; Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 09:57:54 -0500 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 01-11-04 (Lambda Land [7]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20041101095909.2bc7e6ba@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- November 01, 2004 (Rating 7) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; The days when I received 3 or 4-hundred spam e-mails a day have ; been gone for a while. I have been using Earthlink's spam- ; blocker for about a year. But some of the stuff (10 to 20 per ; day) still gets through, and sometimes this trickle is good for ; a laugh. I couldn't help but laughing this morning when I saw a ; letter with a subject line that told me something I had never ; imagined. The line read: 'You can live and work in the USA'. ; When I stopped laughing, I wondered why anyone would want to ; come to a country where the politicians who run it are forever ; telling us how bad the conditions are. ; ; Luckily, today's fractal is a lot better than the state of the ; USA. It rates a 7. This combines with the render time of well ; under three minutes to give an overall worth of 259. I named ; the picture "Lambda Land". Why not? It certainly is a scene in ; the land of Lambda. ; ; The image was created by Fractint's lambda(fn||fn) formula. ; This formula is tricky. It is rather hard to get it to do ; interesting things, but as today's image shows, it has great ; potential. I had worked with it for nearly an hour, trying ; different functions and shift values, and had found nothing even ; close to being good enough for a FOTD. Then, with the functions ; set to atanh/sin, and a mostly blank screen before me, I set the ; inside fill to bof61 and actually lowered the maxiter. I fin- ; ished the image by setting the small area of 'outside' stuff to ; 'tdis'. The result is today's image with its cheerio-like rings ; and flashy colors. ; ; Almost all of the image consists of 'inside' stuff. Most of the ; other inside fills work nearly as well with this strange image ; that tries to hide its potential. The color palette could ; perhaps use a bit more green, but I enjoy reds, blues, and ; purples. The orangish highlights add just enough interest to ; raise the image to its rating of 7. ; ; Today's FOTD may be seen by running the included parameter file ; or by downloading it from the FOTD web site at: ; ; ; ; Sunday turned into the best day in several weeks here at Fractal ; Central. The warm sun and temperature of 77F 25C were just what ; the fractal cats needed to chase away the cat blues. They spent ; the entire afternoon in the yard, mostly sitting and watching, ; but leaping up to chase an occasional falling leaf. The day ; ended with the duo enjoying their evening meal. This morning is ; starting with sun and cooler temperatures -- conditions that can ; be found acceptable by dignified fractal cats. ; ; My day was not quite as good as the cats'. The trick-or-treat ; goblins were quite active around sundown, but all-in-all it was ; a satisfactory day. Today it's back to work and then back to ; fractals, the next of which will appear in 24 hours. Until ; then, take care, and don't drown in the functions. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Lambda_Land { ; time=0:02:42.14--SF5 on a P200 reset=2003 type=lambda(fn||fn) function=atanh/sin passes=1 center-mag=-3.14049/-0.00159595/0.6446387 params=1/0.1/0.55 float=y maxiter=75 bailout=900 inside=bof61 outside=tdis periodicity=10 colors=000z`iz_iz_ky_kzZlv_ltWmsPmoUolYpkbqggshmtm\ rvrwwwywvwvtutrsrpqpgpofmmbllejthgwehknbqt`mtmkwmh\ zmcziZzfUzaPzYKzUFzPAzM5zKBzKHzIM`I`SIVWH_aHcfHhlF\ mqFqvDvzDzzDzzBzzBzzBzzDzzDzwDzpDviDq`DlUDhMDaBDY2\ DS0DN0FP2HP8HPBIPHIQKKQPKQSMQVMQYIP`HNaFMeDMfBK000\ 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\ 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\ 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\ 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\ 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\ 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\ 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\ 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\ 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\ 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\ 0000000000000000000000000 } ; END PARAMETER FILE========================================= ; ;