; Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 09:22:57 -0400 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 05-08-06 (Negative Thinking [6]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20060805092328.2f970ce6@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- August 05, 2006 (Rating 6) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; The lateness of today's FOTD is due to a problem with Mind- ; spring, my ISP. When the regular posting time arrived between ; 11pm and midnight last evening, I could not get connected. Oh ; well, as they say, nobody's perfect, expecially internet ; service providers. Things are better this morning. (I hope.) ; ; Today's image shows one of the things that happens when 0.7 part ; of the negative square rot of 2 is subtracted from 0.7 part of ; the positive square root of 2. Actually, an infinity of things ; happen, but with limited time I can cover only one of them. To ; show that more than one thing happens, I will use the parent ; fractal of today's image as the source of tomorrow's image. ; ; The parent fractal resembles a grossly inflated and skewed ; figure 8. Today's scene is located in the vicinity of the east ; branch of the valley that separates the north and south lobes ; of the 8. This area resembles an eroded shoreline filled with ; Mandelbrot bays -- I think they are called radicals. The tiny ; midget at the center of today's image is located far out on a ; filament extending from the center of one of these bays. ; ; I have found that the overall nature of today's scene is quite ; common in fractals which combine more than one power of Z, so I ; could rate the image no higher than a 6. Yes, in the world of ; fractals, originality does count. ; ; I named the image "Negative Thinking" because it deserves a ; name. I can give no good reason for the exact name, other than ; a reaction to all the benefits of positive thinking we keep ; hearing about. Life is a mixture of good and bad events. ; Positive thinking is getting as much enjoyment as possible from ; the good things while minimizing the anger etc. from the bad ; things. Positive thinking sounds good in theory but it doesn't ; seem to work very well in practice. I suppose negative thinking ; would be the opposite. (Maybe negative thinking is what there ; is too much of in the middle east.) ; ; There is no problem with the render time of the included para- ; meter file, which is under 6 minutes, and this is on my ancient ; fractal-dedicated computer with the exhaust fan that needs a ; slice of tissue attached to blow in the wind so that I can tell ; when the fan stops running and must be goosed to life again. ; ; And running the included parameter file may be avoided entirely ; by downloading the finished image from the FOTD web site at: ; ; ; ; The perfect weather here at Fractal Central on Friday went un- ; appreciated by the new fractal cats, who spent the day indoors, ; chasing each other up and down the hallway, and getting into ; various other mischief. In my department, the work appears to ; be getting heavy. Hopefully, we will be able to keep it under ; control. The next FOTD is due to appear in 15 hours. If it ; fails to appear, you will know that the work was not kept under ; control. Until next time, take care, and when you need some ; positive thinking, think of fractals. I am positive they will ; ease your distress, or at least make you think your distress ; has been eased. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Negative_Thinking { ; time=0:05:49.33--SF5 on a P200 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=-1.17954814796951500/-0.092458505525142\ 48/2.914394e+010/1/112.5/-0.0150162000124490908 params=0.7/-1.4142/-0.7/1.4142/0/0 float=y maxiter=1800 inside=0 periodicity=10 colors=0001hMBfJLdGVcDdaAn_7xZ4feLQkaOfeMbhKZkJUnH\ QqFMtEIwIGsLEpOClRAiU8eX6b_4Zb2WW3YQ3ZJ3`D3a63c03d\ 46e88fCAgGCgKEhOGiSIiTHhTHhTGgUGgUFfUFfUEeVEeVDdVD\ dWCcWCcWBbWBbY7d_4ea1fgQjmmmlljlkglkekjbki_kiYkhVj\ gSjgQjfNieKieIidFidDffHchL`jPZkSWmWTo_QqcOrfLtjIvn\ GwqJurMtrPssSrsVqtXpt_oubnuelvhkvjjwmiwphxsgxvfyxe\ ysgvoitkkqgmocol_qjWsgSueOwcLlZIaVFRRCBNADJDFKFHLI\ JMKLNNNOPPPSRQUTRXVSZXT`ZWa`Ybb_cdadfcfhegjghliink\ jomhnmgkmehmdembbma`m_YmZVmYSmWPmVNmTKmSHmQEmPBmO9\ mIHfCO_7VTFZWNbZVf`bicjmerqhytjxsixshwrhwrgvrfvqfu\ qeuqetpdtpcsocsobroarnaqn`qn`poZppXpqWpqUorSosRotP\ ouOnvMnwKnxJnyHmzFmzEmzCmzBjzAgxAevAbtA_sAYrAVp9So\ 9Qn9Nl9Kk9Ij9HiBHhCHhEHgFHfGGfIGeJGdLGdMGcNFbPFbQF\ aSF`TF`ULZXRY_XWbbVdhTgnSjtQmyPowOpuNqtMqrLrqKroJs\ nIslGrkFqiDphCofBne9mc8lb6k`5j_4ja9hbDgcHf_ysWwoTu\ lQtiNrfKqcGo`DnYAlV7kS4iP } 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========================================= ; ;