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MOTD 040314 Strange Vision
by Albrechtx 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

HI, ; some images risen from the depth of MFR12 are so strange that you forget to breeze on first sight, trying to find something it resembles. But there is nothing and yet - as it has such a clean structure there must be something. Your guess is at good as mine, bu one thing is clear: It is impressive. ; https://www.dropbox.com/sh/t2ma5fongxftceg/hbUqD5PgbQ ; Cheers, Albrecht

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MOTD 050314-2 The Battle
by Albrechtx 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

HI, ; I added a second part to todays MOTD. It?s a zoom into 47000-03 but a different image, because the outside border is increased, so in fact two different spirals battle for dominance. Nevertheless the image is in no way chaotic, as the colors still are different and the result is extraordinary. ; https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9d9zvwq8cisgdln/mW8ngvSR_i Cheers, Albrecht

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MOTD 050314 MFR12 Magic
by Albrechtx 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

HI, ; there?s a good reason for the name: If you take yesterday?s 41000-03.gif and change just one digit - rp2 second digit - from 1 to 7 you get todays 4700-01 ! This basic image is beautiful and interesting, but the light zoom - judge yourself. FRM and par included. A small tip: Copy the MOTD parfiles into a "MOTD.par" file within the fracitint par section, so you have them all together. ; https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yb4omt26symmgm6/KXQfVao0wg Cheers, Albrecht

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Comments on Albrecht's "MOTD 040314" 41000-01.GIF
by Hal Lane 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Albrecht, I really liked your fractal 41000-01.GIF a lot! The deep red and subtle slate blue colors immediately reminded me of old hand-painted Chinese screens and pictures. I think that impression was helped by the thin curved arcs that evoked the strokes from a calligraphic brush that's used to draw Chinese characters. The deep red colors are also shaded through a range of very pleasing tones -- but with a twist (see below.) Raymond Filiatreault's FintMap http://www.nahee.com/Software/+FIntMap/ ver 1.4 shows some interesting work was done to create this particular color map: http://tinyurl.com/41000-01-FIntMap-color-map or: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/Albrecht/MFR12/41000-01_FIntMap.jpg The slate blue is a single color throughout the entire image -- it's in the color "swatch" roughly under the green "4" in the file name in the above screen capture; however, these deep reds have been almost dithered by the fractal itself to give a textured aspect to these areas. The dithering is mostly between two adjacent colors of red in the color map (those colors are under the "10" in the file name.) I really like the effect this creates in the image -- it seems to add age to the "canvas" the work is painted on... Looking at the color swatch at the bottom of the screen capture of FIntMap, I almost expected to see Paul Carlson-like areas with shiny highlights in Albrecht's fractal -- but the patterns of the fractal's areas didn't invoke this. Albrecht's fractal is definitely not a shiny, Carlsonesque "Mind Boggling Fractal". - Hal Lane ######################## # hallane(a)earthlink.net ######################## --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

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Issues
by JackOfTradeZ＠comcast.net 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

. Albrecht - I know how you feel <g> about lack of feedback, but that doesn't mean people aren't interested! I'm sure many (like me) download and render the formulas w/o necessarily commenting all the time; I don't expect everyone who downloads one of my animations to jump online and comment how awesome they are, (although I know they are awesome and just a little praise would not hurt...<g>). The multifractal formulas are way-cool; I have tried zooms and parameter animation tests but nothing worth doing (yet); also they take LONG to render. As for the question about FractInt platforms, I will repeat that an old Win9X machine is your best bet. Pentium-2,3 at 500-900 MHz or thereabouts. For current systems, I have found that WinXP itself isn't the problem - it seems to be the hardware a/o chipset configuration. Athlon64 chips are good, Intel not so good. I have and have had several systems over the years; the one I currently am using (Alienware Area51, purchased in 2006) has NVIDIA GeForce 8600, and AMD AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ -15807.3 Mhz. It is the fastest fractint machine I have ever had - just click on the file in windows and it opens and runs in a command shell. Yet my previous WinXP Gateway system was absolutely unusable with fractint. With both of these I would boot up with a DOS 7.0 boot CD and run on a FAT32 partition. .

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Issues
by JackOfTradeZ＠comcast.net 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

. Someone asked: ""Since you mentioned booting DOS, did you ever run Fractint from DOS?"". I do not understand the question! If I boot from a DOS 7.0 CD, am I not then running fractint in DOS ?? I created the CD by first making a boot floppy in Win9X, then a CD burning program (Easy CD Creator ver 5.0, rather old software) has the ability to create boot CD using the floppy as source; I also add misc DOS files to it as I needed. The original HD was of course formatted NTFS, and couldn't be seen after DOS boot. But "Partition Magic 8.0" software allows conversion of partitions back to FAT32, something I had thought not possible. On the FAT32 partition is fractint and all needed files; it all works perfectly. I have been using flat (LCD) monitors forever - both on my old Win9X boxes and the current systems. The only problem is that they have a "default" resolution mode that may not be what you want for fractals; it still works however. .

