; Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:33:59 -0400 ; ; To: fractint@mailman.xmission.com ; ; From: Jim Muth ; Reply-To: Fractint and General Fractals Discussion ; ; ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 29-04-09 (Mystical Rectangle [?]) ; ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20090428193444.2a6f7142@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- April 29, 2009 (Rating ?) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; Tuesday was interesting here at Fractal Central. FL and I were ; at breakfast with the TV playing softly in the background, when ; FL suddenly asked, "are we going to die?" Without much thought, ; I answered, "Of course," and FL exclaimed something like 'oh my ; God!' I was reading the paper, and did not realize that the ; quarter-hourly swine-flu scare was being hyped on the TV morning ; news show and she was referring to the flu scare. ; ; When I realized what she was talking about, I assured her that ; the whole doomsday atmosphere was created to get people to worry ; so that they would spend more time watching the news channels ; and thereby enable the stations to charge more for their adver- ; tising. But the whole thing really started my philosophical ; juices flowing. I love mysteries, and next to the fourth dimen- ; sion, death must be the biggest mystery of all, so expect some ; morbid musings in the not too distant future. ; ; A more immediate concern is how to rate today's fractal. After ; at least 2 minutes of contemplation, I realized that I would ; never be able to honestly rate the latest appearance of my old ; friend, the rectangle in the Z^(2.003) Julibrot, so I rated it ; as a question mark. ; ; The name "Mystical Rectangle" refers to the mystery of trying to ; determine the true four-dimensional shape of the object that is ; rectangular in only two of its four dimensions. ; ; Today's orientation is very close to the Julia direction, just ; far enough removed to make the scene interesting. I'm not sure ; what slices the JulibrotZpwr formula cuts in Julibrot, but I ; have never found similar slices with any of the other four-dimen- ; sional formulas. ; ; The calculation time of 1-1/4 minutes is very fast. Equally ; fast is the trip to view the finished image on the FOTD web site ; at: ; ; ; ; The April heat wave continued here at Fractal Central on Tues- ; day. The fractal cats made the most of things by avoiding the ; hot sun and temperature of 90F 32C. The humidity remained low ; however, so the cats were reasonably happy. My day started ; slow, but turned busy when an unexpected job arrived around 10am. ; ; Crises notwithstanding, the next FOTD fractal will be posted in ; 24 hours. Until then, take care, and why worry about the flu, ; when the disease that will kill everyone is already out there. ; It is not yet fully defined, but it is 100-percent fatal and ; everyone is certain to contract it and die of it. Its name is ; 'something'. (Don't blame me for mentioning the unpleasant and ; inescapable truth! I didn't make things this way. The Big Guy ; up in the sky did it, so blame Him.) ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Mystical_Rectangle { ; time=0:01:14.64-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basic.frm formulaname=JulibrotZpwr passes=1 periodicity=10 center-mag=-0.000545676/+0.07365904/101.6427/1/19/0 params=2.003/0/-1.7435/0.0003/-0.0015/0.0005 float=y maxiter=2800 inside=255 logmap=56 colors=000A0NA0NA0NA0PA2PA4PA6P48R0AR0CR0ER0GP0HR0\ JT0LV0NX0PZ0R`0Tb2Td6Ve8XgAZiC`iEbkGdmHeoJeqNgsPiu\ RkvTmxVozXqzZszbvzkszuquzokzkbziRzOHz58zE0zM0zP0zS\ 0zV6ucCkcHkcNkJRUHXUGbUEgUCmUAsU2mU8cUEcUHcUNcuTzz\ Xzzdzzkzzqzzvzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\ vzuuzkszbozZmzXkzTizRgzPgzNgzLgzJzzHzzGzzEzzCzzAzz\ 8zz6zz4zz2zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0z\ z0zz0zz0iz2ez8bzCXzHzzLzxRzuVzq`EodAki6im8zoAzoAzo\ CzqCzqEzqEzsGzsGzsHzuHzuJzuJzuLzvLzvNzvNzxPzxPzxRz\ zRzzTzzLzzTzz`zugzmmzguzbzzVzzPzzRzzJzeEzg6qk0io0z\ i0bq00x00v00u00s00s00q00o04o06m0Ak0zi0zi0zz0zz0zz0\ zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0uz2qz0mZ0id0ei0bo0Zu0Vz\ 0Rz0Nz0Hz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz4zz6zzNzsdzdszeuzguziuz\ kuzmuzouzou0qu2su2uu4vu6xu8zuAzuCzuEzuGzuHzuJzuNzx\ JzuHzsGzoEzmCzk8zg6ze4xb2v`0uZ0sV0zT0zR0zN0zLozPqz\ NuzLzzJvzLszLozLkzLezNJAJ } frm:JulibrotZpwr {; Jim Muth ; Draws oblique slices of order n Julibrot Figure ; P1 defines power of Z, P2 sets center of slice ; P3 sets angle of slice z=pixel, c=p2+(pixel*p3): z=z^p1+c, |z| <= 100 } ; END PARAMETER FILE========================================= ; ; ; ; _______________________________________________ ; Fractint mailing list ; Fractint@mailman.xmission.com ; http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint