#################################################### Jim Muth's FoTD for Dec 28, '04 text says: that the full basic Mandelbrot-like shape "...main bud faces north. This bud has undergone some curious distortions, with major discontinuities and several broad disconnected filaments shooting off in various directions." I wanted to see what he was describing so I repeatedly zoomed his fractal out until the full Mandelbrot-like shape was on the screen. I rotated the figure to better fit the screen and rotated the color map to suit my taste. The result is a pleasing variation of the original Mandelbrot set. The corresponding .par file is included below. I use Robin Bussell's free Paste 'n' Go utility to quickly launch the rendering of many of Jim's Fractals of The Day. Paste 'n' Go is a Windows(tm) program that, with one click, puts the contents of the Windows clipboard into a .par file and launches Fractint pointing to that file. It can even remove the "3D"s after equals signs with a single push of a button when you find them in certain older .par files. The program has additional useful features. I avoided using parameter and formula files with Fractint for a long time. When I got Robin's Paste 'n' Go program several years ago, these files became so easy to use I found that I was using them quite often. Note that if you put the text frm: in front of the formula file (as Jim does) that you can include the formula *inside* the .par file following the .par information. Having these four characters present allows you to avoid the additional step of separately pasting the formula into Paste 'n' Go's 'Formula Text' window. http://web.ukonline.co.uk/robin.b2/pastengo.htm has a screenshot, description of usage and download link for Paste 'n' Go. Recommended. Paste 'n' Go uses the Microsoft Visual Basic runtime DLLs. If you discover that you don't have these when you try to use Paste 'n' Go, the current self-extracting executable version of these files (1MB) is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ba9d7924-4122-44af- 8ab4-7c039d9bf629&displaylang=en I recommend using the current DLLs version (above) instead of the older version available on Robin's web page. - Hal Lane ######################### # hallane@earthlink.net # ######################### START PARAMETER FILE======================================= SeashoreSeashells2 {; Hal Lane Dec 29,04 2:18 P400 1024x768 ; Jim Muth's FoTD Dec 28, '04 zoomed ; out to show the full basic Mandelbrot- ; like shape. Color map is rotated. reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=pastengo.par formulaname=mandelbrotbc2 passes=1 center-mag=-0.00189401/0.488882/0.8314187/1/-90/-1.2\ 3373533611470521e-014 params=2.02/0/77/0 float=y maxiter=1500 inside=0 proximity=3 outside=fmod periodicity=10 sound=off colors=000mmwkIz<4>mFzmFzmEznEznDzoCz<21>ogzoizojz<3\

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frm:MandelbrotBC2 { ; by several Fractint users e=p1, a=imag(p2)+100 p=real(p2)+PI q=2*PI*floor(p/(2*PI)) r=real(p2)-q Z=C=Pixel: Z=log(Z) IF(imag(Z)>r) Z=Z+flip(2*PI) ENDIF Z=exp(e*(Z+flip(q)))+C |Z|<a } END PARAMETER FILE====================================== ######################################################## -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.6.6 - Release Date: 12/28/04