FOTD -- November 17, 2004 (Rating 6) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's fractal was created with the 'manowar' formula, a formula that draws Mandelbrot-type fractals. I have no idea why the formula was given such a name. Maybe the writer got the formula to draw something that resembles a man-of-war. While working with the formula, I was struck by the fact that the images it draws seem to have no truly trapped points. All the apparent inside areas that I was able to find can be filled in by a sufficiently large maxiter. Sometimes, the maxiter must be as large as 1,000,000,000 but the end result is always an image with no trapped points. I did these fill-in tests at a very small image size however, so I could have missed a truly open area or two. Today's scene lies in a perturbed parent fractal. It is a very fine example of the type of feature I call a dry lake. These 'dry lakes' start out with the symmetry that indicates a midget lying at their center, but the lakes eventually dry up, as has happened at the center of today's image, which is quite symmetri- cal but has no midget. I named the image "Man-of-War Jungle". I gave it this name because it was created with the manowar formula and some of the elements look a bit like palm trees. Other viewers might see something else in the image, but I see a jungle. The rating of a 6 is perhaps a bit high, but I did put some extra effort into the coloring, and IMO this justifies the name. The render time of over 6 minutes results in an overall worth of 94. The man-of-war may be seen more conveniently by downloading the completed GIF image from the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> The temperature reached 65F 18C here at Fractal Central on Tuesday. The wind was light and the sun was bright. These are perfect conditions for fractal cats, who, like all other cats, demand comfort. The fractal ones were out from 11am until sunset, which is before 5pm at this time of year. They were so tired when they came in that they almost forgot to eat. Today is starting just as warm but with more clouds. The duo should once again be comfortable. With no huge work backup before me, my comfort depends only on finding a proper fractal in the next formula. Check here tomorrow to see my degree of comfort. Until then, take care, and find happiness lies in the fourth dimension. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Man-of-War_Jungle { ; time=0:06:23.05--SF5 on a P200 reset=2004 type=manowar center-mag=-0.005780030929\ 82347/+0.01506436629442627/270932.9/1/-2.5/6.57777\ 304846618449e-012 params=-0.04035188397285378/0.18\ 03508718197241 float=y maxiter=3500 bailout=9 inside=255 logmap=627 periodicity=10 passes=1 colors=000aQl`Rk_SjZTiYUhXVgWWfVXeUYdTZcS_aR`_QaYP\ bWOcUScRSaOS_LTYITW9TUCTSGUQFVOEWMDXK8YIAXGCWFDVFF\ UGHTGIRGKQGMPHNOHPNHRNJPMIRMHSMHTMGUMFWMFXMEYMEZLD\ `LCaLCbLBcLAcKAcJ9cI3cH9cG9cFCcEEcDHbFJYHMUJOQLRMN\ TOPWQQWSRYUS_WTaYTb_Xca_dcbeeffgigilhkmimnjooinojj\ oilohioggofdoebod`ocYobWoaTo`Ro_OnZMlZLjYKiWOfUScR\ WZP_TOcMOg2Ri3Uj4Yl5am7eo8ip9mrAqsBstCrrDppEnoElmF\ ikGgjHehHcgI`eJZcKXbKV`LSZMQYNOWHFaKJYNMVPPSSTPVWM\ XZJ_bGbeDcfCcgBdgAbfB`eC_cCYbDWaEV_ETZFRYGQWGOVHMU\ ILSIJRJFRGIQJKTMMXPO_SQbUSfXUi_WmbYpeZi`Zg`ZeVZcPZ\ aHZ_IZXJZVKZTKZSL_QM`QNaSNbUOcVPeVQfVQgWRhYSiZSiZS\ j_SleJnj8pmBqoEpmHpjKogNmdRmaPn_OoYNoXMpXKqYJqYIrZ\ HsZFsZEt_Du_Cu_BteHskNrmTqnUpkUnhVmfVkcWj`WiYWgWXf\ TXdQYcNYbLYaRZaX_ab``ha_iaah`c`_eU_gMZiFYk7Xm0Xp2c\ r4it5ot8ptBqtDqtGrtIstLstNttQutSutVvtXwt_wtaxtdytf\ yo`okVffPYbJPYDGU77W95XB4 } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================