FOTD -- June 01, 2007 (Rating 5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: It's a new month here at Fractal Central, where our job is to try to make silk purses out of the sow's ears some customers send in. Sometimes we succeed, sometimes not. In today's image I have tried once again to make something of nothing. The nothing is the midgets I have so far found in the Mandeloids between 1 and 2; the something would be to actually find a really great midget in one of these fractals. Today I tried, with only a bit of success, to make something of a tiny midget I found in the debris on the northern side of the main bay of the parent fractal that is generated when the formula Z^(1.5)+C is reiterated 439-1/2 levels down the infinite complex logarithmic ladder. What I got was just another bunch of broken filaments converging on a tiny midget in the center, which is so small that it might as well be invisible. By working on the coloring a bit I was able to rate the whole thing at a 5. But by FOTD standards, any rating below a 6 is unacceptable. I named the image "Searching for Silk", which was what I was doing when I stumbled upon the midget. Am I ready to give up the so-far-fruitless search? No way! But I will confine my efforts to the Z^(1.5)+C fractals until I find something worth the effort. In fact, I already have an idea for tomorrow's FOTD. Today's image is lightning fast. It calculates in under one minute. And just as fast and even more convenient is going to the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> and viewing the completed image there. Let's face it, the weather has been a bit too perfect here at Fractal Central these past several weeks. True, the sunshine was plentiful on Thursday, but the high temperature of 91F 33C and noticeable humidity were just too oppressive to be called perfect, and the lack of rain is causing real concern among the area farmers. The fractal cats only concern was the noise from the road work 1/2 block up the street. But even that minor annoyance went away when the workers quit for the day at 5pm. As for me, the day was acceptable, neither great nor terrible, but simply acceptable. The next FOTD fractal will appear in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and when measuring the volume of a theoretically perfect vacuum, exactly what are we measuring? In other words, how can there be more or less of nothing? Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Searching_for_Silk { ; time=0:00:52.35-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotBC2 center-mag=+0.3115167767\ 8686230/+1.075817196299104/5.097184e+008/1/-20/\ -0.00045278055760125 params=1.5/0/-439.5/0 float=y maxiter=800 inside=0 logmap=100 periodicity=10 colors=000W4kY5l_6m`7nb8od9pfAqgBriCskDtmEunFuoKqo\ PnoTkoYhobeofbok_opXotUpqQqnNqkKriHsfDscA`I5`F2YE3\ WD4TC5RB6OA6M97J88H89E7AC6A95B74C43D22E02E77DECCLG\ CSLBYQBdUAkZArc9xg9tcDq`HmYLjVPfRTcOW`L_XIcUEgQBkN\ 8oK5rJ6mJ7iI8dI9`qnWrpYrqZrr`rsartbrvdrwerxgryhrzi\ kugdpfZkdSfcLaaFX`EVaDUbCTbBScAQc9Pd9Od8Ne7Le6Kf5J\ f4Ig4HgDP`LXVUcPakJirDdsH`tKWuOSvROwUQsTRpTSlTUiTV\ eTWbTYZTZWT_ST`PT_RSZTSYUSXWRWYRVZRU`QTbQScQRePQgP\ PhPRgRTgTVgVXgXZgZ_f_afacfcefegfghehjejlelnenpepqe\ qfcnWakM`hBZe1YcTLkt9sholfnmemmclmbkmajm_imZhnXgnW\ fnVenTdnScnRbnWXl`SkdMjiHhmBgr6fv1em4_dAVWFQOKLQPK\ SUKUZJVcJXhJZmI`rIavIczHezHfzHbzKZzNVzQRzTNzVJzYFz\ `Bzc7zf4zh5zg5zg6zg6zg7zf7zf7zf8zf8zf9ze9zeAzeAzeA\ zeDzfGzgJzhLzhQz_UzSYzJazBXzHTzMOzSKzXGzaBzg7zl3zq\ 4zp4zo4zn5zm5zl5zk6zk6zj6zi7zh7zg7zf7zf9zgBzgDzgFz\ hHzhJzhLzhNziPziRziSziUzj } frm:MandelbrotBC2 { ; by several Fractint users e=p1, a=imag(p2)+100, p=real(p2)+PI q=2*PI*floor(p/(2*PI)), r=real(p2)-q Z=C=Pixel: Z=log(Z) IF(imag(Z)>r) Z=Z+flip(2*PI) ENDIF Z=exp(e*(Z+flip(q)))+C |Z|<a } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================