; Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:15:19 -0400 ; ; To: fractint@mailman.xmission.com ; cc: philofractal@lists.fractalus.com ; ; From: Jim Muth ; Reply-To: Fractint and General Fractals Discussion ; ; ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 16-06-08 (Royal Scepters [5]) ; ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20080615221517.0d8f76b6@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- June 16, 2008 (Rating 5) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; Yesterday's fractal showed a little-known scene in the Oblate ; view of Seahorse Valley. Today's fractal does the same with the ; next valley out the negative X-axis of the Mandelbrot set, the ; valley at -1.25, also known as Scepter Valley. ; ; I named the image "Royal Scepters" because it is filled with the ; scepter-like elements that give the valley its name. When the ; time came to rate the image, I could grant it a rating no higher ; than a humdrum 5. Just as was the case with yesterday's image, ; I suspect I have already posted at least one FOTD image nearly ; identical to today's. ; ; In addition to the less-than-outstanding rating of today's ; image, its calculation time is a snail's pace near-19 minutes. ; No wonder I recommend viewing the finished image on the FOTD web ; site at: ; ; ; ; And BTW, the 'Oblate' sets are the set of planes determined by ; the real(Z) and imag(C) axes of the Julibrot. They are kind of ; hybrids, half Mandelbrot, half Julia, though in today's image at ; least, the Julia characteristics appear to dominate. ; ; Near perfect weather prevailed here at Fractal Central on ; Sunday, with blue skies, puffy white clouds, and a temperature ; of 86F 30C. The fractal cats must have taken the good weather ; for granted, as they slept through most of the afternoon. I ; tried to enjoy things as much as possible, though yard work ; always seems to prevent a day from being as pleasant as it ; otherwise could be. ; ; The next fractal will be posted in 24 hours, more or less. ; Until then, take care, and they say that God knows everything. ; Why then, does He bother to create souls that He already knows ; are destined to be lost? Another question: what could a person ; do to save himself if he discovers that God knows he is destined ; to be lost? (Or is this just another version of the grandfather ; paradox?) ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Royal_Scepters { ; time=0:18:51.52-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=slices.frm formulaname=Oblate passes=1 center-mag=-1.70684/0/\ 48.56702/2.774 params=0/0/-1.25/0 float=y maxiter=1750000 inside=255 outside=tdis logmap=4 symmetry=xaxis periodicity=10 colors=000BEf8Ff5Gf3GfEOiPVl_aojhrd`m_UiUNePF`J8XE\ 1TK7OQDKWJGi6Kn2NpBSrJWtR_vZcxfgynkvomtpnrqopqpnrq\ lsrjtshttfupevmdwjqxlqylqzkpzkpzkpzkozkozjozjnzjnz\ jnzjozkpzlqzltzmuzlvzlwzmxznyznzzozzpzzWzzWzzXzzXz\ zXzzYzzYzzYzzZzzZzzZzz_zz_zz_zz`zz`zz`zzazzazzbWRt\ WPsXNsXLrYJrYHqYFq_GnaHkcIheJfgKciL`kLZiM`hMagMbfM\ ceMddNfcNgbNhaNi`Nj_Nk`PiaRgbTfcVddWbeYae__faYgcXh\ dVifUjhSjjQklPlmNmoLnqKosIotHmrGlqGjoGinGglGfkFeiF\ chFbfF`eF_dFZbEXaEW_EUZETXESWDQUDPTDNRDMQDLPDPNFTM\ HWLJ_KLcJNfIOjHQnGSqFUuEWxDXoKUfQSYXQQbOHiM8oK0uI1\ vG1wE1wC2xA2x82y62y52q62j72b82W92OA2HB2AC6CFADHEEJ\ IFLMGNQHPUIRYJTaKVeLXhMZeLabKc`JeYIgWHiTGkQFmOEoLD\ qJCsGBuEBwDDsCFpBHlAJi9Le9Nb8PZ7RW6TS5VP4XL4ZI5`K5\ aL6cN6dO6eQ7gR7hS7iU8kV8lX9nY9o_9p`AraAscAtdBvfBwg\ BxhAvaAtVArO9pH9nA9l4Cm8EmBHnFJnIMnLOoPRoSTpWWpZYp\ a`qebqhdqkbjl`dl_YlYSlWMl } frm:Oblate {; Jim Muth real(z),imag(c) z=real(pixel)+p1, c=flip(imag(pixel))+p2: z=sqr(z)+c, |z| <= 16 } ; END PARAMETER FILE========================================= ; ; ; _______________________________________________ ; Fractint mailing list ; Fractint@mailman.xmission.com ; http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint