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Re: [Fractint] Fractal tapes for Alzheimers victims
by RENRAD1＠aol.com 18 Jan '02

18 Jan '02

Back in the 80's, after messing with 16 color fractal shareware for a little, I got a couple of videos from ArtMatrix...a fractal art store that was providing tapes from the Cornell National Supercomputing lab of fractal zooms and animations. I think they had gotten volunteered music for the soundtrack and it was mostly quite nice, interesting and sometimes very soothing to listen to/watch. I'm not sure if the tape listed as "mandelbrot and julia sets" on their web site (www.artmatrix.com) is the same tape with a new cover or a new tape...since it includes the classic "nothing but zooms" half hour segment it may be the same one. And it is only two hours long and i think you mentioned wanting a longer tape. I think your idea of this type of stimulation is at least worth looking into...there must be other videos around. Making your own 6-hour one would be an enormous project. I wonder what the response would be to a request for volunteered fractal animations to edit together....with a minimum length so it's not just a lot of short flashes. hmm it would take a ton of rendering time, though. Well, good luck with your idea, maybe just starting with a two-hour video to see if it holds attention amongst the patients would be a good test. hope this is helpful:) ~renrad

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Fractal tapes for Alzheimers victims
by RAMole＠aol.com 17 Jan '02

17 Jan '02

Hello: I have a friend who is 96, and, remarkably, sound of mind and body. But he must care for his wife, who is disabled and has a memory span of about 15 seconds. Though a sweet and gentle soul, she will ask again and again "Ed, who is this man?" And increasingly, tragically, "Ed, what should I do?" Often she is content to sit with the cat in her lap and watch the squirrels in the back yard. But if there is nothing to hold her attention there, or at night, she more often becomes upset. I am wondering if a tape of fractals might be the answer, a reasonable depth of the Julius Set, candy cane tentacles reaching down infinitely to the sea and cycling slowly through colors, with the palette changed every 30 seconds or so. You will remember when you or your friends first saw this how intensely fascinating it was, and how you wanted to watch for hours (probably plunging deeper, of course, as you grew tired of one picture and wanted another.) Often I glanced up to find it was 3 a.m. Of course we grow tired of it sooner or later. But for a person without a memory, every cycle would be the joy of the first instant of discovery. And remember that such a person is otherwise normal -- she or he has the full capacity for amazement. So we might hope to sit such a person in front of a six-hour videotape of moving fractals and have them watch all day in fascination. And the next day and the next, never tiring. To an extent it seems we're cheating them, but in fact the sadness of their condition comes from the disease not the repetition of the fractals (which is no more than the repetition of the birds in the back yard.) Two questions then: 1. Does anyone know if this has been tried, and with what result? 2. Is there a good commercial tape, a calm one (certainly not psychedelic or frightening)? Or would someone make one for this experiment? (Perhaps just an hour for the first try.) I would myself but just taping the screen with a video camera gets those darn horizontal lines due to the unequal frame rate or whatever it is. This is a somewhat long shot but with four million Alzheimer's victims in the U.S. alone it would be wonderful if it worked, and it might bring great joy into lives otherwise very joyless. Any help appreciated, Alan Mole Ramole(a)aol.com

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Re: [Fractint] Fractal tapes for Alzheimers victims
by Happy Harry 17 Jan '02

17 Jan '02

<delurk mode> I don't usually delurk except to make a wise@ss comment... but I might actually help here. I have used the ATI Xpert at play 98, which has a S-video and VHS video output. Fractint runs very nicely via these outputs... at lower resolutions like 640x480 and 800x600 (higher resolutions do not reproduce well on the TV) This might be a good method... as videotapes are cheap and easy compared to "running" the computer live. <relurk mode> H^) harry bissell >From: Programmer Dude <cjsonnack(a)mmm.com> >Reply-To: fractint(a)mailman.xmission.com >To: fractint(a)mailman.xmission.com >Subject: Re: [Fractint] Fractal tapes for Alzheimers victims >Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:40:51 -0600 > >RAMole(a)aol.com wrote: > > > I am wondering if a tape of fractals might be the answer,... > >Why a tape? Fractint can be made to run with parameters. Perhaps you >can just set up something that invokes a fractal for a while, and then >shuts it down and starts another. > >I'm not very expert with fractint...does it have a "slideshow" mode? > >Failing that, perhaps a simple program to start it up with a given set >of settings, let it run for a while and then kill it and reinvoke it >with another set? > >-- >|_ CJSonnack <Chris(a)Sonnack.com> _____________| How's my programming? | >|_ http://www.Sonnack.com/ ___________________| Call: 1-800-DEV-NULL | >|_____________________________________________|_______________________| > >_______________________________________________ >Fractint mailing list >Fractint(a)mailman.xmission.com >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

