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Color maps
by Raymond Filiatreault 16 Mar '02

16 Mar '02

Hi, Do you have any interest in generating your own color maps for Fractint or any of the other fractal programs using the same compatible maps? FintMap for Windows 95/98, developed originally for my own use, has been greatly improved through the gracious input and "BETA" testing from Paul N. Lee. An extensive Help file is also provided. If you wish to give it a try, you can download the zipped file FintMap_1-22.zip from: http://66.39.71.195/Software/ It's only 81 Kb, most of it being the Help file. The .exe file is small (but powerful) because it is written in assembler. Any comment, good, bad or indifferent, can be posted here or sent directly to me. Any significant suggestion to improve it still more will be given serious consideration for any future version. Respectfully, Raymond _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

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FOTD 15-03-02 (The Primary Colors [5])
by JimMuth＠aol.com 15 Mar '02

15 Mar '02

FOTD -- March 15, 2002 (Rating 5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Sometime around the 6th grade I learned about the seven colors of the rainbow. Those colors were red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Being a scientifically minded young fellow, I found this quite interesting, and eagerly waited for the next rainbow to appear. Some time later, a rainbow did appear. But where were those seven colors? I saw lots of red, almost no orange or yellow, some green, but not a trace of the blue, indigo or violet. And what of colors such as brown, pink, purple, gold, etc.? Where did those colors fit into the rainbow? I soon discovered that brown, pink, purple, and gold are not spectral colors, though the absence of yellow and blue in the natural bow remained a puzzle. I think it was the next year that I learned about infra-red and ultra-violet light. Were those 'colors' actually there in the sky, lurking invisibly on both sides of the visible bow? It was not until many years later, when I photographed rainbows in infra-red and ultra-violet light, that I discovered the answer. Yes, I found that infra-red and ultra-violet rainbows do indeed exist. The infra-red bow is quite sharp, while the ultra-violet bow is diffuse and far less obvious. Since today's image is composed of strong primary colors, I named it "The Primary Colors". Since it neither pleases nor disappoints me, I have rated it an average 5. The render time of 28 minutes is a bit slow for an average image. I therefore recommend downloading the GIF file of the image from: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> or from: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> The weather Thursday here at Fractal Central was quite pleasant, with lots of sun and a temperature of 66F 19C. These conditions made for very happy cats, who simply oozed joy as they romped in the yard, trying to deceive themselves that they were still able to catch one of the squirrels that intermittently teased them. As for me, I'm about at the 30 percent stage in the preparation of the soon-to-appear FOTD-CD. This means that I have about twice as much yet to do as I have already done. The progress is about as expected. My present schedule of all day on the CD and 1/2 day once every 3 days on the ongoing FOTD is keeping things pretty much on schedule. Look for the next FOTD on Monday, the 18th of March. Until then take care, and don't get fractally congested. Jim Muth jamth(a)mindspring.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ The_Primary_Colors { ; time=0:28:49.26--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=ident passes=1 center-mag=-0.25269922649259500/+2.527784825830010\ 00/5.850469e+009/1/-85.0001951243039429/-0.0030271\ 9353218186549 params=0.0002/6/6/-1/0/0 float=y maxiter=3800 inside=0 logmap=536 periodicity=10 colors=00070u70o10i00b00Q00K00K00K00K00f40X90NG0KK\ 0KQ0KX0Kb0Kg0Ko0Ku1Kz3Kz4Kz6Nz7Pz9Qz9Sz9Uz9Wz9Xz9Z\ z9ZzB`zBbyBdwBfuBgsBiqBikHkgPkdWm`bmXgoUooQwqNzqJz\ sGzsQzi`sbkgWwXPsWNoWKkWKgWJdWH`WHXWGUWEQbENZCJXBG\ WBCW99W76W73W60W40W40W30W10W10W00W00X30X40X70X90XC\ 0XE0XG0XJ0XK0XP0XQ0XU0XW0ZX0Z`0Zb0Xf0Wg0Uk0Sm0Qo0K\ s0Ku0Jy0Hz0Hz3Gz4Hz7Jz9JzBKzEJzGGzHEzKCzN9yQ0oS0gU\ 0gX0gZ0g`0id0if0og0uk0zm0zq0zs4zuCzyJzzJzzJzzHzzHz\ zHzzGzzGzzEzzEzzCzzCwzBszBoz9kz9iz9fz7bz7Zz6Wz6Uz4\ Qz4Nz3Jz3Gz3Ez1Bz17z04z01z00z00z00z00zK0yC0s30u60d\ 90wC0yG0zJ0zN0zQ0zU0za0z`0zd0zg0zk0zm0zl0zm0zd0zZ0\ bS0ZP0UH0PC0K70N90PC0QC0SG0UJ0WP0XS0ZW0`Z0b`0db0ff\ 0gg0ik0km0mo0os0qu0sw0uz1wz3yz3zz4zz6zz6wz7sz9ozBi\ zCfzEbzEZzGUzHQzJNzKJzKEzNBzP7zQ3zS0zU0zU0zW0zX0zZ\ 0z`0z`0zX0zU0zQ0zP0zK0zH0zE0zC0z9bz0KzWHzQGzNEzJCz\ EBzB7z76z34z03z01z00z00z0 } frm:MandelbrotMix4 {; 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, k=real(p3)+1, l=imag(p3)+100, c=fn1(pixel): z=k*((a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f)))+c, |z| < l } END 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE==================================

