F.O.T.D., September 28, 1997 (Pollock) Fractal visionaries: Today's prize-winner fractal is named in honor of that not quite so famous American abstract artist, J. Pollock. The resemblance to the paint drippings which made him almost famous is apparent. I achieved such an effect by taking a nondescript Rectangular plane fractal and redoing it with the inside fill set to epsilon cross. I'm not sure how this option achieves its effects. I think it colors the image according to whether the points' orbits come closest to the real or imag axis. Until recently I had never used this option, considering such a fancy fill method artificial, but I have now had second thoughts about fractals. There is no such thing as a "natural" or "pure" fractal other than the bare formula. And since a natural frac- tal doesn't exist, it makes no sense to try to maintain fractal purity. And since I no longer must try to keep my fractals pure, I will be able to use the entire range of Fractint's coloring options without compunction. For best effect, today's fractal should be drawn at a minimum resolution of 1024x768, to prevent the streaks of paint from breaking up. The finished image is available at: http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html Until tomorrow then, may your fractals be infinitely beautiful. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START 19.6 FILE============================================= pollock { ; 17 seconds on a P200--SF5 reset=1960 type=formula formulafile=jim.frm formulaname=Rectangular passes=1 center-mag=-7.\ 77156e-016/-2.05391e-015/1.369962/0.6701 params=0.42/0.33 float=y maxiter=500 bailout=100 inside=epsiloncross logmap=yes symmetry=origin periodicity=10 colors=000Wgq00ZTal<4>LN_000HHVGETEBQzsfz0dD8O\ <6>ObZm``db_Xd_KhZ<6>q`dg9z<3>rVhu_dve_vjWgEJnRM\ ucPvoSenU3yL<9>gYkHRiOSjYFK<12>BQiGBN<4>9Up8Yv4r\ N5l`6fn7`zHdvRhqQ_A`np<5>`hd`gb`fa`e`<12>`ZTUZE\ <8>mZugrnkhtklzmgznbz<2>rQusLsv8y<7>nd_Dyz<9>Spf\ <9>OfiOeiPbe<2>NgqMhuNmzMkz<5>LaoL`mLZj<5>KPZCQW\ <10>XKYTDl<6>aQNcOH<12>Xa`XbaWed<4>UrqBkzFmz<4>Y\ vraxpgzqfzp<3>bwoavnatn<4>XolZrm<7>Tbl`pyZmvXjs } frm:Rectangular {; Jim Muth z=flip(real(pixel))+real(p1), c=flip(imag(pixel))+imag(p1): z=sqr(z)+c, |z| <= 36 } END 19.6 FILE===============================================