; Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:13:14 -0400 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 21-07-09 (Fractal Telescope [No Rating]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20090720231508.2b67d7dc@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- July 21, 2009 (No Rating) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; Despite my questionable mood, there is a fractal for today. Its ; name is "Fractal Telescope" and it's pretty much the same as ; yesterday's fractal. If you enjoyed yesterday's image, you'll ; enjoy today's also; if yesterday's image left you bored, you'll ; be bored again today. But today's image calculates in only 10 ; seconds, so regardless of how you feel, little time will be ; wasted. ; ; If in doubt, view the finished image on the FOTD web site at: ; ; ; ; Monday got off to a bad start here at Fractal Central when FL ; asked why I wrote such a negative discussion for yesterday's ; FOTD and suggested that I should learn to think in a more ; 'positive' manner. (She does read most of the FOTD discussions.) ; ; I told her that I assumed we would never again explore deep ; space because we lack the resources -- it's that simple. And ; being testy, as I always am during the early hours, I launched ; into a lecture about the overblown value of 'positive thinking'. ; 'All the positive thinking in the world will not get men to the ; other planets.' I added. ; ; Then, still annoyed by the original comment, a great old sci-fi ; movie, "The Day the Earth Stood Still", came to mind. In the ; movie, a visitor from an advanced race of space aliens tells us ; either to get our act together and stop fighting, or face total ; destruction. I speculated whether there might be a lot more ; truth in the old movie than we first imagined. ; ; I thought of some kooky conspiracy theories floating around. ; One of them is about a 'Galactic Federation', of the advanced ; races in the galaxy, which is closely monitoring mankind's ; behavior. When they saw us successfully reach the moon, they ; became alarmed and feared we might soon spread our violence to ; the other planets of the solar system and eventually the stars. ; ; To protect themselves from our violence, they secretly ordered ; our government to end the moon landings at once and abandon all ; future plans for manned deep-space exploration. This is why the ; Apollo program was terminated prematurely. The aliens then ; restricted our manned space efforts to low earth orbit, where we ; could do no harm, and kindly permitted us to develop the space ; shuttle to give us something to keep us occupied. We would not ; be permitted to return men to the moon or send men to the other ; planets until we learned how to live in peace among ourselves. ; ; Then, almost believing my own words, I said we have failed ; miserably, and as a result the aliens have ordered us to destroy ; the space station, which was to have been our stepping stone to ; the stars. ; ; 'But hope is in sight,' I added. The aliens will soon appear ; openly and reveal the truth about life throughout the galaxy, ; which we now are aware of only as the various beliefs of the ; religions. Hopefully, when we know the details about things now ; considered supernatural and are given proof that these things ; actually exist, we will have no further reason to fight about ; our different religious beliefs. Soon after that, we will all ; start to love one another, everyone will be equal, no one will ; be in need, etc. etc. etc., and we will be permitted to join the ; Galactic Federation and, as inhabitants of the galaxy, travel to ; the stars. ; ; At this time, FL told me to come to my senses, and I told her ; that she was now the one thinking negatively. She got offended, ; went into a sulk and sulked for most of the day. ; ; Due to much higher humidity, the seasonal temperature of 81F 27C ; here at Fractal Central on Monday felt more unpleasant than the ; same temperature on Sunday, when the air was dry. The fractal ; cats' inner thermometers must have registered the humidity, for ; they spent the afternoon stretched to almost their full lengths ; of about one meter. ; ; With FL sulking, my day was unusually quiet but not all that ; unpleasant. The work was out of the way by mid-afternoon, and I ; spent the rest of the day watching reruns of the moon landing. ; Unless a man lands on the moon before tomorrow around this same ; time, the next FOTD will appear on schedule. Until then, take ; care, and do I really believe in an alien conspiracy to confine ; mankind to the planet earth? That's for the wise to know and ; the others to guess. ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Fractal_Telescope { ; time=0:00:10.06-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basic.frm formulaname=DivideJulibrot passes=1 center-mag=0/0\ /0.591666/1/-31.5/0 params=89.99/0/89.99/0/-1.9119\ 5247/0.64047271/0/0/101/1.5 float=y maxiter=255 inside=0 periodicity=10 colors=000_9RS8TJ7VB6X35ZBAbJEfRJjZNnfSrnWvv_zzz_z\ zKzvKzsKypKxnKwlKujKshKqfKodKmbKk`KiYKgWKeUKcRKaPK\ _MKoYZqYcsYhuXmvXrwWzxWzyWzzVzzVzzUzzUzzUzzDzzDzzD\ ziDTgCUeBUcAUa9U_8UZ7UY6VX5VZ4V`3Va2Vc1Ve0Vf0Vh0Sj\ 0Ok0Lm0Io2Fp4Cr6As8AqAApCAoEAnGBmIClKDkMFjOHiQIhQJ\ gQKfRLfRLeRMdSNcSObSPaTQ`TR`TR_TSZUTYUUYUVXUWWVXVV\ YUVZTW_SW`RWaQXbPXcPXcOYdNYeMYfLZgKZhiDPhAPRn4Qj4Q\ f4Qc4P_4PX4PU4PV4RSYUVg5__Fe`Oe`Xdaedahb_k`YnZWqXV\ tVTwTRzSQLU_NWYPYXR_VTaUVcSXeRZgQ_aN_XK`SH`ME6tf4u\ kC0XKpIaHBaC8dGBfJEiNHkQJmTMpXPr_StbUqPSoCQr9Ku6Fx\ 3AvDLuMWsVfrcppdhNl9KnFHoLEpQCrW9s`od`neTmeLleEmgJ\ niNokSolWpn_qpdrrhrslskascSibS_bSQaSHaSSTTbKUmBVx2\ Ww6_wAbvEevIhuMkuPnnWqgbs`hvU0xNuzHXoC8d8Ma4_Z1lWA\ n`JpeSrj`snVsqPstKswLsvh0SMruMquNqtNqtOpsPpsPorQor\ QoqRnqSnpSmpTmoTmoUlnUlnVkmWkmWklXjlXjkYikZijZij_h\ i_hi`gh`ghaggbfgJmCNiEReH } frm:DivideJulibrot {; draws 4-D slices of DivideBrot Julibrots pix=pixel, u=real(pix), v=imag(pix), a=pi*real(p1*0.0055555555555556), b=pi*imag(p1*0.0055555555555556), g=pi*real(p2*0.0055555555555556), d=pi*imag(p2*0.0055555555555556), ca=cos(a), cb=cos(b), sb=sin(b), cg=cos(g), sg=sin(g), cd=cos(d), sd=sin(d), aa=-(real(p5)-2), bb=(imag(p5)+0.00000000000000000000001), p=u*cg*cd-v*(ca*sb*sg*cd+ca*cb*sd), q=u*cg*sd+v*(ca*cb*cd-ca*sb*sg*sd), r=u*sg+v*ca*sb*cg, s=v*sin(a), c=p+flip(q)+p3, z=r+flip(s)+p4: z=sqr(z)/(z^(aa)+bb)+c |z|< 1000000 } ; END PARAMETER FILE========================================= ; ; ; ; _______________________________________________ ; Fractint mailing list ; Fractint@mailman.xmission.com ; http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint