; Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 10:07:19 -0500 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 07-12-04 (Yin and Yang [8]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20041207100902.22b79100@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- December 07, 2004 (Rating 8) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; Today we tackle the last formula of the Fractint list, the ; 'volterra-lotka' formula, which appears in the book "The Beauty ; of Fractals". This formula is one of those that fully comes to ; life only when its inside parts are rendered with an active ; fill, such as the 'atan' that I used for today's image. Setting ; the 'decomp' feature to 256 helped the image also. ; ; Today's fractal has brought out the mystic in me. The reason ; for the name of the image, "Yin and Yang", is obvious as soon as ; the image is seen. The resemblance to the yin-yang symbol is ; striking. Yin and yang are not two Chinese farmers, they are ; the names the Chinese have given to the two great polar oppo- ; sites of the universe, the energies which manifest themselves in ; many contrasting ways, such as positive-negative, objective- ; subjective, matter-energy, time-space, past-future, wave- ; particle, male-female, heaven-earth, body-soul, brain-mind, ; etc., (though materialists would deny that things such as heaven ; and the soul exist, and would insist that the mind is somehow ; generated by the brain). ; ; Having caught myself waxing philosophic, which I have a tendency ; to do, I will now admit that in the second half of my life I ; find myself slowly drifting from the scientific view of the ; world toward the mystical view. In contrast to the scientific ; view, which breaks things down into their constituent parts and ; studies the pieces, the mystical view joins things together into ; larger units, the ultimate single unit being God. (Become one ; with ***** they say.) I have not yet found God, but then we are ; all like deep-sea fish searching for water. ; ; Fractals must in some way be connected to the ultimate unit, but ; we have gone far enough in the philosophical direction for one ; day. Today's fractal rates an 8 and renders in a little over 2 ; minutes, a combination that gives it an overall worth of 360 -- ; not bad for a yin-yang symbol. ; ; It will take no miracle to see today's image by running the ; included parameter file or by downloading it from the FOTD web ; site at: ; ; ; ; Cold, damp, dreary weather with occasional light rain here at ; Fractal Central kept the dynamic cats indoors all day Monday. ; Needless to say, much tuna was needed to keep them happy. Today ; is starting warmer but it is raining again. It looks like I ; should stock up on more tuna. ; ; For me the work is moderate. I should be at the fractal machine ; before the sun sets, which it does at 4:43pm today. Until ; tomorrow, take care, and despite the skepticism, never abandon ; the search for the part of existence that lies beyond the limits ; of the senses. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Yin_and_Yang { ; time=0:02:19.95--SF5 on a P200 reset=2004 type=volterra-lotka passes=1 center-mag=1.08715/1.13888/3.934074/1/-90/-1.23373\ 5336114705e-014 params=0.5008/0.4827 float=y maxiter=256 bailout=9 inside=atan outside=atan logmap=yes decomp=256 periodicity=0 colors=000UekWdkYck_ajc`ih_imXjrVkwTlzRmzPnzNozLqz\ JszguzewzczzazzZzzXzzUzzPzzKzzFzzAzz5zz0z000000000\ 000A0AA0AA0AA0AA5LB8NDBOFEQHHRJKTKNUMQVOTXQWYSZ_Ua\ `RBrSBrSArTArTArU9sU9tV9uV8vW8wW8xW8wVAuUBtUCrTDqT\ EpSGoSHoRIoRJnQKnQMnPNmPOmOPmOQlNSlNTlMUkMVkLWkLYj\ KZjK_jJ`iIaiIchHdhHehGfgGggFigFkfEmgEohDqiDsjCukCv\ mBwoBwqAwsAwu9ww9wy8wz8wzAwzBwzDwzEwzFwzHwzImzKjzL\ hzMfz3azQgzllzUSNB05A8H99T8Ad8BpSZqjuqPRX000000000\ 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\ 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\ 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\ 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\ 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\ 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\ 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\ 0000000000000000000000000 } ; END PARAMETER FILE========================================= ; ;