FOTD -- February 28, 2002 (Rating 2)
I gave up arguing with you about ratings since opinion is is the eye of the beholder. I agree with you over half the time but can see more of your mood than accurate rating this last couple of "days".
fractals do not make music that I have the patience to sit, concentrate on, listen to for hours, and be inspired by. When turned into sound, fractals do make very interesting background noise however, though I do not consider this cacophony to be music.
Here I agree whole heartedly. I suspect it is a function of the extra bandwidth that the eye can process that allows fractals to produce visual stimulus with what can be determined as patterns and thus considered pleasing. In creating a picture one has 5 easily distinguished dimensions to work with: color, saturation, brightness, plus the x and y axis. At any given moment the audio system is working with amplitude, frequency and perturbations in frequency. The human ear isn't all that sensitive to the timbre of a single note either. For me listening to fractal music is like being fed a single pixel at a time. Think of a screen saver that changes the color of the screen, all of it at once, in a semi-random way. Nifty background stuff, Huh?
Today's lowly 2-rated fractal is little better than 'fractal music',
Back to my mood theory. and it represents the end of my adventures with the
experimental MandelbrotMix3 formula. The experiment has been a failure. The image shows why. This fractal is typical of those created by the formula. The image tries too hard. It has so much of everything that it ends up having a lot of nothing. It is so busy with competing themes that it has no single theme to serve as a center of attention. In frustration, I named the image "A Boring Lesson".
In addition, the formula is exasperatingly slow, and requires the user to calculate a critical starting point manually. The outcome of all this is that the formula has been consigned to the trash bin of forgotten formulae. I have satisfied myself that, just as the Z^2 Mandeloid creates the richest fractal, so does mixing only 2 powers of Z create the richest mixed images.
My curiousity is not yet abated. Looks like I will have to finally get around to making fractint work on my machine now that I have switched over to Linux. I got sidetracked on thousand other projects.
I leave it to the reader to decide whether a 2-rated image is worth the 50 minutes required to render it from the parameter file.
Well, I am lazy and impationt Those who decide that the image is not worth nearly an
hour of computer time may download the finished image from one of the following two web sites:
I can always download it faster. :) Juice --have fun --harm none