; Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:43:36 -0500 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 18-11-04 (Portuguese Man-of-War [5) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20041118094504.29afa242@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- November 18, 2004 (Rating 5) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; When I was working with yesterday's formula, which is the ; Mandelbrot version of today's manowarj formula, I could find no ; truly open areas in which the points are definitely trapped. ; This does not mean such areas do not exist, only that if they ; do, I found none of them. Today's Julia version continues the ; same trend. True, a large open area does lie at the center of ; today's image, but the area is not truly open. It shrinks as ; the maxiter is increased, and with a large enough maxiter would ; likely vanish entirely. ; ; With today's image I can see why the formula is named manowar. ; The shape in the picture looks just enough like a drifting ; portuguese man-of-war to inspire its name. In the twisting ; elements of the image, the tentacles swirling in the currents ; can be imagined, as I suppose the sting can also be, at least ; by those who have been stung by one of these colonies of ; jellyfish. ; ; The magnitude of the image is a measly 3.4, yet it takes almost ; one hour to render on my worn-out P200 unit. (It renders in ; just under 7 minutes on my fastest machine.) The slowness is ; due to the unusually large maxiter of 250,000 and the lack of ; periodicity to speed things up in the large pseudo-open area. ; ; As for a rating -- I could give the image only a 5. It is ; basically a slight enlargement of half of the parent fractal -- ; something that most casual explorers would come upon. To make ; matters worse, when the render time of almost one hour is taken ; into consideration, the overall worth registers a nearly ; worthless 8.7. ; ; But all is not lost, for the rendering wait can be eliminated by ; downloading the already-rendered image from the FOTD web site at: ; ; ; ; Wednesday turned out to be a repeat of Tuesday here at Fractal ; Central, with lots of sun and a temperature of 61F 16C. The ; cats had another great day. Today is starting cloudy and not ; quite as warm. The cats will likely find it good enough, but ; only time will tell for sure. My good day will be delayed until ; the unexpected large design job now before me is put behind me. ; The next FOTD fractal will appear in 24 hours. Until then, take ; care, and be an activist for the environment. Go out and Demon- ; strate against a butterfly catastrophe. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= PortugueseManOfWar { ; time=0:57:39.31--SF5 on a P200 reset=2004 type=manowarj center-mag=-0.00783669/\ -0.291023/3.392057 params=0.03/0 float=y inside=0 maxiter=250000 bailout=9 logmap=yes periodicity=10 colors=000bHi_JgXLdUMbRO`OPYLRWKSVJRUIQTHPSHORGNQG\ MQFLNEKKCJHBIF9IC8J97K7DMCJPHQSMXWRbZWha`mceqdjsgk\ uhnsgmpdmn`lkXlhVkfUkeYmddockqbrsaup_xnZzkYziWygUu\ fSqdRmcPjaNf`MbZKZYIVWHSVLU`OWfRYkU_qZ`uXavWawUawT\ axSaxQbyPbzNbzMbzLbzJczIczGczFczEczHbzKbyNawPauS`s\ V`qX_n__lbZjdZhgYfjYdwXglYbbZZS_UI`Q8aMBbNDcNFdNHe\ NJeNLfNNgNPhORiOTiOVjOXkOZlO`mOTezbmOajRahU`eW`cZ_\ ``_Zcs8Y_XeEweHumrIWzCRsGVlKZdObYSfQWjBVlJ_nRcoZgq\ olzfkrZkfQkVIkJAk8ClFDlMElSFlZHleIlkJlrKlxOfrSamWW\ g_RbcLXgGSkAMo5HpGJpRLq`NqkPrwTquRpsQoqPnoOmmNlkMk\ iLjgKieJhcIgaHhaFg`Gg_GgZHgZHgYIgXIgXJgWJgVKgUKgUL\ gTLgSMkRKgSMcSN`SPXSQUSRQSTNSUJSVGSXCSY9SZDUYGVXKW\ WNYWRZVU_UGQfX`UllJmjImiImhHmgHmfGneGndFncFnaEn`Eo\ _DoZDoYCoXCoWBtW9oVBjUDeUE`TGWSIPQESSJVTNXUS_WWaX_\ dYdfZhi`lkaqnbupcyq`xqZxqWxqUxrRxrPxrMwrKwsHwsFwsC\ wsAwv6zs8wpAumBrjDpgEndGk } ; END PARAMETER FILE========================================= ; ;