKYfNKnQ7jUCgXHc_M`cRXfWUi\ `RldtNZsQ`rSbqUcpWeoYfL0rJ9sIItGRuF_uDhvCqwBywGvuK\ ssOpqSmoWjm_gkcdieefgfdigakh_lhY`WOPJFTOMXTT_YZcbe\ ggljlrimqinqhnphopgpogpoemidkcbhYafT_cNZaHXZBWX6WW\ 7WW7WW7WW8WW8WW8WW9WW9WW9 } 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================================== ;