FOTD -- February 13, 2005 (Rating 7) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's image is a repeat of the theme of yesterday's fractal, where a midget is surrounded by concentric closed paths. But in today's image the scene has been evaporated and the remnants made visible by the 'bof61' inside fill, which is the only inside option that produces a worthwhile effect when applied to today's, and most other, evaporated scenes. The parent fractal is the same one that we have been working with for about a week now. To find today's image I examined one of the isolated areas of chaos that surrounds the main body of the fractal like an electron cloud surrounds an atom. (An electron cloud is where an atom's electrons might be located. Electrons have no definite locations in an atom until we deter- mine their locations by observing them.) The overall effect of the image is one of a lush tropical rain forest, and this is what I would have named it if I had not already named it "A Repeated Scene". But, bearing the best name or not, the image still rates a 7, and it renders in under 2 minutes. The image is available, already rendered, on the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> A brief flurry of snow an hour before noon on Saturday did not deter the duo, for when the snow passed off, the sun returned and the temperature rose to 50F 10C. This is not exactly balmy, but the cats took their coats with them when they went out. After a pleasant and uneventful afternoon, they returned indoors to enjoy their evening tuna. Today is starting much like yester- day, though I see no signs of snow showers. I expect a good day. I see little in store for myself today except fractals and TV. A do-nothing day is welcome now and then, but we would not want every day to be idle. I still have the philosophy to shape up however. So I'll set the chances at 50 percent that the next installment of philosophy will appear in the philofractal version of tomorrow's FOTD -- 80 percent that it will appear by Tuesday. But the chance that the next FOTD will appear in 24 hours is 99.99 percent. Until then, take care, and search for the light in a sea of darkness. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= A_Repeated_Scene { ; time=0:01:43.64--SF5 on a P200 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+7.37986268072519800/+0.388743317939182\ 40/7.894345e+007/1/-115/-2.35870500803342376e-005 params=5/-1.26/0.5/-12.6/0/1e+100 float=y maxiter=750 inside=bof61 periodicity=10 colors=0000zT0zo0zz0xz0vz0mz1iz3cz3_z4Tz6vz6Jy7Fx7\ Ax6Fr4Jm4vi3Sd3X`1`X1dY0iO0lP7gLDcQJ`MPPMVSO`gOgmG\ mzAozFoyIouLooPojSodVo_YpVapPdpLgpFjp9op4rp0up0xuJ\ Myf0vd0uc0sc0ra6p`Ao`Fm_LlYPjYTiX_gVcfVgdTmcSraSv`\ Tr`Vm_Vi_Xd_XaaXdcXffXggXijXjlXmoXopXpsXruXsvXusVr\ rTooSlmQjjPgiOdfMcdL`aJY`IXYGTXFQVDPXGMXJJXMGXODXQ\ CXT9XV6YY3Y`0Yc0Yd0Yg0Yj0Yl0Vl0Sl0Ql0Ol0Ll0Jl0Gl0F\ l0Cl09l07l04l01l00l00l00l00j11i44i77gCAfFDfIGdMJcP\ LcSOdQPfPSfOTgOXgMYiL`iLajJdjIflIilGjmFlmFfpLarQXs\ XSuaOvgIxmDys7zy3zz0zz3xz7rzClzGgxJauOXrSSoXMl_Gic\ Cfg6cl0`o0Yl0_i0_f0_c0_`0`Y0`V0`S0`P0aM0aJ0aG0aD0c\ A0c70c40c30a30a30a10a10a10`00`00`00`00`10Y30V40T60\ Q70P90MA0LC0ID0GF0DG0CI09J07L04M03L36J67I79GACFCDF\ FFDIICJJAML9OO7QP7SQAPTDMVGJXIGYLD_OCaP9cS6dV3fX0g\ _0ja0lc0mf0oi0pj0rl0lm0fo0`o0Vp0Pr0Jr0Ds07u11u30dC\ 0PJ3AQ69S99TA9VD9XF0u70x7 } 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=========================================