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MOTD 030314 Ying-Yang
by Albrechtx 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

HI, : of course it is not easy at all to create a fractal that reminds of the Ying-Yang symbol, but I think I have come pretty close. Referring to my feetwarmer a while ago maybe this may be a source for another version too. The music has the title because of the left-right game it plays but with a suitable image - who knows? ; https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3256nsbt17xk17y/fcdXb_pt8V ; Cheers, Albrecht

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MOTD´s
by Albrechtx 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

HI, ; since more then 3 weeks I have not received feedback or any reaction, although I have tried to make the MOTD´s as interesting as possible. So I must accept that there is no interest and will waste no more time and energy. ; All links are deactivated except MOTD 170214 warpdemo MOTD 260214 border system and yesterdays music edition MOTD 270214 stress relief. On request I will reactivate a link but I doubt there will be any. So from now on only the daily weatherreports and mandel decorations remain. ; Albrecht

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Ying-Yang Trip
by Albrechtx 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

HI, ; just in case somebody wants something really hot on this cold and rainy day ; https://www.dropbox.com/sh/40k2u5f2mxj1no7/8lwz1-Hp9x ; Cheers, Albrecht

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FOTD 02-03-14 (The Seventh Heaven [A-6,M-7])
by Jim Muth 02 Mar '14

02 Mar '14

FOTD -- March 02, 2014 (Rating A-6,M-7) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's scene shows an order-7 minibrot in the East Valley area of a small half-morphed minibrot on the main stem of the parent fractal, which is an oversized Mandelbrot set corrupted in its depths by Z^7 energies. I named the image "The Seventh Heaven" because of the Z^7 energies that pervade it. I think it was the ancient poet Dante who determined that there are seven heavens, though present-day people would be satisfied to have real evidence of even one. The art rating of a 6 is average. The math rating of a 7 is a little above average, though the math trick is beginning to appear a bit shopworn, and may soon lose some of its originality. The calculation time of 1-1/4 minutes will pass fast enough. The image may be seen on the web sites equally as fast, and without the nuisance of calculation. For convenience, check the finished image at: <http://www.crosscanpuzzles.com/Archives.html> <http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/jim_muths_fotd.html> <http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/> <http://user.xmission.com/~legalize/fractals/fotd/about.html> A bit of snow around daybreak, a temperature of 34F +2C and clouds that hung around all day made the outdoors rather unpleasant here at Fractal Central today. The fractal cats spent the day being cats; the humans passed the day being humans. The next FOTD will be posted in the near future. Until the next time, take care, and would the genuine bad guys of the world please step forward and state their case. Jim Muth jimmuth(a)earthlink.net START PARAMETER FILE======================================= The_Seventh_Heaven { ; time=0:01:15.00 SF5 at 2000MHZ reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm formulaname=MultiExp function=recip center-mag=-17.83417305203472/+0.0000001307216498/\ 1.279976e+009/1/-50/0 params=7/11 float=y maxiter=1950 inside=0 logmap=150 periodicity=6 colors=000FmjGmjHmjImkJmkKmkLmkMmkNmkMmlMmlMllMkmL\ jmLimLfmKciJ`eIYaHWYGUTFSQEONDKKBFF89A555333000000\ muqkwpiypgvnetlcrjaph_ngYleWjcUgaSe_QcZOaXN_VNYTNR\ SOKXKBaG1ZC0U80P30KzzzzzzmmmcccZ`sYVrYQpXKoXFmW9lW\ 4kY7jZ9j`BjaDjbGidIieKifMihNgjOflOenPdpPcrQbsQaEPF\ KMIQJKWGN`EPZIOXLOWOOUSOSVORYOP`ONdOMgOKjOJmOLkNMi\ NNgMPeMQcLcaLc_LcYKmWKmUJmSJzQIzOIzNIzPHzRHmTHmVGm\ XGcZGc`Gc_HUZHUYHUXHJWHIVHGUHETHDSHBRH9QH8QH9PLAOO\ ANRBMUBLXCK_DJbDIeEHhEHzjKzdKz_LzV3zX6zm9zmCzzFzzI\ zzLzzOzzRzmUzmXzf_zgbzWRaLFtKCpJ9lI6hH3dKC_NKVPTQS\ `LUhHUdKUaMUZOUWQUSSUPUUMWUJZUG`UCbUUdUUfUUhUUjTUg\ TUeTUcSUaScZScXScVRcTRcRRcOQcMQcKcmIcmGcmIcmKcmMcm\ NcmPVmRcmScmUcmWcmXcmZcm`cmacmczzezzfzzbzz_zzXzzTz\ zQzzNzzMzzLzzLzzKzzKzzJzzJzzIzzIzzHzzHzzJzzLzzNzzP\ zzQzzSzzUzzWzzYzzZzzXzzVzzTzzRzzrzzozzlzzizzfzzczz\ `zzYzzVzzSzzQzzTzzWzzZzza } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================

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