FOTD -- August 21, 2003 (Rating 5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: WARNING . . . the first four paragraphs are an off-topic rant. Spam is one thing, but when I opened my e-mail box last evening after a 3-day absence, I found over 750 spams, many with a 70KB attachment waiting to be downloaded. Since I have a slow dial-up connection, each attachment takes almost one minute to download. A simple bit of math will show that the total download will take close to 12 hours to complete, and the new junk is arriving almost as fast as I can download it. Needless to say I am rather annoyed. REMAINING 3 PARAGRAPHS OF RANT DELETED . . . I counted to 10. Today's hastily found image combines Z^(-7.7) and Z^(-1.1). Much of the image consists of 'inside' parts made visible by the 'epsiloncross' inside fill. The name, "Wicked Screensaver" was inspired, if it can be called inspiration, by the subject line of many of the spam e-mails. I didn't give much thought to rating the image, so the rating of an average 5 will have to do. The render time of 16 minutes can be cut drastically by letting Paul and Scott render the image and downloading it from their web sites at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> After being indoors for two days, the fractal cats were quite eager for the brief spell in the yard they had when I returned late Wednesday afternoon. They grew grouchy when I brought them in too soon. Since I was already grouchy, we all sulked together. This morning is starting very warm, and my e-mail box is once again stuffed with over 300 worthless letters. While down- loading and deleting, I'll get some real work done on another machine. Until tomorrow, when I may be in a better mood, take care, and don't lose your cool. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ Wicked_Screensaver { ; time=0:16:20.31--SF5 on a p200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=-3.706926183106532/+14.67823304557001/4\ 828493 params=-0.3/-7.7/-2.1/-1.1/0/0 float=y maxiter=850 inside=epsiloncross proximity=0.002 logmap=206 periodicity=10 colors=0009LVBMUCNTDOSFPRGQQHRPJSOKSOLTNNUMOVLPWKR\ XJSYITYIVZHW_GX`FZaE_bD`cCacCbdEbdGcdHceJceLdeMdeO\ dfQefRefTbdWefUhhSjjQmlOpnMrpKurIzvFwtGtrHrqIooJmn\ KjlLgkMeiMbhN`fOYePVcQTbRQ`SO_SP`VQaXQbZRcaSccSdeT\ egUfjUglVgnWhqWisXjuXjwYktYkrYloZlmZmjZmh_ne_nc_o`\ `oZ`pW`pUaqRaqPdsPaqNZpMVlKSjJPfHLdGIaEFZDBXB8UA5S\ 97RC8QEAPHBOJDNMEMOGLRHLTJKWKJYMI`NHbPGeQFgSEjTElW\ FkYFj_GiaGhcHgeHfhIejIdlJcnJbpKarK`zJYtK_oLaiMcdNe\ ZOgUPiOQkJRmDSo5Pr8SqBVpEYpH`oKbnNenQhmTklWmlXlkYk\ kZjjZjj_ii`hiahhaghbfgcfgdefddfedefcegbdgbdhaci`cj\ `bi`ch`dg`dg`ef`ee`fe`fd`gc`gc`hb`ia`i``j``j_`kZ`k\ Z`lY`lX`mZWrX`mVeiUieSnaQsYOzTPwUQuURsURqUSoVTmVTk\ VUiVVgWVeWWcWXaWX_XYYXZWXaeUZUXVCJXIZVH_UH_TG_SG_R\ G`QF`PF`OF`NEaMEaLEaKDaJDaICbHCbGCbFBbEBcDBcCAcBAc\ AAcCEaEI_GMZIQXKUVMYUOaSQeQSiPUmNiy0VpMScWOcWJcWFc\ WBcW4en7cW8i69bD9XJ000Pol } 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==================================