FOTD -- January 14, 2009 (Rating 7) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: An unexpected last-minute change on a job we thought was already finished left little time for fractal diversion on Tuesday. But the MandAutoCritInZ formula makes interesting fractals almost automatically, and using it, I found an emergency image in a few minutes. The parent fractal is one of those double minus things with a prominent fan extending east from the origin. Today's image is located in a small valley at the edge of the fan. I named the image "Less Than Nothing", which probably refers to the effort I put into it. The rating of a 7 seems fair. The calculation time of 9 minutes may be avoided by surfing to the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> and viewing the finished image there. Cloudy skies, a temperature of freezing and occasional periods of snow kept the fractal cats in poor spirits here at Fractal Central on Tuesday. The changes to a supposedly finished job kept me in poor spirits. The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and choose wisely. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Less_Than_Nothing { ; time=0:09:00.04-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basic.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+3.586569974821439/-0.00067185136372234\ /8.07787e+008/1/102.5/0 params=-5/-1.25/-0.5/-7.3/\ 0/0/0/0 float=y maxiter=4200 inside=0 logmap=700 periodicity=10 colors=000KHK5J`FWn_HzgpGZhLR`PITTAMXNCRZ3Mw42cG8L\ SE2cJ9WOFOSMGXS8`Y0dM6nBCxPJcbQKpW0feEXnSNwdMubMs`\ MqZMoXMmVQ_WUNXXAYTI`PPcMWfIbiFilBpo8wqFvnLvkSuiYu\ fdtdjtapt_b_WQGTNLQLQNIVKG_HDdEBiB9n8FkALhCReEXcFb\ `HhYJmWK5wJ4rM4mP4iS3dV3`Y0MW3Sczzzauibpjclldgmebn\ fZpgUqgQrcOs_NtXLuTKvPJwMHxIGyFFyLDwRCuXBsbAqh9on8\ mt7ky6ir5ll4nf4p`3rU2tO2vI1xC1zG5uK8pOBkSEfWHa_KXc\ NTdKUdHUeEUeCUf9Vf6Vg3Vg1Vb3_Z5cU7gQ9kLBoHDsDEwAuW\ 2wT3xS3xR3xQ3xQ3xP3xO3xOLjYaXgrJpkPjdVeZ`_SfVLlPFq\ KRsObtSnvWzwZyq`ykbyedy`fAnAIiMQeXY`heXs0m`1kb1jd1\ hf1gh2ej2dl2bn2ap9TnLdASgE_jHnmLzpOzsRzrQzrQzrQzrP\ zqPzqPzqOzqOzpOmzNmzNlzNkzMkzMjzMRmDiominmhnmgnmfn\ mfmmemmdmmdmmclmblmalmalm`km_km_lHZkGYjGYjGXjFWjFV\ iFViKUiPTiUThZShcRhhbimajrakvalzamz`nz`oz`pz`qz`rz\ _sz_tz_uz_vz_wzZxzZyzZzzZzzYzzYzzYzzYzzYzzXzzXzzXz\ zXzzXzzWzzWzzWzzWzzVzzVzz } 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=========================================