FOTD -- March 13, 2005 (Rating 6) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's FOTD came about as I was experimenting with color schemes. There was a period several years ago when I did quite a few images like today's, with its banded low-iteration stuff in the foreground and its more distant high-iteration stuff partly obscured in the background. With the proper coloring, such images can be given a strikingly convincing three-dimensional effect. The coloring of today's image is not the best of all time, but it does capture some of the three-dimensional effect of such scenes. I named the image "Distant Horizons". The impression it gives is one of standing behind a mass of twisting fractal material in the foreground, looking out into the infinite distances of the world of fractals. The location of the Parabolic scene is related to the north bud of the Mandelbrot set, or more correctly, if extended, one of its dimensions would intersect the north bud. The other dimen- sion has a similar relation to the Julia set of the north bud. The rating of a 6 is based almost entirely on the coloring. The render time of under 2 minutes is quite reasonable. A download of the finished image from the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> is equally reasonable. Partly cloudy skies and a temperature of 46F 8C made conditions acceptable for the fractal cats on Saturday. They spent about 2 hours lurking well concealed in the holly thicket, waiting for something to happen. Nothing did, and the duo came inside satisfied that they had done their job. Today is starting mostly cloudy and chilly. I expect a repeat. As for me, I will likely do as little as possible for the rest of the day, except for fractals, that is. The next FOTD will be ready in 24 hours. Until then, take considerable care, and keep fractaling. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Distant_Horizons { ; time=0:01:46.06--SF5 on a P200 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=slices.frm formulaname=Parabolic passes=1 center-mag=-0.04878\ 05/-1.06478/21.01469/2.7296/-90/-12.042575142884886 params=0/0.7071/0/0.7071 float=y maxiter=38000 inside=255 logmap=10 symmetry=none periodicity=10 colors=000E7HKJKG9IMKKIBJOMKKDKQOIMFJSQKOHLUSMQJNW\ UOSLPYWQVMRZXSVNT`XUXNVaYWYOXcZXZPYd_Z`Q_e``aRagab\ bSchaddTejbfeUgkchgVildjhWjnekiXlofmkXnqgolYprhqnZ\ rriso_ttjup`vtkwraxwmyraxrjwo_vohukYtkfshVrhcqeTpc\ `obSn`Zm_Qm`ZlaSka_jbTic_hcVgdafdWeebdfXcfcbgZahc`\ h`_idZiaYjfXkbWkgVlcUmgTmfSnhRngQoiPphOpkNqiMrkLrk\ KslJtmHslIrlJqlJplKokLnkLnkMmkMljNkjOjjOijPiiQhiQg\ iRfiRehSdhTdhTchUbgVagV`gW_gW_fXZfYYfYXfZWe_Ve_Vea\ UecTdeSdgRdiQdkQdmQeoPeqPfsPfuPgwPhxPhyOizOizOjzOj\ zOkzOkzNlzNlzNmzNnzNnzNozNozMpzMpzMqzMqzMrzMrzLszL\ tzLtzLuzLuzLvzKvzKwzKwzKxzKxzKyzKyzKzzLzzMzzNzzOzz\ PzzQzzRzzSzzTzzUzzVzzWzzXzzYzzZzz_zz`zzazzbzzczzdz\ zezzfzzgzzhzzizzjzzkzzlzzmzznzzozzpzzqzzrzzszztzzu\ zzvzzwzzxzzyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz0HP } frm:Parabolic {; Jim Muth real(z),real(c) z=imag(pixel)+p1, c=real(pixel)+p2: z=sqr(z)+c, |z| <= 16 } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================