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FOTD 17-01-02 (Resetting Fractal [9])
by JimMuth＠aol.com 17 Jan '02

17 Jan '02

FOTD -- January 17, 2002 (Rating 9) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: I rather enjoyed yesterday's "Elephant Ring" fractal. I enjoyed it so much in fact that I decided to do some more exploring today in a similar but easier to reach area. Instead of a tiny midget far out at the tip of the negative stem of the M-set, I chose the grand midget at -1.75. Deep in this midget's East Valley, I chose a filament, a feature that does not exist in the full M-set, and found a smaller midget on it. When I reached this midget, I chose a filament in its northwest suburbs and zoomed in until I found a much smaller midget, which turned out to be the midget in today's image. The elephants in today's image, like those in yesterday's image, come in well defined rings. The outer ring consists of 16 of them, the next ring inside has 32 elephants. But the third ring holds only 8 features, and these features do not appear to be composed of elephants. The inwardly increasing series has reset itself back to 8. This resetting inspired the name "Resetting Fractal". This resetting happens because the barely-visible midget at the center of today's image does not belong to the midget family of the M-set itself, but rather to the family of a larger midget. Actually, the larger midget belongs to the family of a still larger midget -- the midget at -1.75 on the negative stem of the M-set, and the resetting that is visible in the image is the second such resetting on the way down toward the midget in the image. I decided to rate today's effort at a 9. Yesterday's FOTD rated an 8, and today's is marginally better, which I suppose justifies the rating of a rare and lofty 9. Curiously, the basic logmap=0 coloring method, which gives a band to every single iteration, works best with today's image. I suppose nothing justifies the 2-3/4 hours required on my clunky machine to render the image from the parameter file. (A new FOTD machine, as well as pictures of the dynamic duo of cats, may appear at Fractal Central in the not-too-distant future.) The near-unending wait to see the image can be avoided by giving Scott a chance to do the rendering, and when he is finished, by downloading the image from his web site at: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> The second web site, the one run by Paul Lee, still sits idle, and Paul's whereabouts remains a mystery. The weather Wednesday here at Fractal Central was mostly cloudy and chilly, with a high temperature of 43F 6C and enough wind to keep the cats indoors. Actually, the winter so far has been one of the mildest on record, and this makes it even harder for the fractal cats to understand why they can't be comfortable in the outdoors. If we were having the normal temperatures in the 20'sF (around -5C), with snow on the ground, it would be so obviously uncomfortable that the cats would not even think of going outside. As it is, they kind of hold me responsible for their modicum of discomfort. As for me, it's late morning, and I've got a bit of work that needs to be done. The time has come to get started on the job. So until my next appearance, take care, and be ever alert for those new and better fractals. Jim Muth jamth(a)mindspring.com jimmuth(a)aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Resetting_Fractal { ; time=2:49:57.06--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=mandel passes=1 center-mag=-1.7497\ 377493558715265721168/-5.065278269355397330831e-5/\ 1.567589e+021/1/-70/-1.52627910310343395e-012 params=0/0 float=y maxiter=12000 bailout=16 inside=0 colors=000VfSVdOUcMUbJRcIQcHOcFNcEMcDKcBJcAIc8Fd7E\ d6Dd4Bd3Ad28d07d06d0Ai0En0Is0Mw0Qz2Uz2Yz3az3cz3iBz\ jDzjGzjJyjLwjOvjRukTrkWqkZok`nkcmkfknbeqZ_rVVuRQvO\ KyKEzG8zC3z90z90zC0vJ6qPDmWIgbObhVZo_UvfOzmKzrMzsN\ huOivQkwRlySnzUozVpzXrzYszYvz_xzazubzqezkfzfgzbjzY\ kzSmzOozJqzErzAqzEozHnzJmzMkzOjyRiyUgxXfxZewacwcbv\ favi_tkZtn_niaheacabZXcTScOOeJJfDFf9BgBFgDJiGNiHRj\ KVjNZkPbkRfmTjmWnnZrn_vo`qq`kq`frbarbXsbRucMucHvcB\ vb6wa0w`0v_0vZ0v_0va0vc0ve0vg0vh0vi0vj0vk0vl0vm0un\ 2uo7upDuqHurMusRutVuu_uveuwisxgrygrzfqzfqxeoveosen\ pcmncmkbkhbkfajcaj`agbbecbbdcafcZgcXheVieSkfQlfOnf\ KofIpeHrcFsbEsaDr_BpZAoY8nX2lV0kU0nY0pZ0rZ0sZ0v_0w\ _3x_4za7za8zaBzbDzbFzbHzcJzcKzcNzeOzeRyeSteWiaZZYa\ TU_NRZIQYGOXDNWDMVDKUDJTDISDIRDHQDFPDEODDODBPDAQDA\ SDDUDEWDFYDH_EIaFJcGKfIMhKNkNOnOUoP_oRfoSmnTsmVznW\ zapzaoz_nzZlzZkzYizYhzXgz } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================

