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Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:
Today's
FOTD is a
bit late, mostly because of the hour or so it took me to read and try
to decipher a group of e-mails I received from Sebastien, who appears
to have interesting things to say but has so much trouble saying
them. When my deductive congestion became too severe, I
turned to
the world of fractals.
The exponent of Z in today's fractal is 1.189207115, which is the
square root of the square root of 2, or the 4th root of 2.
This
unlikely value was iterated 2 levels up the hyperladder with the
'recip' function applied. The resulting parent fractal
appears as
a large, almost budless, bay with the southwest side cut off and a
single period-3 bud on the northeast shore line. I can find
no
trace of the period-2 but that would be expected. A series of
chaotic stripes extends southwest from the bay, with today's image
located somewhere in this chaos.
The name "Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony" refers to the effect of curled satin
ribbons, which was achieved by rendering the scene with the outside set
to 'tdis'
The rating of a 7 indicates that I consider the image
average.
The calculation time of 35 seconds guarantees no thrill, but it does
guarantee that little time will be spent on the way to a possible
letdown.
Hazy sun, increased humidity and a temperature of 86F 30C made the day
a typical late August one here at Fractal Central. The
fractal
cats enjoyed the conditions from inside. They never worry
about
things like T.S. Isaac. The people of New Orleans will supply
all
the worry the storm demands.
The humans concerned themselves with more mundane things such as the
slow response our CrossScan puzzles are getting. My opinion
is
that we should mix in some number stuff, but FL doesn't like
numbers. The next FOTD *WILL* be posted. The exact
time
will be revealed when the image appears. Until whenever, take
care, and I see there has been another big-news shooting.
Maybe
we should pass another law. How about making it a hate crime
to
murder anyone with a firearm?
Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net
START PARAMETER FILE=======================================
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frm:MandelbrotBC3 { ; by several Fractint users
e=p1, a=imag(p2)+100
p=real(p2)+PI
q=2*PI*fn1(p/(2*PI))
r=real(p2)+PI-q
Z=C=Pixel:
Z=log(Z)
IF(imag(Z)>r)
Z=Z+flip(2*PI)
ENDIF
Z=exp(e*(Z+flip(q)))+C
|Z|<a }
END PARAMETER FILE=========================================