; Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 08:34:55 -0400 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 16-09-06 (Circle With Horns [5]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20060916083559.29cf588a@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- September 16, 2006 (Rating 5) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; OK. So today's FOTD is 8 hours late. What of it? If I needed ; an excuse, I would point to the small but urgent job that came ; in unexpectedly yesterday morning. The missing FOTD discussion ; is probably for the best, since I had a long statement about ; reality planned for the Philofractal list, which would likely ; have spoiled my already tarnished reputation. (After all, ; nothing upsets rational-thinkers more than the suggestion that ; the foundation of their world view, the real physical world of ; nature, might not be as real as advertised.) ; ; As it is, we will have no philosophy today. (It might come ; later.) We must settle for a brief description of today's ; image, which is a view in the Oblate direction of a Seahorse ; Valley. But it is not the familiar valley. To find today's ; valley we must go to the large midget at -1.75 of the Mandelbrot ; set and then find that midget's largest sub-midget, which is ; located around -1.785 of the M-set. Today's image shows a side ; view of the Seahorse Valley of this sub-midget. ; ; The scene was stretched in the vertical direction by a factor of ; 30 to bring it to its state of viewability. (Actually, this is ; measured by a compression factor of 0.033 in the horizontal ; direction.) If the image were not manipulated, we would see ; nothing more than a series of featureless horizontal stripes. ; ; I gave the result a rather surreal name -- "Circle with Horns". ; That's what I see when I look at it. I rated the image at a 5. ; It had far too little effort put into it to rate anything ; higher. Rendering the image will demand very little valuable ; time. The included parameter file finishes in 27 seconds. The ; unlucky ones with over-qualified computers can find the image on ; the fotd web site at: ; ; ; ; Things got unexpectedly very busy here at New Fractal Central ; on Friday, with a job that had to be delivered by the week-end. ; The fractal cats became sulky when they got too little atten- ; tion. They didn't concern themselves with the mostly cloudy day ; and the occasional light showers. Toward sunset a perfect rain- ; bow formed in the east, which went completely un-noticed by the ; duo, who were chasing each other madly up and down the long hall- ; way at the time. ; ; In my department, the job was finally finished and delivered. ; And nothing more is in sight, at least at the moment. It looks ; like the next FOTD will appear in around 16 hours. Until then, ; take care, and be glad you are real. (Or are you?) ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Circle_With_Horns { ; time=0:00:27.19--SF5 on a P200 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=multirot-XY-ZW-new function=ident/flip passes=1 center-mag=0/0/1840.308/0.033 params=0/90\ /2/0/0/0/-1.78575/0 float=y maxiter=50000 inside=0 logmap=23 symmetry=xyaxis periodicity=10 colors=000QmbYnddpflrhscjlahe`gZYfTXdMXcFYe9_aFaXL\ cSMeNKcKD`EEYCERBEM9EG8EB6E65HD6JJ7MQ7OW8Qb9Th9VoA\ XuAYmDZfFZZI_SK_KN`DP`6RfDSkJTpQUuWVzaVteSnhQhkObo\ MXrKRuILxGInVFeiJfbNgXRhRViLZjFaj9blCbmEcoGcpIdrKd\ sMeuOevQ`wVWwZRwcMwgHwkCwp7wt2wx8srDplIlfNi`SeVXbP\ a_JgaLldNqfPpdRobTo`UnZWmXYmVZlU`lSakQcjOejMfiKhiJ\ ijKhjLgkLfkMfkMelNdlNdmOcmObmPbnPanQ`nQ`lRZkSXjTVh\ TTgURfVPdVNcWLbXJ`XH_YFZZDYZBZ_DZ`EZaFZbHZbI_cJ_dK\ _eM_fN_fO`gP`hR`iS`jT`jUbQSQVUDZWPTP_OJ`dV`ufKfLQw\ NCGuSPdgXOwd7wOQw8gp9Zj9Qd9HeGOfMUgT_hZekYamYYoYUq\ YQlWZgUgcTpS`hGg`4nTXR`y3gf2ZO2Q62HK8FXEEjKCwPBS_2\ EP91FGcN9R_BFkD3wE2pO2iX2bf2XoqZXRQtLpDMm_WsKTpXQm\ i__GJsWKpbLniMlpuG8iRPY`eC1_IOkzjGfja0qs6otCmuIkvp\ H0fRKX`cBdiEfmHgpKisSf4QhNOidCFvGQvK`v5nGBlVHkh`s3\ 3tCApSHmgaKNUYdALQT0DRGTPWgrFEbV`JJFLTUMahuP6c_Xex\ 5hDj`PnU_rdcl_eoWgqBiZJk` } frm:multirot-XY-ZW-new {; draws 6 planes and rotations ;when fn1-2=i,f, then p1 0,0=M, 0,90=O, 90,0=E, 90,90=J ;when fn1-2=f,i, then p1 0,0=M, 0,90=R, 90,0=P, 90,90=J a=real(p1)*.01745329251994, b=imag(p1)*.01745329251994, z=sin(b)*fn1(real(pixel))+sin(a)*fn2(imag(pixel))+p3, c=cos(b)*real(pixel)+cos(a)*flip(imag(pixel))+p4: z=z^(p2)+c, |z| <= 36 } ; END PARAMETER FILE========================================= ; ;