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Fuzzy Multivalued Logic Basis of Fractals and Chaos
by Osher Doctorow 17 Jan '02

17 Jan '02

Since I have been establishing the fuzzy multivalued logical basis of not only mathematics but physics and other sciences since 1980, it is not too surprising to find that chaos and fractals are based on fuzzy multivalued logic. See fairly detailed abstracts of 69 of my papers (publications, papers presented at conferences, technical reports, internet contributions) at http://www.logic.univie.ac.at, Institute for Logic of the University of Vienna (after accessing that site, select in this exact order: 1. ABSTRACT SERVER, then 2. BY AUTHOR, then 3. my name). Although I did not discover the fuzzy multivalued logics mentioned below, I and my wife Marleen J. Doctorow Ph.D. discovered most of their applications that you will read below. The 3 types of fuzzy multivalued logics (Lukaciewicz or its predicate extension Rational Pavelka, Product/Goguen, and Godel) correspond to the three types of events in the physical universe, respectively: Memory (M), Semi-Memory (S), and Non-Memory (N). Remarkably, they also correspond respectively to Logic-Based Probability (LBP - which subtracts probabilities), Bayesian Conditional Probability (BCP - which divides probabilities), and Independent Probability-Statistics (IPS - which multiples probabilities) which are the three types of probability concerned with either the influence or the dependence of events/processes on each other. Even more remarkably, they also correspond respectively to events/processes which are influenced by 2 or more previous times (human memory/consciousness/perception, quantum entanglement, spherical expansion-contraction as in radiation from a point source and the expansion aspect of the universe, viscoelastic material memory), exactly one previous time (Markov chains and Markov processes, games like chess in which the present move depends only on the state of the board on the previous move), or no previous time (tosses of two fair coins, two dice, etc.). To summarize very succinctly what the fuzzy multivalued logical basis of chaos and fractals is, it is sufficient to say that the basis is Lukaciewicz or its extension Rational Pavelka fuzzy multivalued logic. This is because LBP turns out to correspond also to rare or extremely rare events/processes, and such events/processes (events for short) in mathematics are respectively modeled, at least for continuous random variables which correspond to them, by events of probability epsilon (very small positive number) or 0. Fractals in general have probability and for bounded fractals Lebesgue measure 0. Contrary to erroneous opinions of many people, events of probability 0 are not impossible - in fact, they occur *all the time*. This goes back to Lebesgue measure, which is used in Lebesgue integration, which is 0 for all n-k dimensional subsets of Euclidean and Euclidean-like spaces of dimension n where k = 1, 2, ..., n. For example, a single point or a single line or curve or even a plane or surface (which are 2-dimensional automatically) in 3 dimensional space or 3 + 1 dimensional spacetime (3 spatial and one time dimensions) have Lebesgue measure and hence continuous probability 0 if a continuous random variable can be found on the region in question - or, to put it another way, if a continuous probability distribution (such as the normal/Gaussian) is found on a volume of space(-time) enclosing the events in question. Likewise a single point in time has probability 0 under the above assumptions, so that extremely rare events like catastrophes or a particular person winning a lottery have probability 0 with the above assumptions. If the space is 2 dimensional, then 0 and 1 dimensional bounded objects have probability and Lebesgue measure 0 under the above assumptions. It must be pointed out that Julia and Mandelbrot sets and hence fractals and chaos are generally boundaries of regions, and the boundary of a 3 or 2 dimensional region of Euclidean type has lower dimension than the space (even the complex plane can be regarded as of Euclidean type although its multiplication and conjugates are quite different from real Euclidean operations). It also must be pointed out that events of probability 0 in LBP have MAXIMUM INFLUENCE on other events, which is not necessarily true for BCP and IPS, but that other events in LBP may also have *maximum influence*. However, this has the unusual consequence that fractals and chaos are among the events/processes/objects which have maximum influence on other events. This means, in turn, that fractals and chaos should be applicable to physics and engineering not only occasionally as in NASA's use of controlled chaos in a recent space scenario, but is a large variety of circumstances. Of course, similar results should hold for life and behavior sciences, etc. Finally, and most remarkably of all perhaps, fractals and chaos belong to the Memory (M) part of the universe. This puts them alongside human memory/consciousness/perception, spherically expanding/contracting motion such as radiation from a point source and the universe with respect to its expansion, quantum entanglement, viscoelastic material memory, most biological processes, etc. This opens up several important areas for research, including fractal and chaotic applications to the other things like human memory mentioned above, since such events can be expected to either intersect or be contained in each other (or one contained in the other). What about the origins of fractals and chaos in iteration of functions on a computer? Iteration and similar methods with algorithms certainly produce fractals and chaos, but both mathematically and in view of the above paragraphs what is key to this process is the fact that with iteration the function involved usually approaches an EQUATION OF A CURVE/CURVES/ISOLATED POINT or something which is extremely irregular but which mathematically is like a curve/curves/isolated point. This has to do with the nature of limits in a real analysis/calculus sense and fixed points and so on. Whether there exists a generalization of fractals in which not the same function but different functions are used *iteratively* (each new function replaces the same-function iterate) is an interesting open question as far as I know. Aczel and Dhombres and their colleagues have done some work in this area, summarized in Cambridge University Press volumes of the last 15 years. Osher Doctorow

