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fractint-digest        Tuesday, August 29 2000        Volume 01 : Number 493




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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 07:36:24 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (fractint) FOTD 25-08-00  (The Lead Egg [6?])

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:19:42 -0400 (EDT), Jim Muth
<[e-mail]> wrote:

>
>FOTD -- August 25, 2000 (Rating 6?)
>
>Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:
>
>I goofed on today's fractal.  Today's fractal lays an egg.  It=20
>goes over like a lead balloon.  It even has a leaden color=20
>around the midget.=20

I liked this fractal. More than you did the first time it was put on
the web page. Somebody needs to check and find how this got to be the
3rd time this fractal was picked as FOTD. Fruedian slip perhaps? The
spirit of this fractal was offended by your first rating? :)

juice --have fun --harm none
INTP  web2.airmail.net/ebt
fractal eye candy http://www.contest2k.com
contest coming soon.

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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 16:39:12 -0500
From: "Jonathan Osuch" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Evolver restoration problem

I've found another problem with restoring evolver images.  If you save an
evolver image with a zoom box displayed (except for the center image), the
parameters that get restored are for the zoomed subimage.  This makes
regenerating any but that one subimage impossible.

I'll try to fix it this weekend.

Jonathan



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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:18:09 -0600
From: Tim Wegner <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Fractint down - see the mirrot

The spanky.triumf.ca web site is down, but it is mirrored at

spanky.fractint.org

 if anyone needs it. Thanks to Damien Jones!

Tim

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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 22:37:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jim Muth <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) FOTD 26-08-00  (Gnats Around a Midget [8])

FOTD -- August 26, 2000 (Rating 8)

Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

I've heard it said that midgets draw gnats like garbage draws
flies, but I didn't believe it until today, when I stumbled upon
this gorgeous little midget, with its spiralling arms and its
swirling clouds of gnats.

Well, actually, the midget is too small to fully resolve, so
you'll have to take my word that it's really down at the center
of the image.  But the inability to resolve the midget is no
loss, because I've been close enough to the midget to realize
that its pattern deteriorates beyond the magnitude of today's
picture.  I named the scene "Gnats Around A Midget", which
accurately describes the clouds of gnats I see swirling through
the scene.  Since I like the image, I rated it an 8.

To create today's fractal, I made a slight adjustment to the
'parent' fractal, reducing the absolute value of imag(p2) from
- -1.1 to -1.08.  The effect of the slight change on the overall
shape of the parent is pronounced, though the inner details
remain pretty much the same.

At just under 13 minutes, the parameter file tries one's
patience.  Relief for the patient and impatient alike may be
found on Usenet, in the form of the GIF image file, which has
been posted to the binary group:

          alt.binaries.pictures.fractals

Relief is also on the Web at the URL:

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

The fractal weather today was near perfect, with bright sun,
blue skies, puffy clouds, and a temperature of 85F (29.5C),
which lured the fractal cats onto the porch, then down into the
yard, where they chased butterflies.

Well, the butterflies have now gone, the cats are back indoors,
and it's time to call it a fractal night.  Until next time, take
care, and if it's all in the mind, it doesn't matter.  If it's
all matter, I don't mind.


Jim Muth
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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 16:17:39 GMT
From: "Andrew Coppin" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) FOTDs

The FOTD for the 26th fully desirved it's rating of 8. In fact, the last few
images have all been very different, rich, and wonderfull to behold.
Thankyou Jim! Keep it up!

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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 11:29:36 -0500
From: "Paul N. Lee" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) FOTD 10-08-00  (A Pleasant Fractal [3])

Fernando Bresslau wrote:
>
> Hi, Jim, but now you got me curious!
> compare today┤s FOTD and the one in
> 09 July, 2000, Nothing Much.  The image
> is the same one!
>

The problem is not with Jim's images, but with my creation of the web
pages.  A different routine used to create the pages had caused a four
days to have the same image as "Nothing Much".  They have all been
corrected:

    FOTD 15-07-00  This is a Minibrot
    FOTD 28-07-00  Carousel
    FOTD 10-08-00  A Pleasant Fractal
    FOTD 25-08-00  The Lead Egg


Sincerely,
P.N.L.
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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 11:33:12 -0500
From: "Paul N. Lee" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) FOTD 25-08-00  (The Lead Egg [6?])

