; Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 09:52:32 -0500 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 17-01-04 (Iterative Toytown [7]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20040117095446.225ff49e@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- January 17, 2004 (Rating 7) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; In yesterday's discussion I wrote about precognition. When I ; wrote it, I was undecided whether to say that I believe in ; precognition or to claim that I know it exists. I ended up ; stating that, because of personal experiences, I am convinced ; that the ability to foresee future events does exist. This is ; one step short of saying that I *know* it exists. In order to ; claim that precognition *does* exist as a proven fact, I would ; need to display the ability to do things like predicting ; winning lottery numbers at will, an ability I do not have. ; ; I would have been more accurate if I had stated that I am ; convinced that, on rare occasions, we receive hints of great ; (and not-so-great) events which have not yet happened. The ; point in question is whether these hints are actual information ; from the future, which has somehow moved backward in time and ; worked its way into our awareness, or whether we merely give ; undue attention to real events that happen by chance to resemble ; fantasies we have recently experienced. After considering my ; own experiences on the seven nights of September 4 to September ; 10, 2001, I have decided that somehow, information of what would ; happen on the morning of 9-11 did somehow enter my awareness on ; those earlier nights. I have no idea of a mechanism through ; which this might have happened. ; ; The important thing is that, because of my experience, I am ; convinced that our relation to the four-dimensional space-time ; world around us is far more intimate than the "I'm in here and ; the world is out there" relation presented by our senses. I am ; not yet ready to take seriously the pseudo-mystical phrase ; 'become one with...', but I am now convinced that the hard ; skeptics, while keeping a thread of reason in a world drowning ; in nonsense, are still missing something big. And I would not ; be surprised if fractals were somehow involved. ; ; Today's image is a scene in the fractal that results when ; Z^(-2.5) is subtracted from (1/Z) and (1/C) is added. This ; parent fractal is a double-lobed thing with X-axis symmetry, ; consisting of a central area of chaos with a zig-zag filament ; arching out to the east. Today's scene is located in the ; vicinity of a larger midget on this filament. ; ; The image has been rendered with the outside set to 'tdis'. I ; named it "Iterative Toytown" for no good reason. The name ; merely reflects the frame of mind I was in when I thought of it. ; ; I have inserted the mathtolerance entry into the parameter file ; because of the high magnitude of the image, which might cause ; the image to render at the wrong magnitude if the resolution ; were increased beyond 640x480. ; ; After careful thought, I rated the image at a 7, which is above ; FOTD average and, combined with a render time of 5 minutes, ; gives the image an overall value of 140. ; ; The value can be raised to 700 or so by eliminating the wait for ; the image to render. This can be done by letting Paul render ; the image and by then downloading it from his web site at: ; ; ; ; The Friday weather was cold here at Fractal Central, but with a ; temperature of 28F -2C and lighter winds, it was not as cold as ; recent days. The fractal cats must have agreed. They spent ; over an hour in the yard, investigating the things they had not ; checked in several days. When the day ended, they settled ; comfortably for a peaceful evening. ; ; I have only a small bit of work to finish before today will be ; totally free. What will be done with that free time however ; remains to be determined. Regardless of what happens, I'll be ; back in 24 hours with another fractal. Until next time, take ; care, and be assured that the future will come to pass. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE================================ Iterative_Toytown { ; time=0:04:59.40--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+3.093845088968933/+0.4908436478215898/\ 1.234142e+012/1/70.01/-0.0191153986490802952 params=1/-1/-1/-2.5/0/0 float=y mathtolerance=/1 maxiter=1200 inside=0 outside=tdis periodicity=10 colors=000VVPkLgxBywDssFnoHhjJcfLYbNTZPNURIQTCMV7I\ X2LU5OR7RO9UMCXJE_GGbDIeBLh8Nk5Pn3R8FsEHpJImOJkTKh\ YMebNcgO`lPYqQWMMYPQURURTYNVaKXeHZiD`mAbq7dsEetKfv\ QgwWhxaGbTIZQKWOMTMNQKPNIRJFTGDUDBWA9Y77Z45Z89ZBCZ\ FFZIIZMLZPOZTRZWUZ_XZb_ZfbZieYfcYdaYa`Y_ZYXXYVWXSU\ XQSXNRXLPXINXGMWFKWEJWEHWDGVCEVCDVBCVAAVA9U97U86U8\ 4U73U72ZA8bDDfGIkJNoLTsOYxRbxUgxWlxUixSfxQcuOarMZp\ KWmITjGRhEOeCLbAI`8GY6DV4AT38S3PR3eQ3vP6rO8oNBlMDh\ MFeLIbKKZJNWIPTIRPHUMGWJFZFE`CEb9DaBDaDC`FC`HC_JB_\ LB_NBZPAZRAYTAYV9XX9XZ9X_AVYAUWBSUBRSBPQCOOCMMCLKE\ JIEIGFHFILALPFNTLRXQT`VWcVZgV`kVboWesZgwciycjwcjtc\ jqajo_klXjiUjfUidUkaUlZUmWUnTUpQQpOLnNKlNKjNKiNKgM\ JeMJdMJbMJ`MJZLIYLIWLIULITLIXQF_UDbYBea9he7ki5nm3g\ o8`qDUrINtNGuSKpTOlURhVVcVZ_WaWXeRYiNYlJZpE_tA`w6`\ p5gi4nb3udFdeROfb8ecCdcFdcJccMbdPbdTadWadZ`eb_ee_e\ iZelYfoYfsXfvXfyLkNPeOS_P } 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================================== ;