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Good to be back ! (second retry)
by Franktal Gallery 04 Jan '02

04 Jan '02

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Good to be back !
by Franktal Gallery 04 Jan '02

04 Jan '02

Hi folks, It's good to be back at the Fractint list, after a long, long time. Hope everybody had great holidays, and that 2002 be a better year for all of us. After a way extended outage (following the demise of Xoom), is with great pleasure that I announce the reincarnation of my Franktal Gallery website. Update your links ! Franktal Gallery - Shut Up and Draw Yer Fractals http://www.geocities.com/franktal2002 It features ray-traced fractals, new Fractint galleries, music PARs, and other assorted things of the fractal nature. Let me know if you like it ! Best regards Miguel Fliguer Buenos Aires - Argentina franktal(a)hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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FOTD 04-02-01 (Undefined Minibrot [3])
by JimMuth＠aol.com 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

FOTD -- January 04, 2002 (Rating 3) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: The fractal computer is still down, with a fan that died and needs to be replaced. I have a spare lying somewhere around, but it will take a while to find and install it. Meanwhile, on one of the office machines I managed to dredge up a fractal, which just barely qualifies as a FOTD. Since I could borrow the new machine for only a few minutes, and the Mandelbrot formula is lightning fast, I searched the Mandelbrot set to find the image. I settled on a very high iteration midget in a valley of a bud on a bud on a bud on a bud on a bud. I think I have the number of buds correct. The image, which rates only a lowly 3, (I'm certainly off to a poor start in 2002.), pictures nothing we haven't seen a number of times before. The midget is located on the north shore of the main bud, in an area that has yet to be defined. I named the picture "Undefined Minibrot". Because of its very high maxiter, the area of today's scene is a particularly difficult one to explore. The 233mhz machine I borrowed took a little of the bite out of the exploration. Unfortunately, I lacked the time to properly color the difficult picture, which features extremely intricate elements. The render time of 9 minutes on the P233 would be 10 minutes on the P200. The completed image is available as always on the internet at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> and at: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> The partly cloudy skies and temperature of 36F 2C here at Fractal Central on Thursday kept the cats housebound and cranky. The treat of tuna I gave them late in the afternoon only partially relieved their sour moods. As for me, my mood will improve when the work is caught up and the fractal computer is back in operation. With any luck, that will be accomplished by the end of the week. Until next time, take care, and watch out for self contradictions. Jim Muth jamth(a)mindspring.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Undefined_Minibrot { ; time=0:09:15.04--SF5 on a P233 reset=2002 type=mandel passes=1 center-mag=-1.1202\ 7165682/+0.264068655473/7.706148e+008/1/5/-7.32496\ 694253598202e-006 params=0/0 float=y maxiter=100000 inside=0 logmap=-11500 colors=000UmzHlwHitHfqGcnG`\ kFYiFVjFSjEPkEMlDJmDGnCGpDFoDFnEFnEFmFFlFFlGEkGEjH\ EjHEiIEhIEhJDgJDfKDfKDeLDdLDdLDcMCbMCbNCaNC`OC`OC_\ PBZPBZQBYQBXRBXRBWSAVSAVTAUTATUATUASUASXFQ_LPbONeT\ MhYKkcJnfGmhHmgImfJleKldLlcMkbMkaNk`Ok_PjZQjYRjXRi\ WSiVTiYUi`VhcWhaWh_XmOYrNZwM_rL`mK`hJafIbeHceGdeFe\ fEfeEedEecEebEeaEe`Ee_EeZEeYEeXEeWEeVEeVEdUEcTEbSE\ aRE`QE_PEZOEYNEXMEWLEVKEVKEXMGXOHXPIXRJWSKWULUWMSX\ NQZOO_PNaQLbRJdSHfTFgUEiVCjWAlX8n_6mZ7mY7mX7lW8lW8\ lV8kU9kT9kS9jS9jRAjQAiPAiPBiOBhNBiMBjLCkLClKCmJDnI\ DoIDpHEqGErFEsEEtEFuDFvCFwBGxBGyAGz9Gz8Hz7Hz7Hz6Iz\ 5Iz4Iz4Iz7MzAPzCSzFVzHYzKazMdzPgzRjzUmzXqzWpzVpzVo\ zUozUnzTnzTnzSmzSmzRlzRlzQkzQkzPkzPjzOjzOizNizNizM\ hzLhzLgzKgzKfzJfzJfzIezIezHdzHdzGczGczFczFbzEbzEaz\ Daz4fz9czDazH_zLYzPWzTTzXRz`PzdNzhLzlJzhNzdRz`VzXZ\ zZSz`LzaEzcIzdMzePzfYzdYzcZzb_za`z_azZazYbzWczVd } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================

