; Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:18:53 -0500 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 12-11-04 (Infinite Passage [7]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20041112102016.29873ac6@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- November 12, 2004 (Rating 7) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; Today's fractal takes us to the mandphoenix formula, a formula ; that gave me quite a battle when I started working with it. The ; formula has three variations, which are chosen by setting the ; degree (the third parameter) to 0, 2, or -3. For today's image ; I set the degree to -3. ; ; I worked with the formula almost 1/2 hour, finding nothing but ; scenes that reminded me of uninteresting odd slices of the ; Julibrot. I was almost ready to give up and accept one of those ; inferior images, when I stumbled upon the area of order that ; appears in today's picture. ; ; Suspecting that I could make something of the scene, I began ; juggling the colors. Not too much happened. Then I tried the ; different inside fill options, and found that the 'fmod' fill ; works quite well. I left the outside at the default 'iter', and ; began rotating and changing the colors again. A few minutes ; later, today's image appeared, quite by accident. Only a small ; amount of color tweaking was needed to finish the job. ; ; The image reminds me of a long straight passage, with exotic ; light-poles illuminating the way. It might be the tunnel to the ; next world that is sometimes reported by those near death. Or ; it could be nothing more than a backdrop for a scene in some ; sci-fi film that has not yet been made. Whatever it is, the ; passage goes a very long way, which is the reason for the name ; "Infinite Passage". Unfortunately, the passage remains ; unchanged as it stretches to infinity. This makes for a rather ; boring trip, so I satisfied myself with a view down the passage ; from the place where it starts. ; ; The rating of a 7 might be a bit liberal, but I did put more ; than average time into it, and it has that quality that brings a ; second glance. (BTW, this is an all-important thing to design ; into advertisements, so I am constantly seeking it.) The render ; time of just under 2 minutes results in an overall worth of 374. ; ; Those who prefer not to render may see the infinite passage by ; downloading the completed GIF file from the FOTD web site at: ; ; ; ; The passage might be infinite, but the download time will not. ; ; Warm sun and a temperature of 61F 16C on Thursday here at ; Fractal Central made the cats happy and me also . . . . but ; today is cold and rainy. I fear the duo will have a rough day. ; ; My day will be fair enough if I find a worthy fractal for ; tomorrow's FOTD. If not, then my day will be un-fair. Check ; tomorrow to see how things go. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Infinite_Passage { ; time=0:01:52.32--SF5 on a P200 reset=2003 type=mandphoenix passes=1 float=y center-mag=-0.80000296758685600/+0.800015599164927\ 40/326.9362/1/180 params=0.8/-0.8/-3 maxiter=1200 bailout=9 inside=fmod logmap=9 periodicity=10 colors=000LFSK8QK1OM3MO5LQ7KR8JTAIVCHWDGQFFSHEUIDW\ KCZMBaNAdP9gR8jS7lU6nW5oX4rUAtRGwOMyMRvKQsJQqHQnGQ\ lEQiDQgBQdAQb9QcCPcEOdGNdJMeLLeNKeQKfSJfUIgXHgZGh`\ FhcFheEigDijCjlBjnAjpAhn9fm9el8cj8ai8`h7Zg7Ye6Wd6U\ c6Tb5R`5Q_4OZ4MY4LW3JV3IU2GT2ER2DQ1BP1AO19M88LE7JK\ 6IQ5GW4Fa3Dg2Cm1As09y1Dx1Hw2Kw2Ov2Rv3Vu3Yu3at4es4h\ s4lr5or5sq5vq8orAhrCarEWrGPrIIrKCrMJiOP`QVTSaKUgBW\ m3ZjAahHdeOfcVi`alZhnXolfZkpJilNghQfdTd`XbX_aTb_Pf\ YLiXHlVDpT9sS5vU7tW9sXBrZCq_EpaGobHndJmeLkgNjhOijQ\ hkSgmTfnVepXdqYcnbXkgRhmKmsEty8wyAwzCwzUwyZwycwyhw\ ymwxrwxvwxzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzXXoYYnYYmZYmZZl\ _Zk__j`_i`_iZZkXYmVXnTWpSVqQUsOTtMSvKRxJQyHPzFOzDN\ zCMzFLzHLzJLzLLzOLzQKzSKzUKzXKzZKz`JybJyeJxgJxiJwk\ JwdHrZFnSDiMBeGAaND_TFYZIWdKUjNSpPQvSOzUNwWMsYMo_L\ j`LfbKbdKZfJUgJQiIMkIIlIHhGGdEF`CEXADU9LVKTVV`VefZ\ ckaapd`ugZzjYxiWviUMTWLMU } ; END PARAMETER FILE========================================= ; ;