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fractint-digest       Thursday, February 3 2000       Volume 01 : Number 443




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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 23:53:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Muth <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) FOTD, 31-01-00 (Seven Down) (c)

FOTD -- January 31, 2000

Fractal enthusiasts and visionaries:

Today's midget lies hidden in the fractal that results when
Z^0.7 is subtracted from Z^0.6 and the difference multiplied by
11 before adding C.  It's a different little midget, with eight
long, narrow filigree arms radiating outward and finally
curling into vague numeral sevens before terminating.

Well, actually only half the arms terminate.  The other half
continue beyond the bounds of the picture into worlds unknown.
I named the little picture "Seven Down" when I heard the words
"third and two" coming from the TV set in the next room.  I'm
not actually watching the big stuporbowl game, but whenever I
hear a cheer go up, I check to see what happened.

The parameter file is a relatively quick 2-1/2 minute one.  The
download is even quicker.  The image may be found ready for
downloading at:

          <alt.binaries.pictures.fractals>

And also at:

          <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html>

The fractal weather suffered a setback today, as a combination
of snow, sleet and freezing rain left 4 more inches of various
forms of frozen water on top of the old ice.  The temperature of
25F (-4C) was far too cold for the sensitive fractal cats, who
spent the day moving from one radiator to another.

It was ideal for our four-dimensional friend Percy Smedley
however.  He has finally finished decorating the north wall of
his room.  On that wall he painted a picture of the simplest of
all four-dimensional regular solids, an object I'll call a
pentahedroid.  The pentahedroid is the analog of the triangle
and tetrahedron, consisting of 5 points, 10 edges, 10 faces, and
5 tetrahedron cells.

A tetrahedron is formed by attaching an extra triangle to the
three edges of an existing triangle and rotating the triangles
around those edges until they come together in the third
dimension.  A pentahedroid is formed by attaching an extra
tetrahedron to the four faces of an existing tetrahedron and
rotating the tetrahedrons around those faces until they come
together in the fourth dimension.  Just as is the case when
triangles are rotated until they form a tetrahedron, the
rotation of the tetrahedrons to form a pentahedroid is done with
no stretching, bending or distortion.

The boundary of the pentahedroid consists of the interiors of
its five tetrahedron cells.  But we must not think of the
interiors of the tetrahedrons as giving thickness to the walls
of the pentahedroid.  Every point within the interiors of the
tetrahedrons, no matter how deeply buried, is in contact with
both the inside and outside of the pentahedroid.

The simplest three-dimensional projection of the entire
pentahedroid resembles a tetrahedron with lines drawn inward
from the four corners until they meet in a point at the center.
The three-dimensional slices of the pentahedroid are either
tetrahedrons or triangular prisms, depending on whether the
slice splits the five points of the pentahedroid four-one or
three-two.

Tomorrow, our friend Percy will decorate the south wall of his
room with a picture of a four-dimensional cube, sometimes called
a tesseract.  I'll tell you then how he makes out.

For now, it's time to shut down the fractal shoppe and call it
an icy night.  Until next time, take care, and be ever aware.


Jim Muth
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START FORMULA==============================================

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 FORMULA================================================

START PARAMETER FILE=======================================

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  formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=ident
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  /8.23139e+009/1/102.5 params=-1/0.7/1/0.6/10/0
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  symmetry=none periodicity=10
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END PARAMETER FILE=========================================

START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================

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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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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 13:42:18 GMT
From: "Rupert Millard" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Colour Map Recognition, I've updated my program

Hello all,
          You can download my compressed duplicate colour map
program at:

http://www.geocities.com/kangarupert/multimap.html

This new version only displays duplicates if they genuinely are duplicates.
I hope it is useful to you all. If you have any problems, e-mail me either
through the group or to [e-mail]
I am planning to put in a later version an organisation feature, which will
put them in directories according to their 'bandyness' and 'stripeyness'

From,
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 22:56:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Muth <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) FOTD, 01-02-00 (Outlined Minibrot) (c)

FOTD -- February 01, 2000

Fractal enthusiasts and visionaries:

Today's fractal must be rendered at a resolution of at least
1024x768.  At anything less than that it falls apart.  This
should be no problem, as the parameter file runs in less than
2-1/2 minutes at 1024x768 even on a modest Pentium 200mhz.  The
draw time is calculated at the higher resolution.

Also, starting today I will discontinue attaching separate
formula and parameter files with the FOTD.  These items are
merely adding unnecessary length, and I doubt if anyone who
reads the FOTD is using a version of Fractint so old that it
cannot read the combined par-formula file.

