FOTD -- April 14, 2010 (Rating 8) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: I put near an hour of effort into trying to make something of yesterday's image, and I achieved nothing. In today's case, a single strike of the <enter> key told the program to supply the coloring. Fractint did an admirable job. All I had to do was a bit of tweaking. The parent fractal, and of course the image itself, came about when I combined 7 negative parts of Z^(-1.1) with one negative part of Z^(-6.2) and added (1/C) on each iteration. This parent is a tremendously over-sized thing. Only a tiny part of it fits on the default opening screen, which has a magnitude of 0.67. Today's image is located inside a huge terminal ring far to the south-southwest of the opening screen. The rating of an 8 means I consider the image good enough to be worth 8 points. The name "A Plethora of Ohs" does not imply gasps of surprise at the sight of the finished image. It refers to the countless bright O-shaped circles scattered throughout the scene. (Actually a plethora means too much of a good thing.) The calculation time of 1-3/4 minutes is brief enough to bring impatience to no one but the most impatient. Total satisfaction for even these few may be found on the FOTD web site at: <http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/> where the image is or soon will be posted for instant and total satisfaction. Lots of clouds were overhead here at Fractal Central on Tuesday, though the expected rain slipped by to the south. The tempera- ture of 55F 13C was a bit too chilly for the fractal cats, who actually never worry about outdoor conditions, because they never have the chance to venture outside in the first place. My day was moderately busy; Wednesday should be the same. The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and I have thousands of photographs of fractals, but I have yet to see a single real fractal being photographed. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= A_Plethora_of_Ohs { ; time=0:01:44.04-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=recip passes=1 center-mag=-132.269361791939/-60.73661716766502/\ 1.53313e+009/1/-86/0 params=-7/-1.1/-1/-6.2/0/0/0/0 float=y maxiter=1000 inside=0 logmap=63 periodicity=0 mathtolerance=0.05/1 colors=000AAAAABMAAAACLAAAAELAAAAGKAAFAIKBAFCLJDAH\ EOJFAJGPIHOIHUIIZIIUHIUHIUHIUHIUGIUGIUGIUGIUFIUFJU\ FJGzJcmJGAJFzJczJEzJEzJcwJDzJzCKmCKCCKCCKBBKBBKBBK\ AzcAzcAzc9zc9zz9zzzzzzzzAzzAzzAzzAzzAzzAzzAzzBzzBz\ zczzBzzczzBzzczzBzzczzBzzczzCzzczzCzzczzCzzczzCzzz\ zjCzzzziDzzzzhEzzzzgFzzzzfGzzzzeHzzzzdIzzzzcJzbKzz\ KzaLzzLzaLzzMz`MzzNz_NzzOzZOzzPzzPzXQzzQzWRzzRzzSz\ zSzzTzzTzzUzzUzzUzzVzzVzzWzzWzzXzzXzzazzYzzYzzZzzZ\ zz_zz_zz`zz`zzazzazzHzzLzzOzzSzzVzzZzzDzzEzzFzzFzz\ GzzHzzHzzIzzJzzJzzKzzLzzLzzMzzMzzNzzOzzOzzPzzQzzQz\ zRzzSzzSzzTzzUzzUzzVzzVzzWzzXzzXzzYzzZzzZzz_zz`zz`\ zzazzbzzazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz } frm:MandAutoCritInZ {; 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)+(p4)), 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=========================================