; Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:27:51 -0400 ; From: Jim Muth ; Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 19-04-10 (Things and Things [6]) ; Id: <1.5.4.16.20100418222949.2b9fa15e@pop.mindspring.com> ; --------- ; ; FOTD -- April 19, 2010 (Rating 6) ; ; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: ; ; Today's image came about when I entered whimsically chosen ; values into the MandAutoCritInZ formula ; ; If something looks wrong with the image, it's no illusion. Some- ; thing actually is wrong with it. The image does not exist. It ; has been evaporated and a ghostly pseudo-image substituted in ; its place. The entire scene consists of trapped 'inside' points ; made visible by the active 'bof61' inside fill, which I think ; colors the points according to the number of the iteration that ; brings the points closest to the origin of the parent. ; ; I don't know how close the closest point in today's image comes ; to the 0,0 origin point of the parent, but the real value of the ; scene's location is around -962, with an imaginary value around ; 25. By defining another point as the origin of the parent, I ; could probably get a totally different image, but this is some- ; thing I'll try on another day. ; ; As is apparent from the coordinates, the parent fractal is ; grossly enlarged. With its bays, buds and chaos, it vaguely ; resembles a Mandelbrot set, but there the resemblance ends. ; Today's parent fractal is near 1000 times the size of the ; classic M-set, and the amount of chaotic debris around it is ; vastly increased. Today's scene is located in the debris on ; the western extremity of the parent. ; ; The image shows a curious pattern, which for a change, is in ; no way associated with a minibrot. The coloring is entirely ; created by the bof61 inside fill. The other non-flat inside ; fills make other images of this same scene, though none equal ; the image created by the bof61 fill. ; ; I rated the image at a 6 because I feel it falls short of the ; past few days' FOTD images. The name "Things and Things" is a ; spoof on the name of one of those trendy but nearly useless ; 'gift' shops that just opened in town. ; ; The calculation time of under 5 minutes will bring some relief ; to the yearning fractal heart. Even more relief may be found ; on the FOTD web site at: ; ; ; ; where the finished image is or soon will be posted. ; ; Sunday was hardly spring-like here at Fractal Central. The ; heavy clouds, brisk winds and temperature of 50F 10C made it ; feel more like November than April. The fractal cats were ; slightly chilly in the morning, but started chasing one another ; up and down the long hallway around lunch time, and then seemed ; content for the rest of the day. Meanwhile, my day was average. ; ; The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours. Until then, take ; care, and if God is imaginary, then he must exist as a model in ; the minds of those who believe. The question is 'how real are ; things that exist as models in the mind'. Quantum physicists ; tell us that our concept of atoms is basically a mental model, ; and I see no one questioning the existence of atoms. (Hmmm, do ; I see a spate of philosophizing about God starting to build?) ; ; ; Jim Muth ; jamth@mindspring.com ; jimmuth@aol.com ; ; ; START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Things_and_Things { ; time=0:04:53.72-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=recip passes=t center-mag=-961.6751970513/+25.4920570168/62563/1/\ -5/0 params=-1.75/-1.01/-0.175/-11.1/0/1e+100/0/0 float=y maxiter=1600 inside=bof61 periodicity=6 colors=0008Xm9WmA`mAasBdzCguCnzDjzEtzEnzFxzGyzGzzM\ zzRLOW3GT6IR8KPBLNDNLGPJIQGLSENUCQVASX8VZ6X_9_bCbe\ FdhHgkKinNlqPntMlqKjnIhkGfhEdeCbbA`_8ZX6XU8US9SQBP\ OCNMELLNFUHGHIDFKBEL9CN6AO48P27IIDCYJ6mO9jMCgKEeIH\ bGK`EMYDPVBST9UQ7XO5_L3aJ2dH8gGEjEKmDQpCWlFYiIZfK`\ cNa`QcXSdUVfRXgO_iLbjHdlEgmBjo8lp5or2qs4no6ll7ii9g\ fBdcCb`E_YjeWjcXj`YjYYjWZjT_jR_jO`jMajJajGbjEcjBcj\ 9dj6ej4el8emCenGeoKepOeqSerVetZeubevfewjexneyrezue\ xqbvm_tjXsfUqbRo_OmWLlSIjPFhLCfH9eE6bC9ZACW8ES6HP4\ KL2NI1PN3XS4dX5la6tdFpfOmhXjjeflncnw`jsagpacma`jaX\ gaUdaTebSebRebQecPecOecMhYNecNchOanO_sOYxcccLWvKVu\ JUuITtHSs8ZzGRsVGtOJlHLdANXMSOXWGUXJSYLQYNNZPLZRJ_\ TRF_H_VaCq7tRp7aqB`rF_sJZsMZtQYuUXuXXCcdBbcBacB_cA\ ZbAYb9Xa9Wa9Ua8T`8S`7R_7Q_7P_7QY7RX7SW7TV7UU7VT7WS\ 7XR7YQ7ZP7_O7`M7aL7bK7cJ7dI7eH7fG7gF7hE7iD7jCCiDGh\ EKhFOgGTfHXfI`eJddKUKUlYF } 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 ;