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Hopelessly Trying Trying To Satisfy An Unreasonable Customer's Impossible Claims - He Even Sent Me The Nimba Virus!
by Tony Parker 17 Jan '02

17 Jan '02

Mr. David Piekarczyk: I have tried to be reasonable and fair with you from the outset. Fairness and reason are obviously lost on you. You have seen fit to be a problematic customer from the very beginning and I have tolerated and bent over backwards in order to deal with you. 1.) It was you who sent me a nimda 32 virus embedded in your jpg file which you sent directly to my personal computer despite my repeated requests to the contrary, and nearly destroyed my pc, along with the work of several other fractalists whose work was waitng to be printed. Even though I had specifically asked people not to send files to me directly to my personal PC, yet you insisted in sending the virus infect file toto my personal PC anyway and destroyed my PC. Even then I still gave you the benefit of doubt, and assumed that you had inadvertently, accidentally, and innocently passed the virus on to me. 2.) I sent you an accurate, beautiful, pristine, mint, perfect quality virginal print of your image file via USPS Priority Mail Insured, Confirmed Delivery. If you had actually received a print that was so badly damaged as the print I now have in my possession, why did you not describe the damage as damage that had occurred in transit? If you had been honest with me and had accurately described the damage as "damaged in transit", we would have been able to file the proper claim with the USPS. Instead you proceeded to claim that there had been production flaws, and printing errors that you claimed were my fault and needed rectifying. I have quite clearly stated that I will redo any print that is not properly produced and where the fault lies with me, so I quite promptly & honorably asked you to return the print to me for examination and possible replacement. Since you now have sent the print to me by UPS, we have lost our opportunity to make a claim with the USPS, as they will quite rightly claim that the damage may have occured elsewhere. 2.) Upon my examination of the undamaged parts of the print and careful comparison with the jpg that you sent me, I could see no production flaws or printing errors. It was as good a rendition of your jpg as any that I have supplied to other fractalists. I was however shocked at the amount of manhandling, violent damage and abuse that the print had received. Both the print and the wrapping paper had been scratched, scuffed, marked, abused. and soiled on both sides!. In some places the inks had been completely scraped off the paper. There is no way I would ever have sent you a print so badly damaged. 3.) I know I supplied to you a perfect print, wrapped in protective paper, and sealed in a rigid heavy duty cardboard mailing tube. The print was either damaged in transit, or it was damaged after it was delivered to you. 4.) I'm not going to waste too much of my time debating your possible inner hidden intentions & motives; be it buyers remorse, self-destructive malice, or just plain & simple dishonesty. The one fact is clear; you have completely bungled any honest chance for a legitmate claim that would justify my replacing your print gratis. 5.) Had you accurately, clearly, and honestly described the damage, as it really was, any legitimate claim for "damaged in transit" could have been quickly handled by the USPS, and I would have promptly printed up your replacement print as soon as I received the claim processing receipt from the USPS. 6.) If you had a legitimate claim on the grounds of faulty workmanship on my part, then where did all the "violent" physical damage, abuse, and soiling come from? The "Quality of The Work" notwithstanding, The print should still be in a pristine, mint, virginal, un-abused, unscuffed, unscratched, un-abused, undamaged, and "Brand new" condition. Somehow neither version of your story either makes any sense, adds up, or rings true. Period. 7.) If you want me to redo the print, fine I will redo it. But not gratis. 8.) Please allow me to remind you of my terms and conditions which I posted to you and publicly posted on several mail lists. "All waranties as to workmanship are voided if the print is changed, modified or damaged in any way." 9.) Threatening me will not produce the results that you want. 10.) I am also returning to you your 430 kb file entitled face1.jpg cleaned, disinfected, & minus the Nimda Virus that you saw fit to inflict on me! This hopefully will confirm that we are indeed comparing apples to apples, and that you did not mistakeningly send me the wrong file. Please rememebr that I repeatedly told you that your file should be at least 700Kb-1meg at the very minimum, yet despite everything I still produced excellent reults. You will notice in your image file there are indeed a multitude of "light beige" to "white" horizontal and vertical areas where there would be extremely fine & light deposits of ink in an exact rendition of the original image. Despite the obvious physical damge has been inflicted to the print by "persons unknown". The print I sent you was an excellent and accurate rendition of that image file. T G Parker

