FOTD -- February 16, 2005 (Rating 8) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: When the time arrived to name today's image, I remembered one of the greatest disappointments of my childhood -- the evening when my father explained to me that the professional wrestling exhibition I was watching on TV was not a true competitive sport, but rather an entertaining show. The whole thing is an act, he told me. The wrestlers have a script, and the winner of the match is written in the script, he explained. I had already begun to suspect that something about the 'sport' was not as it appeared, and was truly let down to hear that my heroes were mere theatrical performers presenting a pre-arranged show. A couple weeks later my father took me to a wrestling match at a local college so that I could see the real thing. Without the theatrics, the real thing was totally boring. I soon lost interest entirely in wrestling. The name "Broken Arms", which I gave to today's image, is an attempt to capture the spirit of excitement I felt when I saw those theatrical wrestlers performing on TV, with all the phony blood and broken bones, and assumed that I was watching the real thing. Of course, bones were rarely actually broken in professional wrestling, just as no bones are broken in today's image. Broken bones are impossible in a fractal because fractals have no bones. Fractals are nothing more than one of the things we people have decided to do with numbers. Today's image rates an 8. This rating might be a bit overblown, but the image is still a rather striking 'evaporated' one, which was found in the parent fractal of yesterday's FOTD fractal. The render time of over 26 minutes is slow, so I advise downloading the finished product from the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> Tuesday was near perfect here at Fractal Central. The weather brought warm afternoon sun and a temperature of 61F 16C. These pleasant conditions made the fractal cats so happy that they passed the entire afternoon in the holly thicket. Only the tiniest treat of tuna was needed in the evening. This morning is starting in a similar manner, but rain is forecast for later this afternoon. Maybe the duo can have their outdoor time before the rain arrives. For me, it looks like another in the unending string of near- average days coming up. The next FOTD will apepar in 24 hours. The next philosophy, which may be believed or not, will take a few more days. Until tomorrow's FOTD, take care, and one can enjoy as many fractals as they wish, and never gain a gram. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Broken_Arms { ; time=0:26:23.44--SF5 on a P200 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+3.91423377864804300/+0.003269821435727\ 34/1.930907e+008/1/-132.5/-1.81908083652371211e-005 params=-5/-1.26/-0.5/-12.6/0/1e+100 float=y maxiter=6000 inside=bof61 periodicity=10 colors=000nfIrhIviIthJsgKrfLqeModNncOmbPzeQk`Rw_Sh\ ZTgYUfXVeWVbXT_XRXXPUXORXMOXKLXJJ`OIdSGgWFk_EocCrg\ Bvkmyomxmmwl00kG0jmuiJ0gmtfmtemsdmrcmramq`mp_mpZmo\ YwoXX0Zwp`wpbwqdwqf`0hwrjwrlcrncrpYhjTZeNP`IGWLJZO\ L`RNbUPdXRgZTiaWkdYmg_pjarmctoevnftnfrngpngnnhmnhk\ niinignjenjdlVmjGucIpYJkSKgMLbGMYANUIVfPbsOfgNjXMm\ MLqBKt0Mo2Ok4Qg5Sb7UZ8WVAYRB_MDaIEcEGeAHm_KtyNlvUe\ s_ZpeSmkLjqNllOmgPnbRoYSpTTqONXDHD2NQBSbKXnSZiN`eI\ aaDeYFhVGkSInPJqMKtJMwGNzDOrBMj9Lb7KW6IO4HG2G91FB2\ HD2IF3JH3KJ3ML4NN4OP0PR0QT0SV0TX6UZ0V_6Wa5Tc5Qe5Og\ 5Li5Jj5Gl5Dn5Bp58r56t53u51u72u83uA4SXjRWjQVjOUiNTi\ MSiKQiJPiIOhHNhFMhELhDJhCIgAHg9Gg8Fg5Ci7Eg8FeAGdBH\ bDIaEJ_GKZHLXJMWKOUMPTNQRPRQQSOSTNTULVVKWWIXXH`TId\ PIhLIkIIoEJsAJw6Jz3Jy5My6Oy7Qy8Sx9UxAWxBYxC_wDawEc\ wFfwGhvHjvIlvJnvKpuLruMtuNvuOxrPvpQunQslRrjSphSofT\ ndUlbUk`ViZVhXWfVXeTXdRYb } frm:MandelbrotMix4 {; 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, 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=========================================