FOTD -- September 07, 2003 (Rating 4) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: I must be developing amnesia. When I checked my e-mail box this morning I found about a dozen letters from different people telling me that I was great last night but could still use some improvement. Then there were four more people who had seen my profile online and wanted to meet me. There were four who had met me in a chat room. I had three letters that gave the information I had requested. And several letters simply said something like 'hey' or 'hi' or 'how're ya', or 'Jane told me you are too small', or the most mysterious of all -- 'dgins hebs oihndy fgotushn eod'. Finally, I wonder why the billing depart- ment at Mindspring wanted me to re-submit my credit card number to confirm that the number is correct. The number has been working as it should for 7 years. What has me worried is that I have no memory of being with twelve different people in one night, or of having my profile online. I have totally forgotten visiting any chat rooms, and I don't remember requesting any information. I have no memory at all of those many people who sent me greetings. I also wonder who this Jane is who thinks I am too small. My height is just about average. As for that message in a foreign language -- it might be important, but I can't read it. Finally, I wonder why my latest credit card statement shows a balance of $8,758.63, when last month it was $176.53 and I paid that in full and have charged nothing since then. (The first paragraph is true; the second is frivolous. Every few weeks I need a short rant about spam...) ...especially when the FOTD doesn't turn out too well. For today's image I tried the same trick that worked so well in yesterday's image. But it didn't work at all in today's image. I named the image A No-Repeat Fractal" because it's apparently impossible to repeat the same trick and get an equally fine result. I rated the image at a meager 4. The image was generated with the MandelbrotMix3a formula, which does nothing but permit 4 different exponents of Z to be combined in different portions, and permits the initial value of Z to be adjusted to a critical value of the formula. In today's case, zero is a critical value, so the (p5) parameter remains at zero. The biggest drawback is the time required to render the image -- over one hour on my machine. I strongly recommend giving Paul and Scott time to generate the image and post it to their web sites before going there to download the image. Paul's site is found at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> Scott's is at: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> Near-perfct weather prevailed once again Saturday here at Fractal Central. The bright sun, dry grass and temperature of 79F 26C produced near-perfect cats. They had such a pleasant day in the yard that by the time they came in, they wanted to do nothing but grab a few bites of food and fall asleep. If they were still kittens, I would say they are at their best behavior when they are sleeping, but now that they are fully mature, they sleep far too much for sleep to be considered their best behavior. Today looks to be a repeat of yesterday, so I expect we'll do it all again. The duo is already romping in the yard. I'll be back in 24 hours with a new and fresh fractal, not another inferior imitation. Until then, take care, and be peaceful. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ A_NoRepeat_Fractal { ; time=1:08:11.40--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix3a function=ident passes=1 center-mag=+0.92952219950070970/+0.209587282531303\ 70/1.545435e+009 params=-2/2/1/3/0.5/4/0.25/5/0/0 float=y maxiter=1200 inside=fmod proximity=0.15 outside=tdis logmap=yes periodicity=10 colors=000Zah_eg_if`meaqdatdbpbcmadi`efZfbYg_XhXWi\ TUjQTkMSlJQmFPnCOn9NoFQpLTqQVrWYs`_q_`pZaoYbnXcmWd\ lVekUfjTfiSghRhgQifPjeOkdNlcMmbLmYJ`THOPFCXGHcGMjH\ RqHWxH`ySUzbNzmHvkGsjGphGmgGjeGgdGccG`aGY`GVZGSYGP\ XGRUETSDVPBXNAZK8`I7aF5bD4cA2d81e60e74e78f8Bg8Fi9J\ i9MkAQlAUmBXnB`pCdqCgUPpUPpUPp6ay9bwBcvEduGdtJerLf\ qOfpQgoThmVhlYik_jjajiajhajhcljenkfplhrmjtngXyhZti\ `pjbljcgkeclg_lhWmjRnlNonJooEpqAqs6qt2fkEWbQLUaBLl\ HMnMMoRMpWMr`MsfNtkNvpNwuNxzNy_mrRYnIJj94gCBiEHkGN\ mJToLZqNdrGei9e`2eS4dR5cR6bR7aR8aQ9`QA_QBZQCZQASR8\ LR7FR58R42R57S5BT5GU6KV6PW6TX7XY7aZ7e_8j`8na8rbEse\ JthOujUumZvocwrhwtetqbqo`nlYkjVigTfeQcbN``LYYIWWFT\ TDQRANO7KM5IKirIirLirN8EQ9DSACVBAXC9_D8aE7dF6fJEdM\ LcQSaTZ`XeZ_lYcsWfzVawTYtSUqQQnPMkNIhMEeKAbJBaKBaK\ BaKBaLBaLBaLBaLCaMCaMCaMCaNCaNCaNCaNEcTFdYHebIggKh\ lLiqMjvNciOXXWNlXRkYVjYYi } frm:MandelbrotMix3a {; Jim Muth z=real(p5), c=fn1(pixel), a=real(p1), b=imag(p1), d=real(p2), f=imag(p2), g=real(p3), h=imag(p3), j=real(p4), k=imag(p4), l=imag(p5)+100: z=(a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f))+(g*(z^h))+(j*(z^k))+c, |z| <=l } END 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE==================================