; Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:16:49 -0500 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 17-11-04 (Man-of-War Jungle [6]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20041117101817.29afdac6@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- November 17, 2004 (Rating 6) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; Today's fractal was created with the 'manowar' formula, a ; formula that draws Mandelbrot-type fractals. I have no idea ; why the formula was given such a name. Maybe the writer got ; the formula to draw something that resembles a man-of-war. ; ; While working with the formula, I was struck by the fact that ; the images it draws seem to have no truly trapped points. All ; the apparent inside areas that I was able to find can be filled ; in by a sufficiently large maxiter. Sometimes, the maxiter must ; be as large as 1,000,000,000 but the end result is always an ; image with no trapped points. I did these fill-in tests at a ; very small image size however, so I could have missed a truly ; open area or two. ; ; Today's scene lies in a perturbed parent fractal. It is a very ; fine example of the type of feature I call a dry lake. These ; 'dry lakes' start out with the symmetry that indicates a midget ; lying at their center, but the lakes eventually dry up, as has ; happened at the center of today's image, which is quite symmetri- ; cal but has no midget. ; ; I named the image "Man-of-War Jungle". I gave it this name ; because it was created with the manowar formula and some of the ; elements look a bit like palm trees. Other viewers might see ; something else in the image, but I see a jungle. The rating of ; a 6 is perhaps a bit high, but I did put some extra effort into ; the coloring, and IMO this justifies the name. The render time ; of over 6 minutes results in an overall worth of 94. ; ; The man-of-war may be seen more conveniently by downloading the ; completed GIF image from the FOTD web site at: ; ; ; ; The temperature reached 65F 18C here at Fractal Central on ; Tuesday. The wind was light and the sun was bright. These are ; perfect conditions for fractal cats, who, like all other cats, ; demand comfort. The fractal ones were out from 11am until ; sunset, which is before 5pm at this time of year. They were so ; tired when they came in that they almost forgot to eat. Today ; is starting just as warm but with more clouds. The duo should ; once again be comfortable. With no huge work backup before me, ; my comfort depends only on finding a proper fractal in the next ; formula. Check here tomorrow to see my degree of comfort. ; Until then, take care, and find happiness lies in the fourth ; dimension. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Man-of-War_Jungle { ; time=0:06:23.05--SF5 on a P200 reset=2004 type=manowar center-mag=-0.005780030929\ 82347/+0.01506436629442627/270932.9/1/-2.5/6.57777\ 304846618449e-012 params=-0.04035188397285378/0.18\ 03508718197241 float=y maxiter=3500 bailout=9 inside=255 logmap=627 periodicity=10 passes=1 colors=000aQl`Rk_SjZTiYUhXVgWWfVXeUYdTZcS_aR`_QaYP\ bWOcUScRSaOS_LTYITW9TUCTSGUQFVOEWMDXK8YIAXGCWFDVFF\ UGHTGIRGKQGMPHNOHPNHRNJPMIRMHSMHTMGUMFWMFXMEYMEZLD\ `LCaLCbLBcLAcKAcJ9cI3cH9cG9cFCcEEcDHbFJYHMUJOQLRMN\ TOPWQQWSRYUS_WTaYTb_Xca_dcbeeffgigilhkmimnjooinojj\ oilohioggofdoebod`ocYobWoaTo`Ro_OnZMlZLjYKiWOfUScR\ WZP_TOcMOg2Ri3Uj4Yl5am7eo8ip9mrAqsBstCrrDppEnoElmF\ ikGgjHehHcgI`eJZcKXbKV`LSZMQYNOWHFaKJYNMVPPSSTPVWM\ XZJ_bGbeDcfCcgBdgAbfB`eC_cCYbDWaEV_ETZFRYGQWGOVHMU\ ILSIJRJFRGIQJKTMMXPO_SQbUSfXUi_WmbYpeZi`Zg`ZeVZcPZ\ aHZ_IZXJZVKZTKZSL_QM`QNaSNbUOcVPeVQfVQgWRhYSiZSiZS\ j_SleJnj8pmBqoEpmHpjKogNmdRmaPn_OoYNoXMpXKqYJqYIrZ\ HsZFsZEt_Du_Cu_BteHskNrmTqnUpkUnhVmfVkcWj`WiYWgWXf\ TXdQYcNYbLYaRZaX_ab``ha_iaah`c`_eU_gMZiFYk7Xm0Xp2c\ r4it5ot8ptBqtDqtGrtIstLstNttQutSutVvtXwt_wtaxtdytf\ yo`okVffPYbJPYDGU77W95XB4 } ; END PARAMETER FILE========================================= ; ;