Elaina "Juice" B. T. wrote:
>
> Somebody needs to check and find how this
> got to be the 3rd time this fractal was
> picked as FOTD.  Fruedian slip perhaps?
>

The problem is not with Jim's images, but with my creation of the web
pages.  A different routine used to create the pages had caused four
days to have the same image as "Nothing Much".  They have all been
corrected:

    FOTD 15-07-00  This is a Minibrot
    FOTD 28-07-00  Carousel
    FOTD 10-08-00  A Pleasant Fractal
    FOTD 25-08-00  The Lead Egg


Sincerely,
P.N.L.
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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:10:57 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (fractint) OT : Gamma correction help?

Hi all, I hope everyone's having a great time preparing entries!
I wonder if anyone can point me to information to help with the following....

Recently, the display unit failed and was repaired.  As a result of this,
images look way too bright and washed out when opened by my all-purpose
"wrench", Paint shop pro.  If I set the monitor gamma back to the old setting
they appear correct.  However, I have to set it to the new gamma to  make the
images still appear correctly hued when opened on an html page in netscape or
opened for viewing in Irfan view.  If I correct the  picture gamma on my
contest entry possibles in paint shop pro I can make them look as they were
created again BUT they then are way too dark in the other two programs.
 I've adjusted the display as much as i can with the controls (including the
blue and red guns' gain) available (the brightness has to be turned almost
all the way down to even approach a black background...no true black at all
at any setting)  and have narrowed the discrepancy between old and new but
not enough.  I don't understand how they can be displayed correctly in two of
three programs.
Help?
Thank you for any assistance!

~ren

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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 20:10:05 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (fractint) OT : gamma question correction

In a message dated 00-08-26 18:12:19 EDT, you write:
Correction!   I stated the problem incorrectly, sorry!
<<
 Recently, the display unit failed and was repaired.  As a result of this,
 images look way too bright and washed out when opened by my all-purpose
 "wrench", Paint shop pro but the same as they originally did if viewed in
netscape or irfanview. If i set the monitor gamma back to it's pre-repair
setting  netscape and irfanview and psp look identically correct.   If I set
the monitor gamma for the new repaired output and  then correct the  picture
gamma on my
 contest entry "possibles" in paint shop pro I can make them look as they
were
 created again BUT they then are way too dark in the other two programs.
  I've adjusted the display as much as i can with the controls (including the
 blue and red guns' gain) available (the brightness has to be turned almost
 all the way down to even approach a black background...no true black at all
 at any setting)  and have narrowed the discrepancy between old and new but
 not enough.  I don't understand how they can be displayed correctly in two
of
 three programs.
 Help?
 Thank you for any assistance!

 ~ren
  >>

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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 22:26:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jim Muth <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) FOTD 27-08-00  (The Fractal Pods [7])

FOTD -- August 27, 2000 (Rating 7)

Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Yes, I realize that it's Saturday evening as I write this, and
Saturday evening is the time for the junky old sci-fi movies to
appear on the TV.  Of all the good oldies, "Invasion of the Body
Snatchers", from the 1950's, is one of the best.  In that movie,
vegetable pods from outer space land in a small California town
and begin taking over the personalities of the inhabitants.

The enclosed shapes surrounding the tiny midget in today's
picture remind me of those pods from space.  The name "The
Fractal Pods" seemed perfectly appropriate, so that's the name I
gave the picture.  When it came time to decide on a rating, I
found myself undecided between a 6 or a 7.  I decided on a
rating of 7, as I feel I have been a bit too conservative in my
ratings.  After all, what good is having a rating of 9 or 10 if
nothing ever rates that high?

I colored the image so as to emphasize the outlines of the
pod-like shapes surrounding the little lost midget at the
center.  When today's image was complete, I zoomed into it, to
the point where eight pods surround a much larger midget.  But
even though I applied the same color palette to this deeper
zoom, the image was not as striking as the one with four pods,
which made the lofty status of FOTD.

