FOTD -- August 08, 2009 (Rating Green) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Alert! There is a minor crisis here at FC. When I turned on my fractal-dedicated Dell P4-2000mhz unit this morning, it beeped 1...3...2 and did nothing more. The 1...3...2 is obviously some kind of code indicating what the problem might be, but I have been unable to find what the code means. Meanwhile, the FOTD is once again being created on my 14-year-old P200mhz unit, which for all its years still works perfectly. So as not to create confusion, I have edited the calculation time to what it would have been on the P4-2000mhz machine. The computer problem is why this FOTD is late. As for today's FOTD image, it is 100-percent natural, with abso- lutely no artificial stuff. It is also organic. In addition, for every person who views the image, a stalk of corn will be planted, which will help feed a starving child somewhere. But view the image NOW. Don't let this opportunity to reverse the environmental decline slip by. The ice caps are melting, the polar bears are dying, the coastal cities are flooding, children are starving everywhere. Only you can save the earth. But wait! If you view the image in the next 10 minutes, two stalks of corn will be planted, and will save the earth in half the time. The image lies in the parent fractal that results when 8.8 parts of Z^(1.11) are subtracted from 8 parts of Z^(1.1) and straight C is added. This parent fractal closely resembles the fractals that result when formulas such as (-Z)^1.25+C are calculated, but instead of minibrots of the same low order, the parent holds perfect quadratic minibrots. Today's image shows one of these minibrots, this one buried very deep in the chaos on the southern shore line of the parent, which is actually the northern shore line when the parent is rotated 180 degrees to its true orientation. I named the image "The Good Old days" and rated it at a rating of 'green'. The rating shows that fractals are good for the environment, since even though they are infinite in number, they do no environmental damage at all. The calculation time of 3 minutes and 30 seconds is one quarter of the actual 14 minutes and 09 seconds the image took to calcu- late on the P-200 machine. My advice is to avoid time confusion by going to the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> and viewing the finished image there. Near perfect conditions prevailed here at Fractal Central on Friday, with ample sun and a temperature of 81F 27C. The fractal cats enjoyed it, but I was too busy to do so. Despite all the adversity however, a fractal did appear, and another one will appear in 20 hours or so. Until then, take care, and does anyone know what that 1...3...2 signal from the sick Dell P4-2000mhz machine means? Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= The_Good_Old_Days { ; time=0:03:30.00-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basic.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=ident passes=1 center-mag=-1.717978244060236/-3.465927070574558/\ 4.1068e+012/1/41.5/0 params=8/1.1/-8.8/1.11/0/0/0/0 float=y maxiter=2100 inside=0 logmap=264 periodicity=10 mathtolerance=0.05/1 colors=000KK2LJ3MI4OG4PF5QE6RD7TB8UA9V9AW8AYAD_CFa\ EHbGJdIGfJIgLKiNMkPOlRQnSSpUUqWWsXYtY_tZYsYVnXTjTM\ fRFdN8aK2WI1QH1LG1GF5CE5AD5AD4BE4BF4CG8CH8DH8DI7EJ\ 7EK7MJ9THB_GDfEFmCHtBJqIHoPFlWEjbKgiUepccwmZvwVvzR\ vzNzzIzzEzzAvz6uu2sm7pcBmUFhKJeHNaIRZJVVKZSKbQIfPH\ jNGnMErKDvJCwKGwLKwMNwNRwOUwPYxQ`xRdxSgxTkxUnxVrxV\ uvWrtWpsWnqXlpXjnXglXekYciYahY_fYXdZVcZTaZR`ZPjfUs\ mZoj`kgbgedcbf__hWYjSVlOSnKQpGNrDLtwIuvQguXUtdGtk3\ lkAekHYkORkVJkaCkgFmiHokKpmMroPsqRusTvuKflBSc2DV6C\ Y9B_CAbF9dI8gL7iO6kMCmKHnIMoGRqFWrD`sBeu9jv7ow6txA\ qvEouImtLksPhrTfqWdo_bnc_mfYljWknUjqSiYm2Ti8PeEKaK\ GZQBVW7Ra3Of6dV9uJHoCOj6VaA`TEfLIlCMr4QuCFxK4tL8qL\ BmMzjMzgNzcNz`zzYzzzzzRzzOzzzzzzzzEzzDzzzzzDzzCzzz\ zzCzzBzzzzz9zz9zzzzz7zz6zzzzz5zN4zM3zL3zK2zJ1zI0zH\ 0zG6zJBzMGzPLzSQzVVzYjzkyzypzuhzr_zoSzlJziBzf3zc7z\ aAz`Ez_HzZLzXOzWSzVVzUZzT } frm:MandAutoCritInZ {; 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)+(p4)), k=real(p3)+1, l=imag(p3)+100, c=fn1(pixel): z=k*((a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f)))+c, |z| < l } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================