; Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:21:17 -0400 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 12-07-05 (Hanging Gardens [5]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20050712102313.0d4765b0@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- July 12, 2005 (Rating 5) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; There is a curious phenomenon well known to artists, which I ; call circular improvement. It happens when an artist studies ; his work and decides that something needs to be changed to ; improve the work. When the change is made, he sees another ; change that would improve it further. Finally, after numerous ; changes, every one of which brings a small improvement, he ; compares the revised work to the work as it stood before he ; began the revisions. Surprise! The original version is in some ; ways better than the much revised version. This same thing ; happened to me as I worked on the colors of today's image. ; After many color revisions, I found myself back where I started. ; ; To produce today's fractal I made a very small change to the ; parameters of yesterday's image. The tiny change opened the ; spurious area of chaos into a whole new world of exploration. ; I have just begun the exploration, but already I have found ; several scenes worth additional effort. ; ; Today's image is named "Hanging Gardens". No, we are not back ; in ancient Babylon, we are in a fractal in the present-day era ; of advanced technology that is leading us to who-knows-what. ; The scene resembles a mountainous terrain with a garland of ; flowery decorations stretching across the sky. The garland ; appears to be hanging from nothing, thus the name. ; ; Though my trademark midget is nowhere to be seen in today's ; image, countless midgets too small to be seen lie hidden ; throughout it. One of these midgets will reveal itself in ; tomorrow's FOTD. ; ; The image consists of half outside and half inside stuff. The ; inside stuff has been rendered with the inside set to 'bof61'. ; Some of the other inside settings produce images nearly as good. ; ; I could rate today's image no higher than a 5. Without a midget ; at the center it just doesn't seem to be a true Fractal of the ; Day. The render time of 15 minutes can be cut drastically by ; calculating the image with the passes set to 'g' or 't', though ; doing so will cause a bit of the finer detail to be missed. ; ; A better way of saving time is to download the pre-rendered GIF ; image from the FOTD web site at: ; ; ; ; The high temperature of 90F 32C here at Fractal Central on ; Monday was quite warm for the dynamic duo to endure, but being ; intrepid, they braved the conditions for all of two hours, ; keeping as cool as possible in the shade of the holly trees. I ; braved the tropical conditions in the comfort of my air-cooled ; workroom, where the FOTD images come into being. Today is ; starting the same; I expect more of the same from the fractal ; cats. The next FOTD image will appear in 24 hours. Until then, ; take care, don't be too credulous, and don't become too closed ; minded. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Hanging_Gardens { ; time=0:15:39.36--SF5 on a P200 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=ident passes=1 center-mag=-17.9735/-1.95726/0.8318545/1/7.5/3.885\ 7805861880479e-016 params=-0.99/1.01/0.99/-1/0/3600 float=y maxiter=1000 inside=bof61 periodicity=10 colors=000QBOPCzODRNEzNFTMHzLIVKJzKKYJLzIM_HOzGPaG\ QmFRdESeDUfDVgCWhBXiAYk9_z9`m8Un7cp6cp6cq7cp7cp7bn\ 7co7al7cn7_k7cm7Zi7cl7Yg7ck7Xf7cj7Wd8Vc8Ub8Ub8Ta8T\ `8S_8RZPU_QWZRYYSSXT`WUWWVcVW`UWUTXeSYjSZkR_UQ`oPa\ UObxKaUMasNaqOaoPamRakSajT`hU`fV`eX`cY`bZ``_UUa`_`\ _Z_ZYZYYZYXYXWXWWXVVWUUVUUVTTUSSTRSTRRSQQRPQROPQNO\ PNOPMNOLMNKMNJLMJKLIKLHJKGIJHHIGIJGIJGJJGJJGKKGKKG\ LKGLKGMKGMLFNLFNLFOLFOMFPMFPMFQMFQMFRNFRNFSNESNETO\ ETOEUOEUOEVOEVPEWPEWPEXPCWNEXPGXQHYRJYSLYTMZUOZVQ_\ WR_XT_YV`_W``Yaa_ab`acbbddbeecfgcgkdihchfbhcaga`gZ\ _gXZfUYfSXfPWeNVeKUeITdFSdDRdAQc8Pc6Oc8Pd9QdAReCSe\ DSeETfFUfHVfIVgJWgKXgMYhNZhOZiQ_iR`iSWjTajVWjWckXW\ k`boZYmYdkX`iWfgVaeUgcScaRi_QbYPiWO`UNjSMcQKjOJcMI\ kKHaIGjGFUEDjCCdABi8A`69i48b27g08Z49gCA`KBhSCb_Djb\ BclEjpGWpIfpKbpMipPUpRjpThpVfpXNp_cpaapc_pUZpgXpUV\ plUpUSpKLpLNpMOpNQpORpGMp } 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========================================= ; ;