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Saving Wordpad Files as ..frm Files
by gmcurtin＠comcast.net 15 Mar '02

15 Mar '02

Howdy folks, I need a small modicum of assistance, and I believe this is the place to ask. Windows 98's Write program wants to save .frm files I've been working on as .txt files. I remember a trick that Kerry Mitchell showed me that forced the program to save .frm files as .frm files. Does anyone know how to do this. I'd appreciate your help resolving this little annoyance. Thanks in advance, George Curtin

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FOTD 12-03-02 (A Dish of Salad [5])
by Jim Muth 12 Mar '02

12 Mar '02

FOTD -- March 12, 2002 (Rating 5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: I have just finished wading through a pile of images posted to one of the 'busy' fractal mailing lists to which I am sub- scribed. I found the images 'nice'. Now, I'm not sure what 'nice' means when used to describe a fractal, but I use the word when I can think of nothing else to say. In today's case, I was surprised that, even to myself, one of the biggest fractal addicts, the fractals posted to the 'busy' list eventually started to 'all look the same'. (As I also suspect my own recent fractal efforts posted to this list are starting to do.) A large number of the images posted to that 'busy' list are created with fractal generating program 'X'. In addition to its 'transforms', this program features the ability to pile on the layers until the memory limit of the machine is reached. I think it is the transforms and especially the layers that compromise my appreciation of such images. In the world of fractals, simplicity and frugality seem to create the most interesting images. Z^2+C creates a more interesting fractal than Z^32+C, and Z^(-2)+Z^3+(1/C) does better than Z^2+Z^3+Z^4+Z^5+Z^6....+(1/C). The same law of diminishing returns seems to come into action when the layers are piled on in an effort to be more 'artistic'. I am sometimes given the argument that the layers of a fractal are like the instruments of a symphony orchestra, working together in harmony to make a pleasing single unit. I find this argument unconvincing. Visual images are not the same as auditory images. We constantly hear different sounds overlapping and blending, but unless we are visually impaired or cross our eyes, we do not observe overlapping visual images. In fact, the brain goes out of its way to combine the slightly different input from the two eyes into a single image. Maybe I'm just an old fractal fogey, clinging to the old fractal ways and unwilling to accept the current 'progress' in the avant- garde world of 'fractal art'. Maybe I'm still mourning the passing of the days when the messages in the fractal world read something like 'look at what I just found at x,x in the Mandelbrot set!' But whatever the reason, I like my fractals plain and simple. Whatever, my fractal images will continue to consist of one layer and usually the basic 'equal-escape-time' coloring method. Today's average image, with its single layer, simple generating formula, and basic coloring method, is a typical example. I named it "A Dish of Salad" because that's what it reminds me of. Then, seeing its average worth, I rated it a 6. With a render time of just under 10 minutes on a P1 200mhz machine, the parameter file is somewhat slow. All slowness can be eliminated however by downloading the finished GIF file from: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> or from: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> The weather Monday here at Fractal Central was of the ideal late- winter variety. Blue skies, warm sun, light winds, and a temperature of 48F 9C made the porch the perfect place to pass the afternoon. Being cats, the dynamic duo passed the afternoon lounging in the sun on the porch. I'm about ready to pass the day working, so until next FOTD, likely on the Ides of March, take care, and things are not quite as they appear. Jim Muth jamth(a)mindspring.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ A_Dish_of_Salad { ; time=0:09:44.80--SF5 on a P233 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=-0.09194295359727203/+0.118613976553465\ 50/4.963097e+008/1/-95/-1.66362817186210821e-005 params=1/-0.95/-1/1.05/-0.05/0 float=y maxiter=1450 inside=0 logmap=192 colors=000TIjXDm_8pX7mU6jR6gO5\ eL4bI4_F3XC2V92S61P30M10K23M35N48P5AQ6DS7FT8IV9KWA\ NYBPZBR_CJOCBDDJHEQKFXOGcRHjVIqYIx`LwbNwdQweSwgVwh\ Xvj_vkavmdvnfvphvqgrngokglighfgecgbagZZgWXgTUgPRgM\ PgJMgGKhKOiNSjRWjU_kYcl`glckh`idZgaXfYUdVScRQaOO`K\ LZHJYDHWAFVICSQAPY8Me5Jm3Gt1E6xJ7sK7nL8iM8dN9_O9VO\ AQPALQBGRBBSC6TC2TF7VHCWJGXMLYOQ_QU`TZaVcbXgce`jnU\ pvOvrRtoTrkWphYnd`labjYehVgfRjdOlbKo`HqZDtXAvV7xT6\ vX5t`5rd4ph3nl3lpApfGsXMvOxgdwe`vdYucVtbSs`Pr_MqZJ\ qYGk`NfcTafZXidSljNnpQjqTfqWbrZZraVsdRsgNtiJtgIreH\ qcGpaFo_EnZDmXClVCkTBjRAiQ9hO8gM7fK6eI5dH5cG8`GAZF\ CWFFUFHSEJPELNDOKDQIDSGCUDCXBBZ8B`6Bb4Aa49`48_48Z4\ 7Y46X46W45V44U44T46`B8hIAoOGhKLaHQWEWPA`J7eC4j61eB\ 5aF9YKCUOGPTKLXNHaRDeV9iYAfWBeVCgUDiTEkSFmQGoPHqOI\ rNIsMGtOEuPDvQBwR9xT8yU6zV4zW3zX4zV5zU5zT6zS6zR7zP\ 8zO8zN9zM9zLAzJBzHCzF0zJ4zN8zQBzUFzXIz_MzcQzf } frm:MandelbrotMix4 {; 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, k=real(p3)+1, l=imag(p3)+100, c=fn1(pixel): z=k*((a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f)))+c, |z| < l } END 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE==================================

