FOTD -- September 30, 2011 (Rating 8.5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's image is a scene deep in Seahorse Valley, where the elements are of extremely high iteration. Even today's maxiter of 600,000,000 leaves some open areas outside the central minibrot. This extreme maxiter also makes the calculation frequently appear to hesitate. This is normal. With iteration counts and maxiters like today's, the logmap options are basically useless, producing nothing but flat areas of color. Shutting off the logmap results in an image with too much trashy chaos. The 'tdis' option would probably do better, but it does not use the fireball-fast machine language of the type=mandel formula, and would require many hours to finish. I compromised by rendering the image with the outside set to 'real', which adds enough detail to make things interesting, cuts the trashy chaos a bit, and still uses the fireball-fast math. The rating of an 8-1/2 includes the standard half-point for the coloring. The name "My Name Is Fractal" refers to the image, not myself. The calculation time of 21 minutes is on the slow side, but the time will seem to pass quicker once the brilliant colors appear at the top of the screen. The official FOTD web site is at: <http://www.crosscanpuzzles.com/Archives.html> The high-definition image may be found at: <http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/jim_muths_fotd.html> The classic web site is at: <http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/> A mix of clouds and sun, and a temperature of 68F 20C made today an acceptable one here at Fractal Central. At least, the fractal cats thought so. They spent a lot of time in the window that serves as their TV, watching for stray cats passing by and squirrels gathering nuts. FL and I, the local humans, spent the day doing what needed to be done. The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours, most likely a trip into the 4-dimensional Julibrot. Until then, take care, and there are 4 regular concave polyhedrons in 3-dimensional space in addition to the five well-known convex Platonic solids, for a total of 9 regular 3-dimensional polyhedrons. Jim Muth jimmuth@earthlink.net START PARAMETER FILE======================================= My_Name_Is_Fractal { ; time=0:21:09.60-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=mandel passes=1 center-mag=-0.7499\ 9999734953670/+0.00010000004597996/1.381434e+012/1\ /-20/0 params=0/0 float=y maxiter=600000000 bailout=9 inside=0 outside=real periodicity=6 colors=0009WH9_F8bC7fA6i76l57iA8gE9eJAbNB`RCZWDW_E\ UdFShFQlgv7dvAavC_vEXvGVvISvKPvMNvPKvRIvTFvVCvXAvZ\ 7v`5vb6r`7n_7jY8fX8cW9_U9WTASRAOQBLPBHNCDMC9KD5JD2\ IK1MR1PY1Sd0Vk0Yr0`y0cw3au6_s8ZqBXoDWmFXkHYiJZgL_f\ N`PJQMJRKJRGMQCOQ8QQ4SQ1UQ8SNFQLMOISNGZLDeJBkI9lLA\ mOAnRAoTApWAqZAr`BscBtfBuhBvkBwnBwpBrlAmhAie9da9_Y\ 8WV8RR7MN7IK6DG68C54955C65E75H75J85M95O95QA5TB5VB5\ YC5_D5bD5dE5fEQbRiZbiVhiYih`khclgfnghofkpfnreqsetu\ dwvdywcuubrsaoqalo`in_flZcjZ`hYYfXUeWRcWOaVL_UIYTF\ XTCVS9TR6RR3QT9RVESXJTYPT_UUaZVccWdiWfnXhsYixYiyZf\ t_dp`ala_hbXdcV_dSWeQSfNOgLKhJGiIEiPCaWAVb8Nl2Cj4E\ h6Gf8HdAJbBL`DM_FOYHPWIRUKTSMUQOWKNZPPXUQVZSTcTRhU\ PmWNrXLiukizkeuhbqe_mcXi`UeZR`WOXULTRIPPFLMCGK9CH6\ 8F34C00A16C2CD2HF3NG3TI4YJ4cL5iM5nN9mNCmNFmNIlNjoj\ XJdZKa`L_aMYcMWdNUfOShOQiPOkQMlQKnRIoSGqSEsTCtUAvU\ 8wV6yW4zW2vU5sS8CMPBPMATK } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================