FOTD -- February 09, 2005 (Rating 6) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's image returns us once again to a fault line of the parent fractal that was the source of the two most recent FOTD's. We trace the fault line farther from its source in the southern branch of a prominent valley, and follow it to where it begins to disintegrate into chaos. There, very well hidden, lies the midget that forms the nucleus for today's image. Once again, the most satisfactory version of the scene is produced by evaporating it and rendering the ghostly 'inside' remnants with the inside=bof61 option. Fractal evaporation is what happens when fractals created with only negative exponents of Z are calculated with an extremely large escape radius, such as the googol of today's image, in which none of the points will ever escape to infinity. The result is an image composed totally of trapped 'inside' points. In today's image, the central midget is still too small to be seen, but the fault-line arcs that surround it are impressive. These closed arcs remind me of the blades of the exhaust fan on my old, worn-out but still faithful fractal-dedicated machine, which usually need to be nudged into motion by hand when the machine is turned on. I named the image "Fan Blades". The image pleases me about as much as did yesterday's. I therefore rated it at another 6. But it is a rather unusual appearing scene, worth the 9-plus minutes required to render it on my old machine, and the fewer minutes it will take to render on current units. But some current units choke on old 'DOS' programs such as Fractint. For the convenience of those with handicapped computers, the completed image has been posted ready for download on the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> The philosophy continues as promised in the philofractal version of today's FOTD discussion. The Tuesday weather here at Fractal central was absolutely perfect, with a spring-like high temperature of 59F 15C and lots of sun. The fractal cats spent most of the afternoon out of sight in the holly thicket at the bottom of the yard, watching the birds clear away the last of the berries. No tuna was needed to make their evening happy. This morning is again starting mild, but it is cloudy and rain is forecast for later today. The duo might have a satisfactory day if they go outdoors early enough. For me the work is average. This means an evening of adventure in Fractal Land. The best of what I find there will appear as tomorrow's FOTD. Until then, take care, and if we can see it, hear it, and touch it, it must be really real. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Fan_Blades { ; time=0:09:14.25--SF5 on a P200 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+0.27793976973538160/-1.956885037216322\ 00/1.25203e+012/1/22.5/0.00019039609301178817 params=5/-1.26/0.5/-12.6/0/1e+100 mathtolerance=/1 maxiter=1600 inside=bof61 periodicity=10 float=y colors=000XFSTFTQGTNGTKHUGHUDIVAIV7IVCMZGPbLTePWiU\ ZmYbpbetfhwgguhftierjdqkcplbnmamnalo`jp_iqZgrYfsXe\ tWcuVbuVatY_s_YraXqdVpfUohSnkRmmPloOZiULc_MYUNSOOM\ IPHCUGEZGFcFGhFHXIZLKpPImTHkXFi`EgdDegBckAao9_s7Yw\ 6Wz5UuATqFSmKRiPQeUPaZPVVSOSUHPWAMY3J_8LUDMPINKMOF\ 86CC5GG5KK4NN4RR3VV3YZ2aa2ee1hi1lm0pp0sk2mf4gb5aY7\ WU8QPAKLBFMAINALNAOOAROATPAWQAZQAaRAdRAfSAiTAlTAoU\ ArUAtSGrQMqORpMXoKbnJgmHenFcnEanC_oAYo9Xo8_l7ai7cf\ 6ec5h`5jY4lV3oS3qP2sM2uJ5qI8mHBiHDeGGaFJYFLUEOQERM\ DTICWECVABI35RCMgHWkMenRok`bhbRmrFcnGkkH_gIddJW`JU\ YKSULQRMONNMKNKGOIDPG9QE6RC3RCShCyzDqzDozDlzDetDbs\ DZrDWpESoEPnENlEKkEIjEFhEDgEBfKFkQJpWNu`RyaRvbSsbS\ pcRmdRjdRgeRdfQafQZgQWhPThPQiPNiPKjYGjfDjoAjx7iuCi\ rGioKhlPhiThfXgcag`egYifVnfSrfPvfNzjMtnMnqLiuLcxLZ\ wIWvGTuEQtCNsALr8Iq6Fp4Co29o0774_85b95dA5fB5hC5jD6\ mE6oF6qG6sH6uH6wK8vbER_ES } frm:MandelbrotMix4 {; 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, 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=========================================