[Fractint] FOTD 13-02-02 (Stained Glass Window [9])

13 Feb 2002

      FOTD -- February 13, 2002 (Rating 9)

Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

The FOTD CD is progressing nicely.  Of the 70 or so odd months 
of FOTD's that will be on the disk, 3 months are already 
finished.  At this rate, if nothing goes wrong, (which probably 
will happen), I could have the disk ready before the end of the 
year.

Today's image is an old one, which I created back in 1997.  
Looking at it, with its warmly glowing effect of being 
illuminated from within, I wonder how much, if at all, my images 
have improved in the past five years, especially since I became 
obsessed with an endless series of Mandelbrot midgets.

I have named the image "Stained Glass Window" for its effect of 
sunlight streaming through a church window at sunset.  I rated 
the image a 9 because it is worth that lofty rating.

The render time of 11 seconds is a great demonstration that good 
fractals need not take a long time to render.  It will take 
several times that long to go online and download the completed 
image from Paul's web site at:

          <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html>

or from Scott's site at:

          <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html>

The fractal weather Tuesday here at Fractal Central was 
uneventful, though the cats, who were dis-satisfied, must have 
considered uneventful weather too harsh.  The hazy sun, moderate 
winds, and temperature of 52F 11C kept them confined to the 
porch, waiting for the sun, which at this time of year almost 
but not quite tops the holly trees around midday.  An afternoon 
dish of tuna eased their discomfort.

My discomfort will be eased when the day's work is finished and 
the FOTD CD is ready.  It will take about 5 hours to finish the 
day's work, and closer to 500 hours to finish the CD, but the 
only way to finish is to start.  So until next FOTD, take care, 
and be patient.

Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com

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