Today's fractal is a nice, (what does that mean), attractive
one.  From a distance it rather resembles an opening lotus
blossom.  From close up the delicate tracery of spiderweb
filaments becomes visible.  The image was created with the
M-Mix4 formula calculating a critical point of the expression
100(Z^101)-0.5(1/Z)+C.  I named the picture "Outlined Minibrot"
because of the wavy outlines surrounding the central midget.  As
I mentioned earlier, the image must be rendered at a minimum
resolution of 1024x768, and as always, the JPEG version, which
has been reduced to a resolution of 640x480, has been posted to:

          <alt.binaries.pictures.fractals>

and to:

          <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html>

The fractal weather today was much improved, with warm sunshine
and a temperature of 35F (1.5C).  There is still about one meter
of snow on the ground and piles of snow 2 meters high lining
almost every street, however.  Thus the fractal cats didn't even
think of going outdoors.

Our hyperfriend Percy has now decorated the south wall of his
room with a picture of a hypercube, which is sometimes called a
tesseract.  (No, he did not render it in the cubist style,
though that style was invented in an effort to visualize the
fourth dimension, a hopeless task that was quite trendy in the
early 20th century.)

The hypercube is the analog of the cube, just as the
pentahedroid is the analog of the tetrahedron.  To construct a
hypercube an extra cube must be attached to all six faces of a
given cube, and an additional cube attached to the outward face
of one of the extra cubes, making eight cubes in all.  This
assemblage may then be folded in the fourth dimension until the
six extra cubes come together, forming a hyperbox with an open
lid.  Then the final cube can be dropped down to close the box
and complete the hypercube.

The simplest three-dimensional projection of a hypercube appears
as a cube with a smaller cube inside it, with the corresponding
vertices connected.  When this model is studied, it can be seen
that the hypercube consists of 16 vertex-points, 32 line-edges,
24 plane-faces, and 8 cubical-cells.  At every vertex 4 edges,
6 faces and 4 cubical cells meet.  At every edge 3 faces and
3 cells meet.  At every face 2 cells meet.

The many three-dimensional slices of the hypercube are beyond
complete description.  But briefly, if a hypercube were to
suddenly intersect our 3-space, it would most likely be
vertex-first.  In this case, we would see a point appear, which
would grow into a 4-sided pyramid, which would increase in size
until the next vertex passed through our space.  If the
hypercube cut our space edge-on, we would see a line appear,
which would spread into a thickening triangular prism.  If it
cut our space face-on, we would see a flat square appear, and if
it entered our space cell-on, we would see a perfect cube
suddenly appear from nowhere, persist for a few moments, then
vanish as suddenly as it appeared.

This technical description of course will never enable one to
mentally picture a hypercube, but the monstrous thing does exist
mathematically, and the various three-dimensional slices can be
materialized and comprehended with the normal senses.

And now I comprehend that it's time to shut down the fractal
shoppe for another evening and call it a night.  Until tomorrow,
when we'll see what Percy does with the east wall of his room,
take care, and if four-dimensional water has a specific gravity
of one, how much would a hypercubic centimeter weigh in our 3-D
space?


Jim Muth
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START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================

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  formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=ident passes=1
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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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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 12:13:03 GET
From: "Tony \(Anthony\) Hanmer" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Colour Map Recognition, I've updated my program

Again, Rupert, many thanks for this!  I could only dream about what would be
useful - you made it work.  Congratulations.

Tony Hanmer
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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 11:20:43 GMT
From: "Rupert Millard" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Colour Map Recognition, How many duplicates have you got?

>From: "Tony \(Anthony\) Hanmer" <[e-mail]>
>Reply-To: [e-mail]
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: Re: (fractint) Colour Map Recognition, I've updated my program
>Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 12:13:03 GET
>
>Again, Rupert, many thanks for this!  I could only dream about what would
>be
>useful - you made it work.  Congratulations.
>
>Tony Hanmer
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Hi Tony,
I enjoyed making the program because I like a challenge, if you (or any-one
else) have an idea I 'd be happy to hear it.

I was also wondering how many duplicates you found, I only found jewels2.map
and wizzle18.map, these are both in fracxtr6.zip (I don't make my own colour
maps because I am no good at it at all)

From,
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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 11:59:00 -0500
From: Sylvie Gallet <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) New galleries

Hi All,

  I just added three galleries to my site (#19, 20, and 21) for a total o=
f
30 new images.  I've also updated my UF formulas and parameters files.

  The URL for the English version is:
    <http://www.fractalus.com/sylvie/homepage.htm>
  Et pour la version fran=E7aise:
    <http://www.fractalus.com/sylvie/homepagf.htm>

  Enjoy!

        - Sylvie

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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 23:20:15 -0600
From: Tim Wegner <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Fractint 20.0.6 now public

Fractint 20.0.6, the developer version 20.0 patch 6, is now available
via anonymous ftp at ftp.fractint.org/fradev.zip. We intend to release
most, if not all, of the developer versions from now on.

This file has only the executable, a PAR/FRM file by Sylvie Gallet,
and a read.me. It's not a complete distribution - you still need the
version 20.0 files.

Please don't upload this anywhere unless you are willing to keep it
current. These developer versions can change very fast! Also, this
is not an official release, but a bleeding edge version, so be careful.
On the other hand, it has bug fixes, so maybe it is more stable
than a release version :-) Our official position is that there is some
risk in using a developer version for serious art, because we may
make changes that are not forward compatible. Of course we try to
avoid this.

The fractint.org ftp site also has the developer diff files and the
version 20.0 release package and source. This web site is not
intended to replace Noel Giffin's wonderful spanky.triumf.ca; I
expect Noel will have the developer's executable up there soon also.

This version is mostly bug fixes (see the what's new). However
Sylvie Gallet asked us to add the center/mag parameters as
formula parser constants. We accomodated her without exactly
understanding why she wanted this. An example file is included in
fradev.zip. It looks for all the world like a fractal reflected in a lake.
Ms. Gallet never ceases to amaze me :-)

As we get more organized we'll get Xfractint and an integer-free
version posted also.

Enjoy!

Tim Wegner
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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 01:35:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Muth <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) FOTD, 02-02-00 (Mathematical Gills) (c)

FOTD -- February 02, 2000

Fractal enthusiasts and visionaries:

I've seen no signs of life from the philofractal list in over 24
hours.  My own test messages are bouncing back.  Since this is
the start of a new month, I suspect that the list went extinct
as January ended -- and just when I was ready to reveal the
secrets of the universe.  If so, may philofractal rest in peace.
Hopefully the fractal-art and Fractint lists won't go the same
route.

Today's fractal takes the whimsical formula 100(Z^100)-(1/Z)+C
and does something interesting with it -- interesting and fishy.
The pattern around the central midget reminds me of a shark's
gills, so I named the picture "Mathematical Gills".  To achieve
the effect of gills, I set the outside to summ and made a slight
adjustment to the color palette.

The image is another one that should be rendered at a resolution
of at least 1024x768.  This should be no problem, since the
parameter file runs in 2-1/2 minutes on a p200 Pentium.  But if
this is still too slow, the image has been posted to:

          <alt.binaries.pictures.fractals>

and to:

          <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html>

from where it may be downloaded in a minute or so.

The fractal weather today was partly cloudy and breezy, with a
temperature of 34F (1C) which kept the fractal cats safely
indoors.

Our friend Percy is still in his strange room, decorating the
walls with pictures of hypersolid geometric figures.  On the
east wall he has painted a 3-dimensional picture of the next in
the series of the six regular four-dimensional polytopes.

I call this one the hexadecahedroid.  (Perhaps hexadecatope
would be more accurate.)  It is the reciprocal of the hypercube
and consists of 16 tetrahedral cells, 32 triangular faces, 24
edges and 8 vertices.  Its analog in three-dimensional space is
the octahedron.

To form the hexadecahedroid a given distance is laid off in both
directions on each of four mutually perpendicular lines
intersecting at a single point.  The eight points so obtained
mark the vertices of the figure.

The three-dimensional projection of the hexadecahedroid is a
tetrahedron with a smaller tetrahedron within it.  The smaller
tetrahedron is rotated so that its four faces face the vertices
of the outer tetrahedron, and three lines are drawn from each
vertex of the outer tetrahedron, connecting to the three corners
of the facing face of the inner tetrahedron.  A set of
tinkertoys is a great help in actually constructing and thereby
visualizing these projections.

Tomorrow, Percy will decorate the west wall of his hyper-room.
He will do it with a 4-D figure that has no analogous figure in
3-space.  Lots of luck to our Percy in his abstract endeavor.

I see it's time to shut down.  Until then, take care, and rest
easy.


Jim Muth
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START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================

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  formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=ident passes=1
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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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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 13:10:35 GMT
From: "Andrew Coppin" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Fractal Fracture

If you draw the fractal resulting from Z^2 + C, you get the standard
Mandelbrot image. If you draw Z^3 + C, you get the cubic Mandelbrot. But if
you draw Z^2.5 + C, you get an image with a multitude of fractures in it.

The reason is fairly straight forward. The function Z^2.5 has multiple
solutions, so FractInt must arbitarily pick just one answer. It is not
possible to do this so that the resulting "function" is continus; there are
so-called "branch cuts", and these create the fractures in the image (which,
being a factal, propogates them everywhere!).

What I would like to do it change the way FractInt selects the solutions,
i.e. move the branch cuts around. Of course, to do this requires fiddling
with the source code... or fancy formula work. And that's why I'm typing
this: I was wondering wether anyone can show me a formula with a parameter
to move the branch cuts.

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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 10:05:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Muth <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Re: Fractal Fracture

At 01:10 PM 2/2/00 GMT, Andrew Coppin wrote:

>If you draw the fractal resulting from Z^2 + C, you get the standard
>Mandelbrot image. If you draw Z^3 + C, you get the cubic Mandelbrot. But if
>you draw Z^2.5 + C, you get an image with a multitude of fractures in it.
      <snip>
>I was wondering wether anyone can show me a formula with a parameter
>to move the branch cuts.


I'm not sure if you can call it the same formula, but the expression
(-Z)^2.5+C draws an entirely different figure.  With exponents between
1 and 2 this formula creates an entirely new type of Mandeloids.  Try
the attached formula.

Jim M.


=========================================================

MandelbrotMiN {; p1 sets exponent
b=p1, z=p2, c=p3+pixel:
z=(-z)^(b)+c,
|z| <= 16
}

=========================================================

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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 12:41:00 -0300
From: "Fliguer, Miguel" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (fractint) New galleries

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>>>  I just added three galleries to my site (#19, 20, and 21) for a total
of
>>>30 new images.  I've also updated my UF formulas and parameters files.
>>> <snip snip snip>
>>>    <http://www.fractalus.com/sylvie/homepage.htm>
>>>        - Sylvie

As always, your images are simply incredible !!!
Gnarl01 and mship10 are some of the best spirals I ever
seen in my life.

I'm glad of reading (on the recent mail from Tim) that you
requested some specific features to be included in patch 6
for Fractint v20. I'm hoping to see the resultant marvels
on a future Fractint gallery on your site.

Regards,
Miguel Fliguer - Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 15:02:07 -0500
From: Sylvie Gallet <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (fractint) New galleries

Hi Miguel,

>> As always, your images are simply incredible !!!
>> Gnarl01 and mship10 are some of the best spirals I ever =

>> seen in my life.

  Thank you!

>> I'm glad of reading (on the recent mail from Tim) that you =

>> requested some specific features to be included in patch 6
>> for Fractint v20. I'm hoping to see the resultant marvels
>> on a future Fractint gallery on your site.

  Check out the examples included in fradev.zip.

  Cheers,

        - Sylvie

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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 15:26:41 -0500
From: "Damien M. Jones" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Philofractal list

Jim,

The philofractal list isn't dead, yet. My previous employer asked me to
remove the list from his server, so Monday I did that. Since then I've
managed to spend more than twelve hours in the hospital over two days, so
my ability to test the functioning of the new list (at
[e-mail]) has been limited.

Damien M. Jones   \\
[e-mail]  \\  Fractalus Galleries & Info:
                    \\  http://www.fractalus.com/

Please do not post my e-mail address on a web site or
in a newsgroup.  Thank you.


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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 17:46:45 -0600
From: Tim Wegner <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) fradev distribution at spanky

The ftp.fractint.org site seems to be down at the moment - at least
I can't access it. Fortunately Noel has already posted the
developer's executable at spanky. It is at:

   http://spanky.triumf.ca/pub/fractals/fracdev/fradev.zip

At the moment this contains the DOS developer's executable
version for Fractint 20.0.6

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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 19:50:24 -0800
From: Larry Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) FRACTINT animators

  Hello folks..

  I used to have a quirkly little program that produced
batch files to render animated sequences using fractint-produced
gif files as input.  Theoretically, anyway..  In practice, you
usually have to manually tweak the .PAR file produced in order to
get satisfactory results.

  It's idiosyncrasies aside, I have a keen desire to find this
little utility again, and I'm embarrassed to admit that I can't
find it anywhere.  Can anybody offer me some assistance in this
regard?  Or point me in the direction of a similar utility?
(Barring the loathsome "FILMER", of course-- a pox on it's
microencephalic author!)


                                   Thanks,
                                     LT

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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 01:29:25 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Muth <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) FOTD, 03-02-00 (A Dazzling Midget) (c)

FOTD -- February 03, 2000

Fractal enthusiasts and visionaries:

Every now and then a fractal comes along that is simply
dazzling.  Since today's fractal is one of those dazzlers, I
named the picture "Dazzling Midget".

The picture gives the impression of multiple layers.  This
impression is a total illusion.  The fractal is a purist one,
with the outside colored by the flat equal-iteration-band method.

The formula behind the picture is the M-Mix4 calculating
2*(Z+Z^(-100))+C.  The parameter file is relatively slow, taking
15 minutes on a Pentium 200mhz.  A far more efficient way of
viewing the dazzling image is to download it from:

          <alt.binaries.pictures.fractals>

or from:

          <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html>

The fractal weather was sunny today, but breezy and quite cold.
The fractal cats didn't even think of going outside into the
temperature of 27F (-3C).

Our friend Percy Smedley is still busy painting a picture of the
next regular four-dimensional figure into the volume of the west
wall of his hyper-room.  Unfortunately, after a hectic day I'm a
bit too mentally congested to think in four dimensions.  But I
will say that the name of the next figure is the
icosatetrahedroid, or the icosatetratope, and it consists of 24
vertices with 6 octahedra and 8 edges at each vertex, 96 edges
with 3 octahedra at each edge, 96 triangular faces with 2
octahedra at each face, and 24 octahedral cells.  It corresponds
to nothing in 3-D space.

If I regain my mental prowess, I'll further describe this figure
in tomorrow's FOTD.  If I don't regain my prowess, no one will
notice the difference.  Until then, take care, and be faithful
to your fractals.


Jim Muth
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START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================

A_Dazzling_Midget  { ; time=0:15:26.26 SF5 on a p200
  reset=2000 type=formula formulafile=critical.frm
  formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=ident passes=1
  center-mag=-1.06414478965519/-0.00008689749207896/9.\
  693146e+010/1/-117.5 params=1/1/1/-100/1/0 float=y
  maxiter=3600 bailout=25 inside=0 logmap=278
  symmetry=xaxis periodicity=10
  colors=000AQCAQAAS8AU6<3>_hTelZlodrsjxvo<14>tRatP`sN\
  _<3>sFX<3>X9VR7VM6UG4UB3U<4>SHOVJMYML<3>jWH<9>ofdpgf\
  phh<3>rlq<7>trRtrNtsK<3>tu7<6>QiCLgDHeE<3>0_G6ZHAYH<\
  3>QaHUbHYcJadL<2>kgQ<2>rjItkPrjW<3>npQmqOlsN<3>hyH<5\
  >_l`ZjdXhgWfjVdn<2>R`wUasXbo<3>gc_gc_hbZ<3>kUYkRYlPX\
  mNXmLX<3>MKdFKf8Kg<7>aSTeTRiUQ<3>wYJ<2>qOWpL_oJV<2>l\
  DHkBDlDF<7>nNSnPTnQV<3>oV`cc_Fm_DuAFvC<3>KwGLwINwJ<2\
  >QwM<9>hwAjw9lw8<3>sw4Szj<8>hzbjzblza<3>szZ<3>cza_zb\
  Xzc<3>Hzf8zO<3>9zF
  }

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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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 19:58:02 +1300
From: "Morgan L. Owens" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) FRACTINT animators

At 19:50 02/02/2000 -0800, Larry Taylor wrote:
>  Hello folks..
>
>  I used to have a quirkly little program that produced
>batch files to render animated sequences using fractint-produced
>gif files as input.  Theoretically, anyway..  In practice, you
>usually have to manually tweak the .PAR file produced in order to
>get satisfactory results.
>
>  It's idiosyncrasies aside, I have a keen desire to find this
>little utility again, and I'm embarrassed to admit that I can't
>find it anywhere.  Can anybody offer me some assistance in this
>regard?  Or point me in the direction of a similar utility?
>
Would this be Par2bat? The FracXtra distribution contains 3.1 - maybe
there's a later version (if there is: <luser>ME TOO!</luser>.

Morgan L. Owens
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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 01:22:21 -0800
From: Larry Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) whoops..

The name of the program that I'm scrambling after is FA.EXE,
although ANIFRA would rate a close second.
Everything thing after this sentence is redundant and repetitative...

  Hello folks..

  I used to have a quirkly little program that produced
batch files to render animated sequences using fractint-produced
gif files as input.  Theoretically, anyway..  In practice, you
usually have to manually tweak the .PAR file produced in order to
get satisfactory results.

  It's idiosyncrasies aside, I have a keen desire to find this
little utility again, and I'm embarrassed to admit that I can't
find it anywhere.  Can anybody offer me some assistance in this
regard?  Or point me in the direction of a similar utility?
(Barring the loathsome "FILMER", of course-- a pox on it's
microencephalic author!)


                                   Thanks,
                                     LT

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           Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin St.
             A gentle Irishman, mighty odd
           He had a brogue both rich & sweet
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                      *************
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