FOTD -- September 19, 2009 (Rating 7) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: We're still in the same area of the same parent fractal of the past 3 or 4 days. The little minibrot at the center has been livened up by rendering the scene with the outside set to 'tdis' and the inside colored a brilliant white. The rating of a 7 is becoming so average that I might change the rating system to make such images rate an average 5 rather than an above-average 7. The name "Terrible Terraces" makes little sense, but then fractals and even life itself make little sense, so why not give the image such a name. The calculation time of 1-1/2 minutes is fast enough to prevent impatience yet slow enough for a bit of enjoyment. Total enjoy- ment may be found on the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> where the image is posted fully finished for total satisfaction. Mostly sunny skies and a temperature of 77F 25C here at Fractal Central on Friday made up for the fractal cats' disappointment on Thursday. They enjoyed their sunny shelf to the maximum. My day would have been average if one of the customers had not unexpectedly added a full-page ad to his 16-page program, which made it necessary to re-work 8 of the 16 pages. When the late ad came in, I showed a bit of temper and FL asked if I thought my angry outburst would help the situation. When I said that temper displays only make things worse, she asked me why then was I wasting so much energy. I told her that I had gotten angry not to help things, but because we had to do half the already-finished job over, which put the discussion back where it started. To keep the argument from going in a circle, we let it drop and got to work, me grumbling and FL remaining silent. But I think I should have answered her with something like, "since you have reminded me that anger will do no good, I now realize that I am only making things worse. I have decided to calm down and do the job in a sensible manner . . . and after all, we *will* get extra money for re-doing half the job." Now that the silly "Dear Abby" style advice is out of the way, I must disclose the great news that the next FOTD is scheduled to be posted in 24 hours. But since perfect weather is expected on Saturday, do not be surprised if it fails to appear until some- time Sunday. Until whenever, take care, and I hear the world will end in 824 days. Hmmmm . . . maybe I'll do a count-down. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Terrible_Terraces { ; time=0:01:29.37-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=ident center-mag=-0.3519918957555/-0.0011234773843/\ 1.42084e+008/1/161/0 params=1/4/2/3/0/0/0/0 float=y maxiter=1500 inside=255 outside=tdis periodicity=10 colors=000VwHUuSTtbSrmRqxNnwJkwFhvBev7bvJWkVQ`eKRb\ PN_UKXZGVbDSg9Pl6Np3No5No7Nn9NnBSgJW`R_UZcNfgGnkAu\ eAo`AiWAcRAYMASHAMCAHSdfdefpefumkztpmjoaanQSmEcl2c\ k7UgBKdFH`KKYOMUSORWQOSRMPRLLRJIRIESGBSF7SD4SC9XHD\ `MIeQMiVRnZVrcZvgQqhHmh8ii0ei9imHmpQpsYtvewy_vlVu_\ QtNRoORkORgORcOR_ORWORSOROOZWNfcNnkNurNomQihTdcWZZ\ ZUUaOPdJKfFUfCcf9mfJneSodapcjqbsqamgUgZNaPFXG8fEOo\ CbxBqtDlpEglGbhHZdJU`KPXMKTNGOSNJWTE`_AdeFjdKpcOub\ LkVIaNFSFCI7A80BFBCMMDTWE_fFfpPUcZIS`ORaTQbYPcbOdg\ NelMfqLgvLWYTLA`ZR_kgZxxYpvUhtR`rOTqKLoHDmE5lB7mL9\ mUBmbCmkMpmWsodvqbxoazn`qj_if_`cZT_ZKXYCTY4QTBMOII\ JOEEVA9a64g2Bc9I`FPXMVUSaQYhNdoJjuGpqJknLfkNbhPYdS\ TaUPZWKWYGNSYENoJJqOGrTDtY9ub6wg3xl0yaBXSM5QP9ORDM\ UHLWLJYPH`TFbXEd_OcUXbOeaIn`Cw_7v`Jv`Vu`fu`rvZpvXo\ wVmwTlxRjxPiyNgyMfsJcnG`iEYcBWZ9TU6QP4OYF_fQjn`uA9\ MjzEVV`UWYT_WjrfetV`wIzzz } 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=========================================