; Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:22:05 -0500 ; ; To: fractint@mailman.xmission.com ; cc: philofractal@lists.fractalus.com ; ; From: Jim Muth ; Reply-To: Fractint and General Fractals Discussion ; ; ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 20-12-07 (As Far As It Goes [6.5]) ; ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20071219222410.2b8ffb8c@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- December 20, 2007 (Rating 6.5) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; I passed an hour or so Wednesday afternoon pondering the much ; sought after theory of everything (except self-awareness, that ; is). I have lost track of the current leader of the pack of ; theories, but the last time I checked, M-theory, which is sup- ; posed to explain everything including the cause of the 'big ; bang', was coming on strong. I think this theory requires 11 ; dimensions, though I heard somewhere that a 12th dimension, ; which would be a second dimension of time, might be needed to ; get the numbers to add up. ; ; What would it be like to live in a universe with two temporal ; dimensions. We would no longer be trapped on a line moving ; ineluctably into the future. We would be able to move sideways ; in time, to circle around and experience the same event again ; and again, from different directions. Of course, it would be ; impossible to predict the future, if there even was a past and ; a future, because we would be able to choose any part of the ; future we preferred. And what would happen to fractals such as ; the Mandelbrot set in a 12-dimensional world? ; ; Speaking of fractals, today's image takes us to the southernmost ; fringes of the parent fractal for December, all the way to the ; terminal ring of the filament extending from the period-14 bud. ; The image is nominally interesting, and I have named it "As Far ; As It Goes". The name refers to the magnitude, which has just ; exceeded the limit of resolution. ; ; 5*(10^9) is not an unusually large magnitude, but the decimal ; point has been shifted several places in the calculation, making ; this magnitude as large as resolution will permit. Considering ; the lack of sharpness and the lack of oomph in the colors, I ; rated the image at a 6-1/2. My coloring is not included in this ; rating; the basic image earns the entire 6.5 points. ; ; The parameter file is quite a fast one, finishing as it does in ; a supersonic 1-3/4 minutes. And if even this is too slow, the ; completed image is or soon will be available on the FOTD web ; site at: ; ; ; ; Heavy clouds all morning, light flurries of snow all afternoon, ; and a temperature that hung around freezing all day made Wednes- ; day of questionable worth here at Fractal Central. The fractal ; cats wondered why the dog that hung around the neighborhood for ; several hours did not go home and get warm. ; ; I had another notably average day. The next FOTD will be posted ; in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and when I posted the first ; FOTD to the Fractal Art list almost 11 years ago, I expected to ; post one or two more before I grew tired of it. I guess I was ; wrong. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= As_Far_As_It_Goes { ; time=0:01:45.12-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=recip center-mag=-56.69915584369026/-148.8951750514287/\ 5.10025e+009/1/-2.5/2.26305686272451623e-005 params=-2.475/-1.05/-0.275/-5.5/0/0/0/0 float=y maxiter=1200 inside=255 logmap=162 periodicity=10 mathtolerance=0.05/1 colors=000BBNBBMDDRBBLDERBBJDGQB9IDGQBBLJEGBDB4E80\ N20a00Y00n1Bi8QtEbqJqzQstXzzazxdzzfxtgwwipqklqldln\ blpXgsRftNdwIaxD_z8Xz2Tz0Rz0Vx0Xq0Yk0ad0bY0dR0gL0i\ E0k80n10p00q00s00p04n0Dl0Ji2Rg8qfEgdJxaOw_TzYYzXbz\ NgTDl84pB9aEENIJ8GIEGIJEGQEGVEE_DEfDDkDDpLJqRQsYXs\ datkgtqnwxtwzzxzzxzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzznzfTObQOaOO_NOYJOVIOTGORDOQBON9OL6OJ4OD4N\ I1OJ1QN1TO1TR0VT0YX0_Y0aa0ab0bf0fg0fk0gl0ip0kq0lt0\ nw0px0qz0sz0tz0wz0xz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz\ 0zz0zz1zz4zz8zx9zwBzsDzpGznIzkJzgLzdOxaQx_RxXTwTXw\ QYwN_tLatIdtDfs9gs4iw8isBgpEglIfiLffOdbQdaTbYXbTYa\ QaaNd_Jf_IdXJdVJdTLbRLbQNbONbNNaLOaJOaIQaGQ_ET_DT_\ BT_9TY8TY6VY4VY1VX0YX0YX0_X0_V0aV0aV0aV0aT0aT0bT0b\ J0fO0fT0bY0ab0ag0_l0Yq0Vw0VzELzTBzi2zw0zz0zz0zz0zz\ 0zz0zz0zz18GV9EVDBTE9TG6T } 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