; Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 07:14:11 -0400 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 24-09-03 (Sir Fractal Galahad [7]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20030924071455.2b3fcf4e@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- September 24, 2003 (Rating 7) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; It's been six days since the last FOTD. This does not mean ; that I am losing my enthusiasm for the FOTD. The reason for the ; delay is that we had a hurricane here at Fractal Central, and ; the resulting power failure lasted almost 6 days. This was bad ; enough, but the work, which was quite a bit behind to start, got ; much farther behind during the time I could not work on it. I ; am now so far behind that I am in danger of losing customers due ; to my inability to deliver their jobs on time. ; ; As a result, this will be the last FOTD discussion until I catch ; up my other work, a task that will take at least several weeks, ; and possibly over a month of 12 hour days. I must work these ; hours until the pile of 'work to be done', which now holds over ; one week's work, has been reduced to a manageable size. In the ; meantime, I will continue to monitor the Fractint and Philofrac- ; tal lists. When I find the time, I will inject a few brief com- ; ments. It will be up to the lurkers to keep the lists alive and ; active for the duration. ; ; As a matter of curiosity, my e-mail box held 1181 letters when I ; checked it for the first time in 6 days. Most of them were ; junk, which together took almost 2 hours to download. The most ; curious letter informed me in broken english that I had been ; identified as a money launderer, and for some strange reason, ; requested my credit card number. I replied that I always ; launder my money. I use mild detergent and luke-warm water. ; Hot water makes the colors fade. ;-) ;-) ; ; Today's quickie fractal subtracts 1.11 parts of (1/Z) from ; Z^(1.11), then adds C. The parent fractal is a distorted M-set ; rotated -90 degrees, with a curving tail extending from its East ; Valley, which in this case is on the northeast side of the main ; bay. ; ; The scene is located at the end of a broad irregularly curving ; area of chaos on the main bay side of the northwest branch of ; the Seahorse Valley of the parent M-set. I named it "Sir ; Fractal Galahad". I have no idea what Sir Galahad has to do ; with fractals -- the name simply sounds noble in a comical way. ; ; And the picture looks good, honestly earning its rating of a 7. ; The render time of 7 minutes is short enough to be reasonable. ; The download, which is available on the FOTD web sites at: ; ; ; ; and at: ; ; ; ; is even more reasonable. ; ; The fractal cats had perhaps the best time of their lives in the ; 6 days since the last FOTD was posted. As I predicted, the only ; casualties the big blow brought to Fractal Central were a 6-day ; power outage and a yard of broken tree branches. The dynamic ; cats watched from their window shelf with interest last Thursday ; night as the wind roared, trees fell, and the sky was illumina- ; ted by the blue flashes of falling power lines and the distant ; pops of blowing transformers. When the next day arrived, the ; cats were ready for a full day's romp in the yard, which, with ; nothing but clean-up to do, I was able to give them. Since ; then, the weather has been much better, the only exception being ; a heavy rain that brought more flooding to the area early Tuesday ; morning. The cats have had 5 full days in the outdoors with me ; there to watch over them, making them perhaps the two happiest ; cats in the world. ; ; But it's very disconcerting to have so much backed-up design work ; waiting to be finished. And with an additional pile of storm- ; associated stuff likely to come in, I'm not as happy as the cats. ; I guess that, like the linemen of the local electric company, ; I'll be working 12 and 14-hour days. I'll be doing it until I ; clear away enough backed-up work to resume the FOTD in a relaxed ; manner. Until next time and next FOTD, whenever that is, take ; care, and see you for certain in the relatively near but not ; immediate future. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE================================ SirFractalGalahad { ; time=0:07:35.70--SF5 on a p200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=ident passes=1 center-mag=+0.15079637605670420/-1.480224054715044\ 00/5.344319e+009/1/144.999982895458032/9.399329566\ 45073148e-006 params=1/1.11/-1.11/-1/0/0 float=y maxiter=1200 inside=0 logmap=144 periodicity=10 colors=000WNFXPBYR8ZT4_V1YX5WZ9UaDScHRfLPhPNkSLmWK\ p_IrcGugEwkDynfHjdKkcNlaPm`Sn_VoYXpX_qWarVbnVckVdg\ VddVe`VfYUfUUgRUhNUqKUnGUlDUjASd9Q_8OV7NPALKFJFKIA\ PHDUGGZFJcEMhDPmCSsCUzBXoAZf9aY8cPHNcOMZUMV_MRfMMr\ MIwMErNHmOKgONcPQ`PTXQWTRZQRaMSdJSgFTjCTmEWiFYeG_b\ HaZJcVKeSLgOMiKNkHziJrhKmgLhfMcdOZcPUbQPaRK`SFZUEY\ VDXWCWXCVYFUXHTWKTVMSUPSTRRSURRWQQZQP`POcPNeOMgOMh\ HMjGSkFXlEamDgnCloCqe6rW1rX1pX1oX1mX1lX1jY1iY1gY1f\ Y1dY1cY1bW4`U6ZS9XQBWOEUNGSLIQJLPHNNFQLDSJCUIEPFGL\ CIG9KC6KIEKFCKCAK98K66K45L77M98MC9NEBNHCOJDPMFPOGQ\ RHQTJRWKSYLS`NTbOTdPS_ORVOQROPYZOdiNjsNktNltNltNmt\ NntNntNotNotLnuKmuJluIkuHjuFivEhvDgvCfvBev9dw8cw7b\ w6bw5cw8dsBepDfmGgjJhfLicOj`QkYOlRMmLKnEIo8Gp2Jq8M\ rEPsJStPVuVYv_`webxjdziezhgzghzfjzekzdlzdjzchzcfzb\ dzbbzb`za_zaYz`Wz`Uz`Sz_Qz_Pz_Mz5Jz4Gz4Hz9IzDJzHSz\ T`zcVzhQzmSzlSzTTzPUzMVzI } 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================================== ;