FOTD -- June 05, 2008 (Rating -- No Way!) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's FOTD is a living corpse. Due to a pile of rush work, I had no time to do a reasonable FOTD. The image should have been discarded along with the day's discussion. But, undecided as to what to do with the fractal, I flipped a coin and it came up heads, so I posted the image and took about 5 minutes to write these few words. What is there to say about an image such as today's, which is nothing more than a mass of angular color patches splashed on the screen. The two heptagonal shapes near the center are actually 7-sided holes brought to life by the 'zmag' inside fill. The name "Two of a Kind" refers to these two heptagons. I must admit that the calculation time of 9-1/3 minutes for such a junky image is a real rip-off. Avoid being rooked by viewing the finished image on the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> One thing for sure is that I don't hesitate to attack my own work when I think it falls short. Heavy clouds in the morning led to over 2 inches, 56mm, of rain in the afternoon here at Fractal Central on Wednesday, while the temperature hung around a very muggy 72F 22C. The fractal cats made the best of the wet conditions. As today's ho-hum fractal shows, my day was very busy. But things should be slower by tomorrow, and the next fractal will most likely be a vast improvement. Until then, take care, and keep trying. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Two_of_a_Kind { ; time=0:09:18.54-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+1.991689647207679/-1.720847520343586/\ 1608193/1/90/0 params=-25.3/-1.1/-2.3/-11/0/800/0/0 float=y maxiter=1750 inside=zmag periodicity=10 colors=0007AX78W68V37V68U89TAASCBSEBRGCQIDQKEPMFOO\ FOQGNSHMUILWILYJK_KJaLJcMIeMHgNHiOGkPFkLBlNDmPFmRG\ nTIoVJoXLpZMq`OsfNrdOqbPpaQo_RnZRnXSmWTlUUkTUjRVjQ\ WiOXhNXgLYfKZfI_eH_dF`cEabCb_8ZaA`bBbcCddEeeFgfGif\ ImgHjhGhiFejFckEakDZlDXmCVnBSoAQpAOp9Lq8Jr8Hs7Et6C\ v1Bu4At6As9ArBAqEApGAoJ9nL9mO9lQ9kT9jV9iY9h_8gb8fd\ 8eg8di8cl8cn8blBbkDbiFbhHbfJaeLacNabQa`Sa_UaYW`XY`\ V_`Ua`Sd`Rf_Pi_Ol_Mo_Lq_JvaLw`Jt_IrZHpYGmXFkWDiVCg\ UBdTAbS9`R8ZUAWXBTZCQaDOdELfGIiHFlIDnJAqK7wN6sL5pK\ 5mJ5jI5gH5dG5aE4ZD4WC4SB4PA4M94J73G63D53A437334231\ 1333544655867978B89C9BEACFCDHDFIEGKFHLGJMHKOILPJNR\ LOSMPUNRVOSXPTYQV_RW`SXaQY_PZYO_XN_VM`UKaSJaQIbPHc\ NGcMEdKDeICfHBfFAgE8hC7hA6i95j75j34j64j94jB4jE3jH3\ jJ3jM3jP2jR2jU2jW2jZ2ja1jc1jf1ji1gk0dm5amFZmPWmZTm\ hQmrNkwKivHguFgtIhsLirNjqQjpTkoWlnZmmamlcnkfojipil\ phoqgrpgvnftk`khUcgKUbAK_ } 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=========================================