; Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:00:40 -0500 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 03-01-06 (Coronal Display [6]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20060103010256.0d6f7d96@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- January 03, 2006 (Rating 6) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; I'm back . . . again! And this time things are caught up enough ; for me to feel reasonably confident there will be no further ; interruptions to the steady flow of FOTD fractals for at least ; two weeks . . . that is unless the unexpected happens. ; ; When I opened my e-mail box yesterday for the first time in two ; days, I was surprised by the number of spam letters offering ; fake Rolex watches. I was expecting a flood of impossibly cheap ; mortgage offers. What is it with Rolex watches? What do they ; do other than measure time? Are they some kind of a status ; symbol? And why would I want a Rolex. My 29-dollar digital ; watch shows the time as accurately as a Rolex and wakes me up ; with an annoying buzz. ; ; I might not know much about the latest trends in watches, but ; I'm reasonably hip about fractals. Today's trip into iteration ; land takes us to the ghost of the fractal generated when 0.2 ; negative parts of Z^(-4.2) are combined with negative Z^(-1.6) ; and (1/C) is added. This parent fractal is typical of fractals ; generated by negative powers of Z. It is grossly oversized, ; with no organized shape at all. The filaments extending from ; the buds end in filament rings, with disconnected bits of debris ; scattered inside these rings. Today's scene is an evaporated ; one, which means it consists totally of trapped 'inside' points. ; It is located in one of these disconnected islands of chaos. ; ; I named the image "Coronal Display" and rated it at a 6. The ; name came to me at random. Considering the lack of effort, the ; rating seems fair. ; ; The quite brief render time of 1-1/2 minutes means that those ; who are disappointed with today's image will have wasted little ; computer time in calculating it. Those who download the ; completed GIF image from the FOTD web site at: ; ; ; ; will have wasted almost no time at all. ; ; On a minor philosophical note, a couple nights ago I watched a ; TV program on which the rational skeptics once again debunked ; the easy-to-debunk professional psychic fortune tellers who ; dared to appear, pretty much proving to the skeptics' satisfac- ; tion that foretelling the future is impossible. ; ; The skeptics' victory was hollow, for they had little competi- ; tion. They merely demonstrated once again that professional ; fortune tellers are about as accurate as would be expected by ; chance. They did not prove that getting hints of future events ; is impossible. (Such a proof is impossible!) Nor did they ; prove that it does not happen. (It does happen!) I know from ; experience that not only is it possible for information to ; travel backward in time, but sometimes it actually does happen, ; and somehow it works its way into a person's awareness. The ; frustration is that I have no way of convincing skeptics of the ; truth of precognition. ; ; I suspect that the answer lies in the nature of time. The ; theory of relativity pretty much does away with the universal ; sequential time that we take for granted in our everyday lives. ; Such time is an illusion. But what is really there? What ; permits hints of future events to travel into the past? I will ; have more to say about this topic in future philo-FOTD messages. ; ; Wet days alternated with dry days here at the Old Fractal Cen- ; tral over the holiday. The cats' moods varied as widely as the ; weather. Luckily, the supply of tuna held out. In my depart- ; ent the work is almost caught up, though not yet quite there. ; Another day will do the job. The next FOTD will appear in 24 ; hours. Until then, take care, and things are never so good that ; they cannot get better. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Coronal_Display { ; time=0:01:32.05--SF5 on a P200 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=b center-mag=+3.60233139728942900/-4.671380906891381\ 00/2.396608e+008/1/-42.5/-0.000519007388164821615 params=-1/-1.6/-0.2/-4.2/3/1e+100 float=y maxiter=400 inside=bof61 periodicity=10 colors=000igkkfl6Pgc37e8DfDIgIOhNTjSYkXclahafCcfHd\ fMffRgfVif_jfdlfi7jlThmQ3V_qZcnbfkfjhjURZDShSFHOXj\ TOSZ`kUJKhdmH0KiQkdISzzzUKUHJbSRfMT2K_6IfAclEFsIzz\ YjggzvmNtTSqXWo_`mcdjfihjVBBYGH`LNcPSeUYhYbkbh`gxd\ fugfrjfo93gBC0JJARPKZVUf`cTv_avKgnZXmosA0pRPuQnrWm\ oam`kqdipghojgnGUgNXiU_j`akgdlslrqjpohnwS3xVtuYrr`\ pocn3wWFr`RndbjiLDNQISVNW_S`dXdiaiIr_YlfSaCWbIZcNa\ dTddYgecjfh4zdRpiKjoSinZhnfgmlM2mRCmVMmZVmbdOeJXfU\ efc79BDEGIILOMQTQVYV_cZdhbiJeaPfcUfeZfgcfihfkbJxfR\ tjZp7AvGHtPOrXUpe`nBe9VfUOALXLVeWdqj0ohPRSIb_YeHxo\ CRnKXnSbm_he9SpXXoZ`n`cnbgmdjuBosInqOnpVmn`mFKOXW`\ oNUnQXnSZnVanXcm_fmahmdkz03w9DtIMrQWoZdSp1Vn8YmE`l\ KbkQeiWhhakggBd7zT`5vyErvNotWlqdioQuMYpWekdLbT_dc9\ azNcu`eqCfPMfWVfadfgx3Wv8ZuD`sIbrNdqSgoXinakzzRwvW\ tr`rndojivxwsstqorojodnq`rRglbOcd3X9SwcVteYrf`pgbn\ heljhjkkhlXke_jgaihdhifhj } 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========================================= ; ;