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Fractal Related Statistics...
by Paul N. Lee 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

Greetings, Just updated the "Fractal Census" with new web sites, new individuals, and various programs used: http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/Fractal_Census.html And decided to run a couple of queries against the 1,352 records in the database. So here is what I found based upon available information: MOST USED BY INDIVIDUALS ------------------------------ FractInt 473 UltraFractal 378 Mind-Boggling Fractals 93 XenoDream 74 Fractal Explorer 59 Tiera-Zon 41 KPT5 FraxFlame/Plorer/4D 37 SterlingWare 31 QuaSZ 24 Self-Written: 21 Fractal ViZion 10 Fractal eXtreme 7 Chaos: the Software 4 Flarium24 4 GrafZViZion 4 Quat 4 TieraZon2 4 ChaosPro 3 Flight From Fractal 3 Fract-O-Rama 3 Fractal Domains 3 Fractal Forge 3 Iterations 3 WinFract 3 (everything else was 2 or less) INDIVIDUALS USING ------------------------ --unknown-- 456 Albania 1 Argentina 6 Australia 36 Austria 6 Belgium 13 Brazil 6 Canada 45 Chile 1 China 2 Czechoslovakia 3 Denmark 5 Estonia 1 Finland 7 France 31 French Polynesia 1 Germany 43 Greece 1 Holland 1 Hungary 4 India 1 Ireland 1 Israel 3 Italy 18 Japan 8 Korea 2 Latvia 1 Lithuania 1 Luxembourg 1 MÃ©xico 1 Netherlands 40 New Zealand 15 Niue 1 Norway 5 Panama 1 Paraguay 1 Poland 1 Portugal 3 Puerto Rico 1 Russian Federation 1 Singapore 2 South Africa 6 Spain 10 Sri Lanka 1 Sweden 12 Switzerland 6 Thailand 1 Turkey 1 U.S.S.R. 4 United Kingdom 87 United States 443 Uruguay 2 Venezuela 1 Vietnam 1 Sincerely, P.N.L. -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.fractalus.com/cgi-bin/theway?ring=fractals&id=43&go

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freego
by the_juggernaut＠juno.com 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

The other freego links didn't work for me, but this one did: http://web.tiscali.it/freego_rifero/ jk ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

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Re: [Fractint] Fractal animations
by the_juggernaut＠juno.com 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

