FOTD -- October 13, 2002 (Rating 6) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: As viewers and readers of the FOTD know, most of my FOTD images are centered on a quadratic midget that lies in a critical plane of a fractal created by adding two different powers of Z to either C or 1/C. The important word here is 'most'. Occasionally, as in yesterday's 'antlers' image, which showed the entire chaotic part of the fractal, there is no midget to be seen. Today's image is a return to yesterday's fractal. I returned today to search for midgets, and found one that looks as though it is about to vanish beyond the bailout radius. Searching the surroundings of this midget, I found a spot where the entire character of the area suffers a sudden change, and did further searching there. I soon found a midget of apparently average quality. But as I was working with this sub-midget, trying to find something where little existed, the surroundings caught my attention. As I discovered, the interest in this area lies not in the midget, but in its surroundings. I settled on an area to the northwest of the midget, colored it with the < tdis > option, and named the result "Coronal Globules". One glance at the image will reveal why I gave it that name. The original midget is not lost however. It lies a short distance southeast of today's image, and well might appear as a FOTD in the near future. For those (if any) who want to see the rejected midget at once, an outzoom will reveal the exact location, and the midget can then be zoomed in upon. I have rated today's image at a 6, which is a little above average. The render time of 23 minutes is a little below average however. But relief in the form of a pre-rendered image file ready for download is available on the FOTD web sites at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> and at: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> If the image is not quite worth 23 minutes of rendering, it is certainly worth a minute or two of download time. The weather Saturday here at Fractal Central was an improvement over the day before, but the temperature of 68F 20C accompanied by fog, drizzle, and most importantly, wet grass, kept the dynamic fractal cats once again confined to the indoors, where their paws and whiskers remained dry. Today appears to be a repeat, so I suspect that before the day is finished, I'll be breaking out a tuna treat for the housebound duo. I'm now going to try to do as little work as possible for the rest of the day, before the more serious work arrives tomorrow. Until next time, in 24 hours, take care, and discipline your fractals with caution. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ Coronal_Globules { ; time=0:23:36.75--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+3.20666312768485400/+3.038945445674083\ 00/5455110/1/-130.000000056271801/7.11923277621484\ 552e-008 params=5/-0.05/0.5/-11/-0.8623/525 float=y maxiter=7200 inside=0 outside=tdis periodicity=10 colors=000QceRcdRccScbTcaTd`Ud_VdZVdXWdWXdVXeUYeTZ\ eSZeR_eQ`fP`fNafMbfLbfKdfJffIgfHifGkfFlfEjfFhfGffH\ dfIbfJafK`fL_fMZfNYfOYePXeQWeRVeSUeTUeUTeVSeWReXQe\ YQeZPe_Oe`NdaMebLdcLddKdeJdfIdgHdhHciGcjFckEclDcmD\ cnCcmBclAckAcjAciAdhAdgAdfAdeAddBdcDdbEdaFd`Gd_HdZ\ JcYKcXLcWMcVOcUPcTQcSRcRScQUbPVbOWbNXbMZbL_bK`bJab\ IbbHdaGeaFfaEgaDiaDjaDkaDlaDmaDo`Ep`Eq`Er`Et`Eu`Ev\ `Ew`EzaDx`Ew`Eu`Ft`Fs`Gq`Gp`Go`Hm`Hl`Ik`Ii`Jh`Jg_J\ e_Kd_Kc_La_L`_M__MY_MX_NV_NU_OT_OR_PQZPPZPNZQMZQLZ\ RJZRIZSHZSFZSEZTDZTBZUAZU8_V9ZU9YUAYTAXTBXSBWSCWRC\ VRDVQDUQEUPETPFTOFSOGSNGRNHRMHQMIQLIPLJPKJOKJNKINJ\ HMJGMIFLIELHDKHEKGF0GG0FH0FI0EJ0EKHDLGDMGCNFCOFBPE\ BQEARDASC9TDAUDAVEAWEAXFBYFBZGB_GB`HCaHCbICcICdJDe\ JDfKDgKDhLEiLEjMEkMElNFmNFnOFoOFpPGqPGrQGsQGtQGsRF\ sRFrRFrRFqREqREpREpREoRDoRDnRDnRDmRCmRClRClRCkRBkR\ BjSBjSBiSAiSAhSAhSAgS9gS9 } 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==================================