; Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:29:46 -0400 ; ; To: fractint@mailman.xmission.com ; cc: philofractal@lists.fractalus.com ; ; From: Jim Muth ; Reply-To: Fractint and General Fractals Discussion ; ; ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 08-09-07 (Missing the Mark [3]) ; ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20070907183014.0da7635c@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- September 08, 2007 (Rating 3) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; Today's image is a big disappointment. When I found it, I had ; great hopes for a third stellar image. What I ended up with was ; a boring image the likes of which has been seen countless times ; before. Somewhere along the line I missed the mark, which is ; what I named the image. ; ; The parent fractal is the same one that supplied the very fine ; images of the past two days. I once again found the FOTD in the ; semi-chaos near the northern end of the chain of large bays, but ; today's image bears no relation to the previous two days' images. ; ; In an effort to bring some life to a fractal corpse, I rendered ; the image whth the outside set to 'real', not that it made much ; of an improvement. Before deciding on 'real', I tried the other ; 'outside' options as well as the 'evaporated' inside options. ; But these were not even up to the outside=real version I used. ; ; I was generous when I rated the image at a lowly 3, and consider- ; ing its calculation time of 9 minutes on the fast machine and ; just under an hour on the slow unit, the image cannot be seen as ; any kind of a bargain. ; ; But hey, it's still a fractal, and fractals are what it's all ; about. And best of all, the finished image is posted on the ; FOTD web site at: ; ; ; ; where it may be viewed at leisure and without effort. ; ; With a temperature of 90F 32C, haze and high humidity, and other ; annoyances, Friday was far from perfect here at Fractal Central. ; The cats slept through most of it, while I was annoyed by an ; irate customer who sent an e-mail claiming I had sent a job in ; the wrong format. I replied that the format I sent is what the ; supervisor at the customer's print shop said he needed. An hour ; later I got an e-mail telling me to ignore the first e-mail. ; ; We had none of these irritating formatting problems years ago ; when I worked with a knife and cement on a light table, a job ; which actually took a bit of skill. Maybe it's getting close to ; the time to hang 'em up and concentrate on finding fractals ; while the rest of mankind reduces itself to a universal plasma ; of mediocrity for the sake of a bit more convenience. ; ; The next FOTD will be ready in 24 hours, glorious or not. Until ; then, take care, and when you have taken total care, go out and ; have some fun. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Missing_the_Mark { ; time=0:09:04.53-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=recip passes=1 center-mag=-0.57722364191193430/-0.692880201307236\ 80/4726027/1/-30.5/2.6479593885631e-008 logmap=-830 params=-5.5/-1.4142/-1.1/-4/0/0/0/0 float=y maxiter=7500 inside=0 outside=real periodicity=10 colors=000UIUUIUUIUUIUUIUUIUUIUUIUUIUUJUUIVUIXUHYU\ GZTG`RFaOEcMDdKDfHCgFBiDBjAAl89m69n7Cm8Fm9IlALlBOk\ CRkCTjDWjEZiFaiGdhHghHihO__UQS`GJf6BjKDmXFqjHtwInp\ Dij8dd3caAbZHaWOaUUkOOuIJoOPjUVdZ`_dfUilPorKtxJstJ\ sqIsnIrjHrgHrdGr`GqYFqVFqREpOEpLDpHDpECoBCo7Bo4Bo1\ Dm4Fk6Hj9JhBLgENeGPdJRbLTaOV_QXZTZXV`WYbU_dTbfRdhQ\ gjOikNkkQhkSekUbkW_kYYk`VkbSkdPkfMkhKicNh_QfWTeRVd\ NYbJ`aEb_AeZ6hY2jKMo6et9bqB_oEYmGVkJSiLQgONeQKcTIa\ VF_YCY_AWcBRgBNjCInEEqG9uI5xK1wM4wO7wQAvSDvUGvWJuY\ Mu_PuaSucVneThgSbiQXjPRkNLlMFmK9mJ3mI6mJ8mKBmLDmMG\ mNImOLmPNmQQmRSnSVoTXpU_qVarWdsXftYiuZkv_nw`pxarya\ mzehzhczk_zn`zk`zgazdbzaczZczVdzSezPfzMfzJhzPizVkz\ `lzfnzlozrpzxpzupzrpzopzmpzjpzgpzepzbpz_pzXpzVpzSp\ zPpzNlzOizOfzOczO`zOYzOVzOXzNZzN`zNbzNdzNfzNhzNjzN\ lzNnzNpzNrzNtzNvzNwzN`z`FznGzmHzlHzkIzjJziJzhKzgKz\ fLzeMzdMzcNzbNzbvzFwzFxzG } frm:MandAutoCritInZ {; 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)+(p4)), 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========================================= ; ; ; _______________________________________________ ; Fractint mailing list ; Fractint@mailman.xmission.com ; http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint