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- This file contains the SMURF2.PAR file that has some more Smurf discoveries.
- Since the advent of my 486-33 my sense of time has been blown to Hades. Every
- thing runs fast on this machine so it is hard to say how fast these batches
- will run on someone else's machine. I hope they are not too slow.
-
- The file FLIP.FRM contains formulas utilizing the FLIP function. There are 3
- fliped Mandelbrot formulas and their respective Julia style formulas.
-
- Another formula is a "Non-conformal" depicted in the 1992 Fractal Universe
- Calender (August) from Media Magic. The inside=zmag has some very interesting
- structure. Non-conformals are those where the parts of the Mandelbrot
- quadratic equation are added/subtracted in different ways from the standard
- solution of the formula. The flip0 is considered a non-conformal. Note
- how the intergers are converted to a complex number (z = x + flip(y)).
-
- BTW this calender is incredibly beautiful.
-
- Two other formulas are included, PHOENIX_J and PHOENIX_M. The Phoenix_j curve
- was discovered by Shigehiro Ushiki at Kyoto University. The creation of
- the map version was done by Roger Stevens in his "Fractal Programming in C".
- The interesting aspect of this formula is that the Phoenix doesn't lie at any
- interesting point on the map. It is at co-ordinates 0.56667 / -0.5 which is
- off the lower right side in a very boring section. One that I found is at
- 0.1 / 0.8 off the top right hand side; which is also a very boring place on
- the map. There are probably several more Phoenixes waiting to be found. BTW,
- it was while trying to devise a better map that I discovered the zmag coloring
- scheme for Mandelbrots.
-
- Included also is the testpt.c for the Phoenix for those with the Fractint
- source. I feel it would be a great addition to the Fractint stable of hard
- coded fractals. But since I couldn't figure out how to do it before and since
- I no longer have the Fractint source, I guess it will have to remain for
- some one else to accomplish this.
-
- Brainy Smurf
-