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FOTD 16-01-02 (Elephant Ring [8])
by JimMuth＠aol.com 16 Jan '02

16 Jan '02

FOTD -- January 16, 2002 (Rating 8) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's image lies in the center column of yesterday's image, which was a side view of East Valley, though today's image is viewed from an entirely different angle. Today's view is in the Mandelbrot direction. The East Valley areas of all midgets are filled with elephant- like features. In today's image, the elephants appear as a ring of 16 animals surrounding the midget. The individual animals are a bit hard to distinguish, since the trunks of the elephants appear to merge with the tails of the ones in front. I named the image "Elephant Ring" because of this ring of Pachyderms. Today's image is one of the easiest to color that I have yet seen. Almost any palette works with it. This ease of coloring justifies the rating of 8. The magnitude of today's image lies well beyond the point where arbitrary precision math becomes necessary. It is therefore a very slow one, requiring over two hours to render on my machine. The long wait can be bypassed by downloading the completed image from Scott's web site at: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> But before visiting, give Scott a chance to render and post the image. I will not include Paul Lee's web address until his site once again becomes active. With a high temperature of 52F 11C, Tuesday's weather here at Fractal Central was mild enough, but there was too little sun and too much wind to make the fractal cats happy. After spending only 10 minutes outdoors, they retired to their chosen resting places to sleep the day away. The fractal cats have happy lives. It's too bad they don't realize it. As for me, my life will be happier when the day's work is out of the way and I can return to fractal land to find a new and greater fractal for tomorrow (if possible). Until then, take care, and keep striving. Jim Muth jamth(a)mindspring.com jimmuth(a)aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Elephant_Ring { ; time=2:18:34.13--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=mandel passes=1 center-mag=-1.9990\ 9562376641914229328597/-6.84088122997079306e-10/6.\ 31473e+021/1/32.5/-1.23373533611470521e-014 params=0/0 float=y maxiter=24000 bailout=16 inside=0 colors=000KUzKUzKUzKUzKUzKUzKUzKUzKUzKUzKUzKUzK1SK\ 1UM1WO1YQ1_S1aU1cW1eY5g_9iaDkcHgeLcgP_iSWkWRm_NocJ\ qgFskBuo7wr3ysBytJytRzuZzvfzvnyukxtiwsfvrduqatq_sp\ YroVqnTpmQolOnlMlkNjkNikOgjOfjOdjPbiPaiP_iQZiQXhQV\ hRUhRSgRRgSPgSNfSMfTKfTJfTHaPGXMESIDNFCIBAD8984841\ 7M26c35t3Ap7FlBJhFOdIT`MXXQaTUfPXjL`oHdtDhx9kvCjtE\ jrHjpJjnLjlOjjQjhSjfVidXibZi`aiZciXeiVhiTjiSli_YOf\ J3gI4hI4iI4iH4jH4kH4kG4lG4mG4nF4nF4oF4pE5pE5qE5rD5\ sD5sD5tC5uC5uC5vB5wB5rB5nDHhEZcGfZHoUJnILnJOmJRmKU\ lKXlL_kLbkLekMclNalN`mOZmOYnPWnQVoQUoRUpRTpSTpTSqT\ RqURrUQrVQsWPsWPtXOtXOuYNuYNuUKWRI6SGCTFHUEMVDRWCW\ XBaYAfZ9k_8p`7ua6z_8wZAtXCrWEoUGmTHjRJhQLePNbNP`MR\ YKSWJUTHWRGYOF_LDaJCbGAdE9fB7h96j65k4OkJNeHM`FLWEK\ RCJLAIG9HB7G66H8HH9SIBbICmJDkJEiJFgJGfJGdKHbKI`KJ_\ KJYKKWKLVLMTLNRLNPLOOLPMMQKWDbYCc_BeaAfcAge9hg8ii7\ kk6lm5mo4nq3ps2qu1rw0sy0t } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================

