;     Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 23:49:32 -0400
;     From: Jim Muth <jamth@mindspring.com>
;  Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 11-05-06 (FOTD for 11-05-06 [No Rating])
;       Id: <1.5.4.16.20060510235319.29b7e7bc@pop.mindspring.com>
; ---------
; 
; FOTD -- May 11, 2006 (No Rating)
; 
; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:
; 
; How could one rate a regular pentagon?  They could not.  A penta-
; gon is unratable.  All regular pentagons are similar.  They're 
; all the same.  Therefore I gave today's image, which features a 
; blatantly obvious pentagon, no rating.  True, the pentagon is 
; decorated by flowery petals, but it is still a pentagon.
; 
; The parent fractal was created by combining small portions of 
; Z^(-0.5) and Z^(-1.5) then adding (1/C).  It consists of several 
; oversized arcs floating in empty space.  Today's scene is 
; located in the smaller arc, which has by far the most detail.
; 
; When I examined this smaller arc, I found no signs of Mandelbrot 
; midgets, but hey, there's nothing wrong with the pentagons that 
; I did find, a great example of which appears in today's picture.
; 
; The passes=b option works exceptionally well with today's image, 
; and it is quite amusing when the outline of the perfect pentagon 
; is suddenly traced out.
; 
; The render time of just under 3 minutes is fair enough, but to 
; speed things up even more, the finished picture of the pentagon 
; has been posted to the FOTD web site at:
; 
;        <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html>
; 
; The weather was perfect here at Old Fractal Central on Wednes-
; day; the fractal cats were perfect also.  My day was appropri-
; ately busy.  The next FOTD is scheduled to appear in 24 hours.  
; It actually might do so.  Until then, take care, and if you 
; actually did find the theory of everything, it would still be 
; nothing but a theory.
; 
; 
; Jim Muth
; jamth@mindspring.com
; jimmuth@aol.com
; 
; 
; START PARAMETER FILE=======================================

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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=========================================
; 
;