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Help! More Wizzle & Gumbycat Broken Links
by Tony Parker 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

Sorry! I my search for more of Allison;s excellent Fractint Lessons, I come upon some more broken links! Anybody have some bandaids? on "Tips on Making Your Own Fractals" http://www.mathemagicimages.com/tutorials/hints/tips-fractint.htm#fractal%2… The following links seems "broke": "examples on her homepage. " http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5519/ "I am now mirroring her lessons " http://www.mathemagicimages.com/linda/lindas_lessons.htm "Color Magic with Fractint - try this" http://www.mathemagicimages.com/tutorials/wizmaps/wizmaps.htm "Linda Allison's marvelous Gumbycat homepage which " http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5519/ "Paul Carlson has to " http://fractal.mta.ca/fractals/carlson/ The Infinite Fractal Loop Homepage - http://www.emi.net/~dmj/ifl/

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I Noticed Some Broken GumbyCat aka Linda Allison Hyperlinks or lost pages
by Tony Parker 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

I'm really enjoying both UltraFractal and Fractint, but my "learning curve" still has me studying Fractint. I've really enjoyed and appreciated Linda Allison's (aka gumbycat) "Fractint Lessons" located at: http://www.mathemagicimages.com/tutorials/hints/linda/lindas_lessons.htm by Linda Allison aka gumbycat and hosted by wizzle Either my browser is on the fritz, or some of the links seem broken of the following pages have gotten lost somewhere....: On the "Fractint Lessons" page at: http://www.mathemagicimages.com/tutorials/hints/linda/lindas_lessons.htm the following "Color tricks" hyperlink seems broken: http://www.mathemagicimages.com/tutorials/hints/linda/colortricks/colortric… On the "Fractint Colormaps . . ." page located at: http://www.mathemagicimages.com/tutorials/hints/linda/colormaps/colormaps.h… The link for the c3.gif seems broke. http://www.mathemagicimages.com/tutorials/hints/linda/colormaps/c3.gif Finally on: http://www.mathemagicimages.com/tutorials/hints/linda/lindas_lessons.htm the following hyperlink also seems broke: "To see my fractals, many of which use Linda's dynamite color maps, please click here. And check back often to see what other ideas Linda has to share with us." http://www.mathemagicimages.com/tutorials/hints/fractals/fractalintro.htm Is there a mirror somewhere where I might be able to locate the missing files and images? Can anybody help me? Does anyone have copies of these files & images archived somewhere? Thanks in advance, and all the best! TG

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The Missing FOTD
by JimMuth＠aol.com 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

Due to technical difficulties, (the FOTD computer is down again), there will be no FOTD for January 3. The FOTD for January 4 will appear on schedule. Sorry about the delay, but things are just too busy to tie up another machine. Jim M.

