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Fractal of the Day
by Jim Muth
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Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: The discussion will be a short one tonight because due to a lightning storm and the resulting intermittent power outages, I haven't been able to keep the computers plugged in. But having suspected that something like this would happen, I found the day's fractal before the excitement began. To produce today's image, I further reduced the imag(p2) parameter of the 'parent' fractal to an absolute value of -1.051. This change caused the parent fractal to balloon out to immense size. Checking the outskirts of the elephantine fractal, I found an area that looked interesting. Today's scene with its unusually well defined midget lay buried in that interesting area. The name I gave the picture, "Every Which Way", has little relation to what appears on the screen. Being unable to think of a proper name, I came up with this name at random. Actually, I would rather not name the FOTD images at all, but I feel it helps organize the ever-growing collection of fractals. The rating of 6 is well-earned. The draw time of over 8 minutes makes the parameter file a bit slow, making a download of the finished image the marginally better choice. The download may be found by going to Usenet at: The fractal weather today was mostly cloudy and very unsettled, with a parade of small thunder-showers all afternoon building to a monster storm at 7pm, which flooded (really) the fractal basement and sent the cats scurrying for cover in the access hole to the bathroom plumbing, where they cowered for over an hour. The temperature of 80F (26.5C) was fair enough, though the wetness kept the cats confined to the indoors. Since I'm in a state of philosophical exhaustion after yesterday's outburst, there is no philosophy today. But more wisdom, (or foolishness if you will), will eventually appear, and it could appear as soon as tomorrow. Until then, take care, and keep your basement dry. (Which is more than I can do.) Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com |
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; Version 2000 Patchlevel 14
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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 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE==================================
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