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Fractal of the Day
by Jim Muth
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Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: In a world where every detergent cleans cleaner than every other detergent, when was the last time you heard the makers of a new product claim that their product was below average when they put it on the market? Doing so is almost unimaginable. Why then do I claim that today's FOTD is below average? The reason is that I believe in honesty in advertising.  Seriously, I've been thinking about the value of rating the FOTD's, as apparently others have also. I had almost no time to find a fractal, I had bad luck searching, and when I finally found a fractal, it turned out to be almost impossible to color pleasingly. As a result, today's image rates only a lowly 3. But why advertise the image's failures? I am not a self-critic. Anyone who runs the parameter file will soon notice the muddy colors and the scattered, unorganized features surrounding the midget. Maybe I'll stop rating the FOTD and let the viewers themselves rate the images. I named the picture "Cosmic Lyres", though maybe "Herring-bones" would be more appropriate. The render time of 15 minutes can be avoided by downloading the completed image from: The fractal weather Monday was cloudy and cold, with a temperature of 44F 6.5C. The cats spent the day curled by their radiators, getting up occasionally to shout at me for food. I must now tend to the other work that needs to be done. But I'll return in 24 hours with another FOTD image. Hopefully, the next one will be a vast improvement. Until then, take care. 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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