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FOTD 15-01-02 (Flying Gateway [4])
by JimMuth＠aol.com 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

FOTD -- January 15, 2002 (Rating 4) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's image is yet another view of the same Julibrot hole that appeared in the past three FOTD's. However, this view is centered on a different point of the Julibrot hole. The three previous slices cut the hole through its main bud, while today's slice cuts through the East Valley area. This particular slice resembles nothing as much as a flying gateway with its two doors open. In fact, I named the image "Flying Gateway". I have no idea what the open gateway might lead to, though I expect it is a dead end. Due to the dead end perhaps, today's image rates another lowly 4. The center pillar that separates the two open doors of today's image is actually the East Valley of the Mandelbrot-midget aspect of this Julibrot hole. And like all east valleys, it is infested with elephants. Some of these elephants are real work-horses, or work-elephants in this case, and tomorrow's FOTD will feature a few of these hard-working pachyderms. After that, it will be back to the M-Mix4 midgets. Perhaps the best feature of today's image is its 50-second render time. If the image is below average, I feel it's best to keep the render time short. The rendering can be avoided entirely by downloading the finished image from either: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> or <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> With a temperature of 47F 8C, the fractal weather today here at Fractal Central was mild enough -- the entire winter has been mild -- but the wind was blowing, and that kept the fractal cats safely ensconced indoors. They were surprisingly good natured about their confinement however, even getting into a playful tussle under the table. It's now time to check out that latest e-mail letter. Apparently, someone in Nigeria has several million dollars of left-over petroleum money that they want to park in my bank account. How lucky can one person be! My greed is showing! I get to keep 1/3 of the money! As long as they don't ask me to put up 'good faith' money, or ask for my personal financial information, which they certainly will do, I could be a millionaire within a week. Until the next FOTD venture into the fourth dimension, which will come in 24 hours, take care, and don't get scammed by such scams. Jim Muth jamth(a)mindspring.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ Flying_Gateway { ; time=0:00:49.98--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=multirot-XZ-YW-new center-mag=-0.00000\ 003212632880/+0.0/4874132/0.714/-90/0 params=90/0/2/0/-1.99909561/0/-1.99909561/0 float=y maxiter=5000 inside=0 logmap=31 passes=t colors=000ZUoYToXTnWTnVTmUTmTTlSTlRTkQTkPTjOTjNTiM\ SiLRhKQgJPfJOeINdIMcHLbHKaGJ`GI_FHZFGYEFXEEWDEVDCU\ CATF6QFDPAKQ4SP0ZO0dV0l`0rf0sc0s`0uY0uV0vS0vP0xM0x\ J0yG0yD0zA0z70z40z3Cv0Yr0sl0zg0za0zX0zS0zM0zI3zJ4z\ L6zM7zO9zOAzPCzQDzSFyTGxTGsVLoVOjXQfXTaXYYY`TYcPYf\ L_jG_mC`p7`s3`x0az0az0az0Pz0Cz0Az09z07z06z04z13z31\ z41zdCVzL0zJ0yI0rG0jG4cF7XDCPDGICLAAP3AS4IO6OL7VI9\ `DAgACm7Cs4Io7Ol9TiC_fDdcGj`IoYJjVLgSMcPO`MOYJPTGQ\ QDQMASJ7TG4TC1V90X60XJ0OV0GL69Q39X09a090zA6j9IT9VC\ 9z0Or0GzDzzAzz7ux6lu3dp0Xm0Pi0Gu9fr6`o3Vm1Pj0Jg0DJ\ D0P91T43Y16a07aOjcG`d9Sf1IxPmmjLjYIiLFg7CdYJfSIfOG\ fIFfDDf9CGYL0XF7c7Oi0co0su0um0vf0v_3xS7yLDyDIz6Oz0\ SuAVpJXlSYf`_ai`Yradsdlsgssjzvmzzpzzszzouzjjzf`zaQ\ zYGzVPz_Xzcczgjzjdzg_zfTzcOzaIz_CzYJzXPzXVzV`zVgzV\ mzTszTyzTzzYzzazzfzzjzzozzszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzziz\ iIzO0z1czVczMczDzz4zzGzzG } frm:multirot-XZ-YW-new {; Jim Muth ; 0,0=para, 90,0=obl, 0,90=elip, 90,90=rect e=exp(flip(real(p1*.01745329251994))), f=exp(flip(imag(p1*.01745329251994))), z=f*real(pixel)+p3, c=e*imag(pixel)+p4: z=z^(p2)+c, |z| <= 36 } END 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE==================================