A pretty good animation generator is Fractal Animator by Brian Towles. You can get this program in the FractExtra package on the Fractint webpages. I like to take curves in the plane and plug them in for c, to get morphing Julia sets. Also try the program Xaos if you have a fast machine. jk On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:25:26 -0000 "Nimrod Jones" <Nimrod(a)doleos.demon.co.uk> writes: Has anyone else ever thought of using Fractint for fractal animations. I'm not on about just colour cycles (although they count) but I am mostly talking about animated zooms. I always thought that it would make a great animation to be able to "fly" into a fractal. Not just digtally zooming, but seeing the detail of the fractal unfold as though you were entering it. I have been experimenting with this a little by painstakingly incrementing zooms, rendering each image, and then placing them into an animation program. The major problem with this is that if along the way you make a mistake, or the motion isn't quite as you want it you need to go over the whole thing again. Does anyone know if there is any pre-existing fractal animation programs out there, or tools for Fractint for doing this. I'm sure it would be a simple enough task for someone to program a "plugin" of sorts that would automate the task of animating. At it's most basic level it's simply a matter of having a start image, zooming in to the required spot on the start image that you wish to be the end image and then it calculates and renders each frame, as it renders it saves each frame as either a seperate image, or as part of a multi-image file as a complete animation. I, personally, don't mind it generating loads of seperate images as putting them together as an animation is not the hardest part of the job. On a slightly more advanced level you could add keyframes to make the animation stop zooming and start panning, start rotating at a specific point, etc. Once the frames themselves have been generated anything more can be done in animation or movie software... Any ideas and/or thoughts about this? Nimrod...

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Fractal Related Statistics...
by Paul N. Lee 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

Greetings, Just updated the "Fractal Census" with new web sites, new individuals, and various programs used: http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/Fractal_Census.html And decided to run a couple of queries against the 1,352 records in the database. So here is what I found based upon available information: MOST USED BY INDIVIDUALS ------------------------------ FractInt 473 UltraFractal 378 Mind-Boggling Fractals 93 XenoDream 74 Fractal Explorer 59 Tiera-Zon 41 KPT5 FraxFlame/Plorer/4D 37 SterlingWare 31 QuaSZ 24 Self-Written: 21 Fractal ViZion 10 Fractal eXtreme 7 Chaos: the Software 4 Flarium24 4 GrafZViZion 4 Quat 4 TieraZon2 4 ChaosPro 3 Flight From Fractal 3 Fract-O-Rama 3 Fractal Domains 3 Fractal Forge 3 Iterations 3 WinFract 3 INDIVIDUALS USING ------------------------ -- unknown -- 456 Albania 1 Argentina 6 Australia 36 Austria 6 Belgium 13 Brazil 6 Canada 45 Chile 1 China 2 Czechoslovakia 3 Denmark 5 Estonia 1 Finland 7 France 31 French Polynesia 1 Germany 43 Greece 1 Holland 1 Hungary 4 India 1 Ireland 1 Israel 3 Italy 18 Japan 8 Korea 2 Latvia 1 Lithuania 1 Luxembourg 1 MÃ©xico 1 Netherlands 40 New Zealand 15 Niue 1 Norway 5 Panama 1 Paraguay 1 Poland 1 Portugal 3 Puerto Rico 1 Russian Federation 1 Singapore 2 South Africa 6 Spain 10 Sri Lanka 1 Sweden 12 Switzerland 6 Thailand 1 Turkey 1 U.S.S.R. 4 United Kingdom 87 United States 443 Uruguay 2 Venezuela 1 Vietnam 1 Sincerely, P.N.L. -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.fractalus.com/cgi-bin/theway?ring=fractals&id=43&go

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Re: [Fractint] Fractal animations
by Mark Christenson 10 Mar '02

10 Mar '02

At 09:56 AM 3/10/02 -0800, I wrote: > >and Ivan Muccinelli's Freego, >http://web.tiscalinet.it/freego_rifero > Sorry, I forgot; this isn't a stand-alone movie generator, it just generates the frames. You still need something like GIF Construction Set to stitch the frames together. Bud

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Fractal animations
by Nimrod Jones 10 Mar '02

10 Mar '02

Has anyone else ever thought of using Fractint for fractal animations. I'm not on about just colour cycles (although they count) but I am mostly talking about animated zooms. I always thought that it would make a great animation to be able to "fly" into a fractal. Not just digtally zooming, but seeing the detail of the fractal unfold as though you were entering it. I have been experimenting with this a little by painstakingly incrementing zooms, rendering each image, and then placing them into an animation program. The major problem with this is that if along the way you make a mistake, or the motion isn't quite as you want it you need to go over the whole thing again. Does anyone know if there is any pre-existing fractal animation programs out there, or tools for Fractint for doing this. I'm sure it would be a simple enough task for someone to program a "plugin" of sorts that would automate the task of animating. At it's most basic level it's simply a matter of having a start image, zooming in to the required spot on the start image that you wish to be the end image and then it calculates and renders each frame, as it renders it saves each frame as either a seperate image, or as part of a multi-image file as a complete animation. I, personally, don't mind it generating loads of seperate images as putting them together as an animation is not the hardest part of the job. On a slightly more advanced level you could add keyframes to make the animation stop zooming and start panning, start rotating at a specific point, etc. Once the frames themselves have been generated anything more can be done in animation or movie software... Any ideas and/or thoughts about this? Nimrod...

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