FOTD -- December 24, 2007 (Rating 8) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Our two-day diversion into the depths of the Mandelbrot set ends today, as we return to the parent fractal for December, a very rich fractal indeed. I named today's rather unusual image "Dried-Out But Good". The name reflects the evaporated state of the image. Images with negative exponents of Z will evaporate whenever the imag(p3) parameter is set to an extremely large number, such as the one- googol in today's parameter file. With such a distant escape radius, every point is trapped, resulting in a screen full of inside stuff. Though the outside stuff evaporates and vanishes when the value of the escape radius is increased, the inside stuff that takes its place retains a memory of the outside stuff it replaces. This is where Fractint's various inside fills become very useful. The active inside fills, such as bof61, can bring out the hidden detail in the remnant inside stuff. This is exactly what has happened today. Before I applied the bof61 inside fill, I was faced with a most disappointing blank black screen. But this fill made the ghost of the vanished image reveal itself to the world. The scene is located inside a ring in the extreme western exoburbs of the parent fractal for December. The rating of an 8 includes a whole point for the coloring, which I put almost an hour into, and which makes the entire scene. The calculation time of today's image, just over 2-1/2 minutes, is a vast improvement over the hours-long time of yesterday's very deep Mandelbrot scene. And as always, relief is at hand on the internet at the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> where the finished image is or soon will be posted for instant gratification. Heavy clouds and heavy showers, along with a temperature of 61F 16C, made Sunday here at Fractal Central unusually warm but fit for neither man nor beast. The fractal cats, being neither men nor beasts, but cats, whatever cats are, showed not the slight- est concern. I kept occupied most of Sunday making the final preparations for the holidays. And there was also one tiny job to wrap up. The next FOTD will appear in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and if absolute time doesn't exist, as relativity implies, what is it that appears to pass between one day and the next? Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Dried-Out_But_Good { ; time=0:02:39.26-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=recip passes=1 center-mag=-294.475271301/+33.1264441037/118788/1/\ 177.5/0 params=-2.475/-1.05/-0.275/-5.5/0/1e+100/0\ /0 float=y maxiter=1600 inside=bof61 periodicity=10 colors=000chEccCUZ9UY7KR4KO2AM05I00I00H00F00H10H20\ I41I51E727925A45C47E57F79H7AI9EK9FLAIMAKOCMPCOSERV\ ESYFVaFVdCXgAYe9Zd7Zc4``2aV1aP0cL0dK0eK0eI0gH0hF0h\ F0gH0gI0dK0eK0dL00M0cO1cO2cP4aR5aS7`S9`UAZVCZXEZXI\ `ZMa`RacUcdYdgadheekhgllgophptiswitzkwzlxzlzzkzxiz\ shzogziezedz`czXazR`zM`zMazMczMdzMezMgzMhzMizMkzMl\ zMnzMozMpzMrzMszMtzMvzMvzOwzPwzPwzRwzRwzSwvUwsUwpV\ wlVwiXweXwcYw`ZwXZwU`wR`wMawKawHXsASo4Mk0Ig0Ed0Fc0\ Hc0Ia0Ka4La7L`AM`FO0IPZLRZPRZSSYVUYZVXaXXdYXhYVkZV\ n`VraUtcUwcUzYVlSXZMYLIZ7KYALYCMYEOYHPYIRYKSYMUYOV\ YPXYRYYUZYV`YXaYZcY`dYaeYccZa```YaZVcYSiZRpZOw`Mz`\ KzaIzaKz`KzZKzYKzYKzXKzVKzVLxULvSLsSLrRLoPLnOLkOLh\ MMgLMdLMcKM`IMYIMXHgz`dz`cz`az``z`PvLFc4C`29Y15X04\ U01R00P00M00L05PIISaFXdEZgCahAdkFglKioPlpUosZstcvv\ cxxhzzhzzmzzizzrzzizzmzzezzZzzUzzezz9vxCswFptInsLk\ pOhoRdnUakXaicXgkUenRdmXh } 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=========================================