The scene of today's image is another one buried deep in the
second version of the 'parent' fractal.  Instead of being
located in the 'fan', today's scene is located off-center of a
ring to the lower-left of the fan.  The four pod-like structures
are not quite like anything I have seen in fractal-land.  The
MandelbrotMix4 formula certainly is surprising.

The parameter file renders in a slow 10 minutes, which makes the
couple minutes it will take to pick up the GIF file from:

          alt.binaries.pictures.fractals

or from:

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

seem fast by comparison.

Before getting on to the all-unimportant weather, I must
announce that one more wasp has hatched from the mud-nest
sitting high under the roof of the fractal porch.  Now as for
that weather . . .

The fractal weather today was once again near perfect, with lots
of sunshine and a temperature of 85F (29.5C) to keep the cats
contented.

And that abrupt conclusion will have to end the day's FOTD.
It's getting late and the fractal cats want to eat.

Until next time, which will arrive in 24 hours, take care, and
be at peace with your fractals and yourself.


Jim Muth
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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 22:02:52 -1000
From: "David Jones" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) FOTD 27-08-00  (The Fractal Pods [7])

On 26 Aug 00 at 22:26, Jim Muth wrote:

> In that movie, vegetable pods from outer space land in
> a small California town and begin taking over the
> personalities of the inhabitants.

Well, I understand that really happened, but only at the
Democratic and Republican national conventions! ;-)

Another blast of bits from David
http://home.hawaii.rr.com/aliasjj/   http://www.hawastsoc.org/
For the best Hawaii & Pacific Basin surf forecast:
    http://www.surfreporthawaii.com

Random Thought for this Nanosecond
Hi. You've reached 123-4567. Everyone here was just offered as a blood sacrifice, but if you leave a message, one of their ghos
ts might call you back. (D.Jones)



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Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 10:29:02 -0700
From: Marty Krikorian <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Video Disk modes

I have been trying to try out very large images with the newly expanded
video disk capabilities of version 20.  I have found, though, that while I
can create images that are larger than 2048x2048, I can't get very large.
9999x9999 simply doesn't work - the image renders smaller than the size
specified. The documentation implies that anything I set up in the file of
driver modes should work, (anything up to the new maximum pixel count, that
is).

I would like to hope that I am not being clueless, here!  Any suggestions?

Marty K.



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Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:50:07 -0500
From: "Jonathan Osuch" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Video Disk modes

Marty wrote,

> I have been trying to try out very large images with the newly expanded
> video disk capabilities of version 20.  I have found, though, that while I
> can create images that are larger than 2048x2048, I can't get very large.
> 9999x9999 simply doesn't work - the image renders smaller than the size
> specified. The documentation implies that anything I set up in the file of
> driver modes should work, (anything up to the new maximum pixel count,
that
> is).

I just made a 9999x9999 image of the default mandelbrot set.  Although I am
using the developer's version (20.0.15, not released yet) I don't see any
changes from version 20.0.0 which would have affected this.

I pulled the 3,343,708 Byte image into Paint Shop Pro and it read it as
9999x9999.

How are you determining that the image size isn't 9999x9999?

Jonathan



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Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 19:25:18 -0700
From: Mark Christenson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Video Disk modes

At 02:50 PM 8/27/00 -0500, Jonathan wrote:
>...
>I just made a 9999x9999 image of the default mandelbrot set.  Although I am
>using the developer's version (20.0.15, not released yet) I don't see any
>changes from version 20.0.0 which would have affected this.

How do you specify arbitrary image sizes?  I tried to specify
1028x1028 using viewwindows, but kept getting 2048x2048.


TIA,
        Bud


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Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:08:54 -0700
From: Mark Christenson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) simplgif problem

I am doing last-minute work for the contest, and have
encountered trouble with simplgif.  This is something
I have never seen before.

Load error: no DPMI

This happens whether or not I specify in/out files. I should
note that I have installed FReego (possible connection?).
I have looked in the Fractint documentation and found nothing.


