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Fractal of the Day
by Jim Muth
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Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's FOTD rates a modest 4, which is a little below average. The rating is this low because the image has too much of everything. To begin, the parameter file takes over 3 hours to render, which is far too much time for an image of such questionable worth. I would strongly recommend letting Paul and Scott do the rendering. When they have done the work, the image will be available in a few hours on their FOTD web sites at: Why did I choose a mediocre 3-hour image to be today's FOTD? The answer is simple -- at first I thought it would be a prize-winner. The 1/10-size thumbnail, which took 18 minutes to render, looked spectacular with a different color palette. But when the full-size image was finished, it fell far short of its promise. The original palette, which looked so good on a small size image, didn't work at all with the full-sized version, and the image just wouldn't look right regardless of how much I tweaked the colors. Eventually, I discarded the original colors and substituted the present palette. The image is a difficult one to color because it has too much detail. The colors just don't blend pleasingly. And when the colors do blend, the detail vanishes. A great fractal may lie hidden in the image, waiting only for a clever color scheme to reveal it, but the image is simply too slow to try the various rendering options. I named the image "Too Much of It All", which is an honest description of my feelings about the image. I found the scene when I did a little extra exploring of the "Pooped-Out" fractal of 3 days ago -- a fractal filled with unusual places just waiting to be discovered. In addition to iterated numbers, the weather is fractal in nature. Today, it was cloudy and chilly, with a temperature of 63F (17C). The cats, who are also fractal, decided it was a bit too cold, and were outdoors only a few minutes. But they were in an unusually pleasant mood for an indoor day. I'm waxing philosophical, but the wall clock tells me that the day is young and there's a lot to be done. The time has come to post my FOTD and get busy. Until next time, take care, and with an infinity of midgets waiting to be discovered, the chance of any given midget being discovered is zero. Yet midgets are in fact discovered. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com |
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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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