; Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 09:48:45 -0500 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 06-02-04 (Roulette Festival [7]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20040206095113.0d7f118c@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- February 06, 2004 (Rating 7) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; For some reason, when I studied today's image in search of a ; name, I thought of a roulette wheel. Then I noticed the ; carnival-like colors, and named the image "Roulette Festival". ; The scene illustrated in the image lies in the fractal that ; results when ten parts of Z^(-1.3) are combined with one part of ; Z^(-13) before (1/C) is added, and the whole thing is iterated ; at a maxiter of 256 with an escape radius of 100. ; ; This parent fractal is an oversized thing with many supernume- ; rary bays and valleys. To find today's image I ignored the many ; obvious bays and valleys, and checked a small area of chaos on ; the southwest edge of the part of the fractal that fits on the ; default screen. ; ; When I first saw the inner details of this area, I had little ; hope of finding a midget there, but, being intrepid, I pushed ; onward into the wilderness, drawn by an unknown power. The ; progress was slow at first, with one dead end after another. I ; went farther -- into a tiny sub-area of chaos. Once again ; things looked bleak. All around me were the chaotic areas that ; I knew held no hidden midgets. But one of those chaotic areas ; was different -- it was doubled in a symmetrical manner. There ; at last, at the center of symmetry, I found my quarry. The ; trophy appears as today's FOTD. ; ; The image rates a 7. Combined with the render time of just over ; one minute, its overall value comes in at a whopping 614, which ; is totally out of proportion. I really must change the way I ; calculate overall value. As it is now calculated, the render ; time has far too much importance. Perhaps I should do something ; like multiply the regular rating by the reciprocal of the square ; root of the render time. ; ; Well, that's a problem for another day. Today's problems are ; small. The image may be viewed by running the attached para- ; meter file or by visiting Paul's FOTD web site at: ; ; ; ; and downloading the finished image from there. Both methods ; require about the same amount of time. ; ; Clouds and freezing temperatures kept the fractal cats confined ; to the indoors on Thursday. Their moods showed their disappoint- ; ment, though the evening treat of tuna cheered them somewhat. ; Today is starting with freezing rain and a coating of ice. I ; assume the rain is still freezing. The outside sensor of the ; F.C. thermometer is covered in ice, and reads 32F 0C. This may ; or may not be accurate, since the reading cannot rise above ; freezing until the ice melts. With rain and ice prevailing, I ; expect further deterioration in the cats' moods. ; ; It looks like a rather slow day for me. The work is minimal and ; with the roads slippery no new work is likely to arrive. I'll ; probably spend a good part of the day in Fractal Land, wherever ; that is. The best of what I find there will appear as tomor- ; row's FOTD. When I finish my trip in Fractal Land, I might ; start thinking about things such as the nature of reality, and ; we know what happens when I do that. Until the next FOTD, take ; care, and fractals must prove something about reality, but I'm ; not sure what. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE================================ Roulette_Festival { ; time=0:01:08.54--SF5 on a P200 reset=2003 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=-0.83439334781566500/-1.203480149355678\ 00/2.550009e+008/1/142.5/5.37021542955373743e-005 params=10/-1.3/1/-13/0/0 float=y maxiter=256 inside=0 outside=tdis periodicity=10 colors=000_mza1aa4bb6edAfeBhfDjfGlhImiLojMqjPrlRtm\ SvnVxoWzoZzq_zrbzsdzsezrdxrbnqadq_Vq_LhdO_hRSjTVhR\ YfO_eLbdIdaGf_DiZAlY6mV4oT1rS0tR0vP0qT4mWFiZOeaWad\ dYflMDPPBTSBWVA_Y8dL8TLFSd4nf4qi3tl1xn1zq0zs0zo0zi\ 3tf8kbDbYIWUKRRIOOGLLEKKCNKAPK8RJ9SIA`I8dG6hG4lF3o\ F1sD0xD0zJ6tODoTLlYRfaYafbYjiSvsOqpLlmIgjFbgBYd8Ta\ 4PZ1MW0UT0WQ0cA0m30z00j3AS8L8BVBDYFD_IDaLDdODfRFhT\ FjWFmZFnaFqdGsfGtiGxlGzmGzoJxqLtrMrsOotRmvSjxTfzVd\ zYazZZz_WzaTzeSxiRvmPsoOqsMmxLjzJhzIezGbzGdzDdzBdx\ Adt8dq6dm4dj3df1db0dZ0dV0dR0dO0aT0ZY1Wb4Tf8RjBOoFL\ sIIxLFzOBzRAzT800F34LGBPTIVdPZoVdz_hzelz_nzWqzRtxM\ xtGzrBzo4zm0zj0zhDteTnbhhatedvdevbfxahx_ixYjxWlxVm\ xTnzSozPqzOrzMszLtzJvzIxzGszGozFlzFhzDdzD_zBWzBSzA\ OzAJz8Fz8Az86z4Rz1hz0xzqtxtoxxlvzftzbszYrzTqzPqzVl\ z_fxebrjYmnThsOaxJWzDRz8Pz6Pz4Pz3Oz1Oz0Oz0Rz3Sz6Tz\ AVxFWtIYrLZoO_mSajVY0WZ0Y } 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================================== ;