TIA,
        Bud


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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 01:38:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jim Muth <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) FOTD 28-08-00  (Every Which Way [6])

FOTD -- August 28, 2000 (Rating 6)

Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

The discussion will be a short one tonight because due to a
lightning storm and the resulting intermittent power outages, I
haven't been able to keep the computers plugged in.  But having
suspected that something like this would happen, I found the
day's fractal before the excitement began.

To produce today's image, I further reduced the imag(p2)
parameter of the 'parent' fractal to an absolute value of
- -1.051.  This change caused the parent fractal to balloon out
to immense size.  Checking the outskirts of the elephantine
fractal, I found an area that looked interesting.  Today's
scene with its unusually well defined midget lay buried in
that interesting area.

The name I gave the picture, "Every Which Way", has little
relation to what appears on the screen.  Being unable to think
of a proper name, I came up with this name at random.  Actually,
I would rather not name the FOTD images at all, but I feel it
helps organize the ever-growing collection of fractals.  The
rating of 6 is well-earned.

The draw time of over 8 minutes makes the parameter file a bit
slow, making a download of the finished image the marginally
better choice.  The download may be found by going to Usenet at:

          <alt.binaries.pictures.fractals>

or to the Web at:

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

The fractal weather today was mostly cloudy and very unsettled,
with a parade of small thunder-showers all afternoon building to
a monster storm at 7pm, which flooded (really) the fractal
basement and sent the cats scurrying for cover in the access
hole to the bathroom plumbing, where they cowered for over an
hour.  The temperature of 80F (26.5C) was fair enough, though
the wetness kept the cats confined to the indoors.

Since I'm in a state of philosophical exhaustion after
yesterday's outburst, there is no philosophy today.  But more
wisdom, (or foolishness if you will), will eventually appear,
and it could appear as soon as tomorrow.  Until then, take care,
and keep your basement dry.  (Which is more than I can do.)


Jim Muth
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 06:40:14 -0500
From: "Jonathan Osuch" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Video Disk modes

Mark wrote,

> How do you specify arbitrary image sizes?  I tried to specify
> 1028x1028 using viewwindows, but kept getting 2048x2048.

It hadn't occurred to me to use viewwindows.  I always edit a disk video
entry in fractint.cfg.

> I am doing last-minute work for the contest, and have
> encountered trouble with simplgif.  This is something
> I have never seen before.

Don't use simplgif.  Fractint will sew the images together itself.  Leave
the simplgif line remarked out in the batch file.

Judging from the error message, it sounds like you aren't working in a DOS
box under Windows.  You would need to install a memory manager that can
provide DPMI.  It's easier to just use Fractint to make the complete sewn
together image.

Jonathan



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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:11:03 -0700
From: Noel Giffin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (fractint) Fractint down - see the mirrot

Tim Wegner wrote:
>
> The spanky.triumf.ca web site is down, but it is mirrored at
>
> spanky.fractint.org
>
>  if anyone needs it. Thanks to Damien Jones!

Spanky was down all weekend due to a power outage, and I was unavailable.
The site is back up now.

    Cheers,
    Noel

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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 21:16:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jim Muth <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) FOTD 29-08-00  (Indescribable Minibrot [6])

FOTD -- August 29, 2000 (Rating 6)

Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's grade-6 fractal is simply beyond description.  So what
better name could I have given it than "Indescribable Minibrot".

It's a slow-to-render picture of a midget that exists in the
original 'parent' fractal, in a valley of a roughly Mandel-
shaped hole near the top of the fan.  The midget itself is
shaped exactly like all the other quadratic Minibrots, but the
pattern around the midget has gone totally bonkers.

The first name that came to mind when I saw the finished image
was "Fractal Lima beans".  The green loops in the corners
certainly do look like lima beans lined up in their pods.  But
such a name has no class, and the FOTD at least tries to be a
classy project.  After 1/2 hour passed and I thought of nothing
more appropriate, I decided that the picture was indescribable,
and named it accordingly.

The scene of today's picture is deep in a valley of its parent
fractal, making the iteration count rather high and the
parameter file quite slow.  Unless you enjoy waiting the better
part of an hour to see your fractals, run do not walk to:

          alt.binaries.pictures.fractals

or to:

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

and download the pre-rendered GIF file from there.  I know that
Paul's FOTD web site has had a few bugs lately, but it should be
working correctly by now.