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Re: [Fractint] Fractint Disk Video Mode Problems
by the_juggernaut＠juno.com 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

If you want a giant image, you should use the divide-and-conquer feature. Take the image you want to render, go to the save parameters screen, and at the bottom it will say "this is for generating the image in pieces." Choose a videomode and how many pieces you want. For example, if you want a 4096x3072 image, set x_multiples = y_multiples = 4 and vid_mode = SF7. It will make a .par file and a .bat file that will draw 16 1024x768 images and piece them together. The spliced together .gif is like an animated .gif (as near as I can tell), and you can use the program simplgif.exe to convert it to a regular one. However, I just tried this a few days ago, and simplgif didn't work. It made the .gif fine, but when I opened the simplified .gif, there were problems. Paint Shop Pro said something like "wrong lzw format" and SEA (a dos image viewer) opened it but it was really screwed up. This method has worked for me before, but that was on my old computer. Suggestions anyone? Jon K. On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:36:45 -0500 "Tony Parker" <tgparker(a)worldnet.att.net> writes: > Call me stupid, but I seem unable to get my present configuration of > Fractint to save gif image files in disk video mode larger than the > configured standard video card settings. I know I've forgotten > something and > am missing the obvious.... > > For instanse assume I'm using a Matrox Millenium AGP G-200 video > card in > Fractint 1024 x 768 x 256 Vesa Mode, and say I want to generate an > image 5x > or 10x that standard size in "disk video mode". > > Would someone please walk me through with even the most obvious baby > steps > of <v> mode settings and any other settings so that I can access the > "disk > video mode" and save my images to larger, denser, files in > fractint? > > Would any other configs or settings interfer with why the disk video > mode > isn't working? > > Pleas advise > Thanks > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fractint mailing list > Fractint(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint > ________________________________________________________________ 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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Fractint Disk Video Mode Problems
by Bill Jemison 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

<<...do you have any tips for optimizing rendering time and improving <<performance re: the cache settings? No. But I always thought that whether one is writing to screen, memory or disk, that the limiting factor was the actual calculation time, not the write time. But that is just my conjecture, as I know nothing about the reality of the situation. BTW, I've never used background generation for its speed - seems to be about 25% slower than screen generation for me...but it is handy if I've got something else to do <g>

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Re: (fractint) MandelbrotBC is not the end...
by Andrew Coppin 02 Jan '02

02 Jan '02

>From: JimMuth(a)aol.com >Reply-To: fractint(a)lists.xmission.com >To: fractint(a)lists.xmission.com >Subject: Re: (fractint) MandelbrotBC is not the end... >Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:31:54 EST > >I'll not quibble with infinity. Infinity is infinite. It would take >eternity to >explore even the lowest infinity, and even then, one would be just >starting. Also, even though the branches may be infinitely infinite, >there is a certain sameness to even the branches that the >MandelbrotBC1 formula *does* reach, that leads me to feel that more >of the same sameness is to be found in the un-reachable branches. >The non-integer fractals might be infinitely infinite, but are they >infinitely varied? > >Jim M. Point taken. You are quite right of course. I just have an unending curiosity about these things; I want to see everything 8-) But, alas, this is impossible. While the human mind can barely comprehend a 4D object, trying to comprehend a corkscrew of an infinite number of dimensions is totally impossible. The reason why I originally created the BC formulas was because I looked at the shattered figures of the noninteger exponent fractals and wanted to "un-shatter" them. I see a spiralling arm cut off by a discontinuaty, and I wonder what "the rest of it" looks like. Well, now I can see! (Almost...) I'm thinking of using POVRay to try to render "the whole" corkscrew in 3D. I figure if I use FractInt to draw enough 2D slices, I could picture-map them onto a corckscrew shape in POVRay. If I ever pull this off, I will let you folks know! Thanks. Andrew. "Unshattering a fractal is like unscrambling and egg - so improbably as to be effectively impossible for all practical purposes." _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

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Re: [Fractint] Is the Official Spanky Fractint Homepage Dead Forever?
by Noel Giffin 02 Jan '02

02 Jan '02

Hello all, The Spanky site was down for an extended period over Christmas/New Years. I was away for about 12 days and during that time, there was a major scheduled power outage and I had to shut down all systems until I returned. The site: http://spanky.triumf.ca/ is back up and so is the fractint homepage. http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/fractint.html Sorry for the confusion and the inconvenience. Noel Giffin

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