; Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:01:11 -0500 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 14-02-05 (Shattered Shells [9]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20050214120130.0d6f1088@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- February 14, 2005 (Rating 9) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; Today's fractal image is so different, so striking, that little ; can be said about it. The image speaks for itself. I am not ; going to speculate about where the voice comes from, but when ; the image is viewed, the fractal voice will be heard. ; ; To find the image, I made a slight change in the parent fractal ; that I have been using for about a week. I increased the ; portion of Z^(-1.26) from 5 to 9, a change that causes the whole ; fractal to shrink while keeping most of its overall features ; intact. ; ; I then searched along the southeast shoreline of the large ; circular bay. This bay is unusual in that it has no obvious ; buds along its shoreline, but as today's image shows, it does ; have midgets. ; ; When I found today's scene, I tried the usual tricks on it. I ; tried all the 'outside' options and found the 'tdis' option ; works best. Then I evaporated the image and found that none of ; the 'inside' options makes as good an image as the unevaporated ; outside=tdis version, though the 'bof60' option works best. ; ; Finally, I set the escape radius to 500,000,000, which results ; in a half-evaporated image. I kept the outside parts set to ; 'tdis', the inside parts set to 'bof60', and the result was the ; skeletal framework of today's image. The final step was finding ; a color palette that brings out the best in an image that is ; only half there. ; ; Though Fractint has only 256-color capability, it gives maximum ; versatility to those limited colors, and after a half hour or so ; I had worked up the palette that makes today's image one of the ; few FOTD's that can honestly be said to rate a 9. ; ; When it came time to name the image, I studied it a few minutes, ; then saw a collection of colorful broken shells scattered on a ; fractal beach. I named the image "Shattered Shells", the name ; it will carry for all time. ; ; The render time of 7-1/2 minutes is quite reasonable for one of ; the best FOTD fractal images. But rendering may be avoided ; entirely by downloading the finished image from the FOTD web ; site at: ; ; ; ; The enlightening and informative, (at least IMO), philosophy ; continues in the philofractal version of today's FOTD discussion. ; ; The weather on Sunday was partly cloudy with a high temperature ; of 46F 8C. The fractal cats, who most certainly eat food other ; than tuna, spent about 2 hours lurking in the holly thicket, ; looking for excitement than never happened. When they came ; inside, a small treat of tuna eased their disappointment. (The ; tuna is only a special treat. The dynamic duo's main diet is ; the variety of food that all well-fed cats eat.) But today is ; starting cold and rainy. I see a bad day coming up for the duo. ; ; For me, the commercial work is average, but there is that next ; installment of philosophy to start work on. The next FOTD will ; appear in 24 hours; the next philosophy will take several days ; longer. Until tomorrow, same time same place, take care, and be ; ready for anything. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Shattered_Shells { ; time=0:07:24.73--SF5 on a P200 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+1.38892447657072300/-0.704796288496714\ 20/20019.17/1/125/-4.43365483215885092e-011 float=y params=9/-1.26/0.5/-12.6/0/500000000 maxiter=1000 inside=bof60 outside=tdis periodicity=10 colors=000WqoWrpmb7U`2Wa3Xb3Yb4_c4`d4ad5ce5df5ef6f\ g6hh7ih7ji7lj8mj8nk8ol9ql9rmAsnAunAvoBwpBxpBoiFgcI\ _XLRROJKRBEUDDSFCQHBOIAMK9KM8IN7HP6FR5DS4BU39W27X1\ 6XFHRSROd`MqjOolPmm000UiiXghZefacdcacf_ahY_kWZmUXp\ SVrQUnP`kOfhNliMmjLmjKmkKmkJnlInlInmHnmGonGonFooEo\ oEomFolGojHoiIohJofKoeLodMobNoaOo`PoZQoYRoXSoVToUU\ oTUofHUs58kFGcPNWZVOhaSkbVncYqd`tecwffyggwfhvfiuej\ teksdlrdmqcnpcnoconbpmbqlarkasj`ti`uh_vg_vf_se`qe`\ od`mdakcaicagbaebbcbb`abZacX`cV`cT_cR_dPZdNZdLZdM_\ eM_fM_fM_gN_hN_hN_iN_jN_jO_kO_kO_lO_mO_mP_nP_oP_oP\ _pP_pOaqNbqMcqMdrLerKgrKhrJisIjsIksHlsGntFotFptEqt\ DruDsuCuuBvuBwvAxv9yv9uv8sp8oj8ld8j_8hU8gO8fJAeLCe\ MEeNGePIfQKgRMhTOiUQiVSiXUiYWiZXi`Zia`hbahdcheehfg\ hghhijgjlgkmgmngnpgoqgpofomfnlfmkflifkhfjffidficfh\ afg`ffZfeXfdWfcUfcSfbRfaPf`Nf_MfZKfYJfYIeZIdZIcZIb\ ZIa_I`_XecXgeXigXkiWmkWom } frm:MandelbrotMix4 {; Jim Muth a=real(p1), b=imag(p1), d=real(p2), f=imag(p2), g=1/f, h=1/d, j=1/(f-b), z=(-a*b*g*h)^j, k=real(p3)+1, l=imag(p3)+100, c=fn1(pixel): z=k*((a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f)))+c, |z| < l } ; END PARAMETER FILE========================================= ; ;