[Fractint] FOTD 15-03-03 (Floating Tree [9])

15 Mar 2003

      FOTD -- March 15, 2003 (Rating 9)

Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's fractal is one of my all-time best.  (IMO, of course)  
So I have rated it at a lofty 9, a rating achieved by very few 
previous images.  The image is actually a variation of an early 
FOTD image named Ice Tree, which will be included on the FOTD CD.

That earlier image has the tree firmly rooted in the ground, 
whereas today's variation shows it floating suspended in mid 
air.  The icy decoration from the earlier image is still coating 
the branches of the tree, and in addition, two ice-coated bushes 
appear at either side of the floating tree.

The image itself is a scene in the Z^1.5+C Julibrot, sliced in a 
direction rotated 4 degrees from the Julia direction toward the 
Elliptic direction.  Changing the exponent of Z a few hundredths 
in either direction causes curious variations in the character 
of the tree.

The coloring is entirely hand-done, and accounts for 99-percent 
of the image's worth.  An extra benefit is the short 2-minute 
render time of the parameter file.  Another good point is that 
the finished GIF image may be picked up from Paul's web site at:

          <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html>

and from Scott's site at:

          <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html>

The weather was sunny but quite chilly here at Fractal Central 
on Friday.  The morning low of 26F -3C and afternoon high of 41F 
5C kept the dynamic duo, which is no longer quite as dynamic, 
confined to the sunny porch, which has been cleared of debris 
but is still roofless.  They watched with interest as the 
meanest tomcat in the neighborhood passed by, finally deciding 
that discretion is the better part of valor and letting the 
intruder pass in peace.  Today was sunny and milder, and the 
neighborhood bully did not appear.  The duo spent almost an 
hour roaming the yard.

I'm still quite busy, both with the FOTD-CD and more profitable 
work, but the fractals will continue coming at a weekly rate 
while the disk is in work.  Until next Saturday, take care, and 
treat fractals with respect.

Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com
jimmuth@aol.com

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frm:multirot-XY-ZW-new {; draws 6 planes and rotations
;when fn1-2=i,f, then p1 0,0=M, 0,90=O, 90,0=E, 90,90=J
;when fn1-2=f,i, then p1 0,0=M, 0,90=R, 90,0=P, 90,90=J
a=real(p1)*.01745329251994, b=imag(p1)*.01745329251994,
z=sin(b)*fn1(real(pixel))+sin(a)*fn2(imag(pixel))+p3,
c=cos(b)*real(pixel)+cos(a)*flip(imag(pixel))+p4:
z=z^(p2)+c,
|z| <= 36 }

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