The fractal weather today was partly cloudy with a temperature
of 82F (28C), and a deep blue sky with puffy white clouds such
as one would see from a beach deep in the tropics.  It would
have been a perfect day for the fractal cats had a light shower
not fallen in the afternoon and wet the grass.  Fractal cats
don't like to get their paws wet when they go outdoors.

While waiting for a particularly large graphic image to print
this afternoon, I somehow got into a discussion with an
impatient customer about some of my more outlandish metaphysical
ideas.  As we conversed, it became apparent that the more I
tried to explain my ideas the more confused he became.  After a
few minutes, he asked me whether or not I believe in science.  I
replied that I not only believe in it, I am absolutely certain
that it exists.  At this point the printer started printing,
saving one of us further embarrassment.

The deep philosophy is still smouldering.  Keep checking -- you
wouldn't want to miss the excitement when it bursts into flames.
And there is a 10 percent chance that the blaze will come
tomorrow, so until then, take special care, and some ideas are
best kept to one's self.


Jim Muth
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 21:14:42 -0500
From: "Jonathan Osuch" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Patch 15

I've uploaded the patch 15 executable.  http://www.fractint.org/ftp/

This patch fixes a couple of bugs and adds two new features.  There is now a
prompt for periodicity on the <y> screen and when using a disk video mode
the <v> screen can now be used to set the resolution.

Jonathan



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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 23:01:44 -0400
From: Bill Jemison <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) Video Disk modes

 <I have been trying to try out very large images with the
 <newly expanded video disk capabilities of version 20. I have
 <found, though, that while I can create images that are larger
 <than 2048x2048, I can't get very large. 9999x9999 simply
 <doesn't work - the image renders smaller than the size
 <specified. The documentation implies that anything I set up in
 <the file of driver modes should work, (anything up to the new
 <maximum pixel count, that is).

 <I would like to hope that I am not being clueless, here!  Any
 <suggestions?

 <Marty K.

I put entries in my fractint.cfg file for large diskvideo modes. I have
made files 16,000 x 12,000 without problem.

Bill

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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 23:01:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jim Muth <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fractint) FOTD 30-08-00  (Giant Flying Boobs [X])

FOTD -- August 30, 2000 (Rating X)

Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

If you're a sensitive, easily offended fractal fan, stop here.
Avert your gaze.  Do not run the parameter file; do not view the
image.  If you do, you could be outraged.  Today's image has
virtually no class at all.  It's filled with boobs.  No, I don't
mean a group of stupid people, I mean exactly the objects that
come in pairs that you're thinking of.

And the boobs are not just lying around, they're flying -- in
pairs of two naturally.  The picture could almost be named
"Attack of the Killer Boobs", but I named it "Giant Flying
Boobs", since that name has just the slightest bit more than
zero class.  The near total lack of class brought the rating
down to an unrated X, but it's really a fun picture, so who
cares about the no-class rating?

The image is a scene in the second version of the 'parent'
fractal.  The location is at the edge of the fan.  The actual
edge is the broken line near the bottom of the frame, where the
ground appears to merge with the sky.  The flying boo . . . er
. . . objects are actually holes in the fan, and they are filled
with interesting midgets, which I have not yet even attempted to
investigate.

The parameter file is a reasonably fast 5 minutes, much better
than we've been doing lately, but still slow enough to make the
download the better choice.  The download may be found at:

          alt.binaries.pictures.fractals

on Usenet, and at:

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

on the Web.

The fractal weather today was mostly cloudy with on-and-off
showers.  The temperature of 76F (24.5C) was near perfect,
though the wet grass kept the cats confined to their ledge by
the window.

Despite the lack of class of today's FOTD, the philosophy did
quite well today, as I gathered some recent musings about my
favorite topic, science and religion, and combined them into a
single essay.  The whole works will be ready for dissemination
by tomorrow.  If I don't edit the long article before then,
tomorrow's philofractal version of the FOTD discussion will
likely be the longest on record.

So don't miss the excitement, which will appear in roughly 24
hours.  Until then, take care, and address your complaints to:


Jim Muth
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