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Fractal of the Day
by Jim Muth
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Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: With today's fractal we move on to the 'manfn+exp' formula. This formula gave me a fight when, knowing next to nothing about how it works, I tried to make it do something interesting. I forget all the tricks I tried, but nothing much happened until I tried the 'abs' function. The fractal I found defies description. A good idea of its appearance can be gained however by viewing today's image. The image is not quite like anything I have done before. When I saw it, I found nothing in it that might inspire a name. After puzzling over the image for a few minutes, I noticed what looks like a small, triangular black flag waving in the upper right part of the frame. I named the image after this unimportant feature. When I saw an image so unlike my usual fractal fare, with no Mandelbrot midget at its center, I could rate today's FOTD no higher than a humble 4. But it is actually a rather active, jazzy image, well worth the 5 minutes required to run the included parameter file. When it is combined with the rating of 4, this 5-minute render time gives an overall worth of 76. As a side note, today's image is the last one I will create with the current version of Fractint. A slightly updated version has just been released, and I will use it for all future images. I am kind of curious about what kind of images the new passes=o option will draw. As always, the finished GIF image is or soon will be posted in all its glory on the FOTD web site at: There was lots of sun here at Fractal Central on Saturday, but the wind blew all day and the temperature never made it above 43F 6C, which was simply too cold for the delicate ears of the fractal cats, not to mention their whiskers and paws. They chose to venture no farther than their porch chairs. Today is starting about the same. Little change is expected. I am planning on another slow day. The work is caught up; the fractals are brewing on schedule; is that a burst of philosophy I feel coming on? Check back tomorrow, same place same time, to see what, if anything, comes of this. Until then, take care, and if every conscious entity were suddenly removed from the universe, would the material part of the universe still exist? Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com |
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