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Fractal apple
by Franktal Gallery 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

A tempting red apple. Yum ! Apple { ; Yum ! ; palette is 'lindaa09' by Linda Allison reset=2000 type=formula formulafile=0.frm formulaname=s2 center-mag=+0.41998773805563630/+0.34313293191838800/48.57798/2.9039/120\ .535/39.213 params=0.7898387724015172/-1.17936639211472/0/0 float=y maxiter=15000 logmap=11 colors=800<30>n00p00q00<2>u00w00v00<32>900800600<2>200000020050<5>OSSSWW\ W_`<3>los<8>ZXSYVPWTL<2>SNCQL9PK8QK6<8>jaOlcQneS<3>xn_<8>dXJaVH_TF<2>TN9\ RL7PJ7PK8<8>cdaefdghg<3>nru<8>LPOIMKEJG<3>050130200100000<9>073083093094\ 0A40B40C5<9>6LH7MI8NK<2>AQNBRPBRO<5>7LH6KF5JE<2>3GA3F93F9<23>13213212212\ 1111000<5>800 } frm:s2 { z=c=pixel rp=real(p1) rq=real(p2-c): z=z*z^rp+rq |z|<4 } Regards, Miguel Fliguer - Buenos Aires, Argentina Franktal Gallery - http://www.geocities.com/franktal2002 _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

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Overlay experiment
by Franktal Gallery 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

This is the result of a freaky genetic experiment where I overlapped two pictures and a koala bear was born ! The 'whitesq' feature is pretty interesting. I used a simple formula which switches between two parameters for the inicialization. Carefully choosing the points to get Y-axis symmetry, can lead to interesting Rorschach-like images. koala { ; overlay experiment, try it at 1024x768 or better ; about 1' elapsed time ; pallete is 'lindaa09' by Linda Allison reset=2000 type=formula formulafile=0.par formulaname=cg passes=1 center-mag=-0.802844/0.000320534/32.05128/1/-90 params=-0.74726/0.1409/-0.74726/-0.1409 float=y maxiter=15000 colors=800KON<3>_cecgigknlos<8>ZXSYVPWTL<2>SNCQL9PK8QK6<8>jaOlcQneS<3>xn\ _<8>dXJaVH_TF<2>TN9RL7PJ7PK8<5>ZYS`_VabZ<3>ikkkmnlprnru<4>YabVZZSWW<3>EJ\ GBGC7C8494050130200100<2>011021031042042<3>0730830930940A4<2>1D61E72F9<6\ >6LH7MI8NK<2>AQNBRPBRO<5>7LH6KF5JE<2>3GA3F93F9<23>132132122121111000<30>\ f00g00h00<3>n00p00q00<2>u00w00v00<32>900800600<2>200000020050<3>GKI } frm:cg {; Miguel Fliguer - julia overlay z=pixel IF (whitesq) c=p1 ELSE c=p2 ENDIF : z=z*z+c |z|<4 } Regards, Miguel Franktal Gallery - http://www.geocities.com/franktal2002 _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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