December 19, 2011: Blobsville | Dec. 18 | Dec. 20 | 2011 | FOTD Home |
Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:
Today's
image is
named "Blobsville". The name refers to the blob-like things
filling the frame. I have a kind of soft spot for
blobs.
Back in my impressionable years, one of my favorite movies was 'The
Blob', a low-budget production that was filmed in a small Pennsylvania
town not too far from here, and actually managed to rise above its
low-budget status.
The original blob was an oozing hunk of gelatin from somewhere in outer
space that terrorized the town's teenagers until they finally convinced
the local police that their town was actually being invaded by a puddle
of raspberry jello. The disgusting creature was finally quick
frozen by CO2 fire extinguishers as it terrorized the local diner, and
dropped onto the arctic ice cap, where it presumably will stay until
global warming melts the ice and it returns to life to terrorize towns
like Barrow Alaska.
Today's image will create no terror, though its rating of only 7-1/2
might bring disappointment. The generating expression
combines
Z^(-0.01) with 0.01 part of Z^(101) then adds (C) on each
iteration. This unlikely combination creates a parent fractal
that at first glance appears to be the expected circle of radius one
with 100 tiny bays along its perimeter. A closer look however
reveals some strange happenings around the edges.
Today's scene lies in an unexpected valley inside the tiny bay along
the X-axis at the eastern edge of the parent circle. (Other
bays
might have similar scenes. I haven't checked.)
The image is a mixture of inside and outside parts, which are difficult
to tell apart. The outside parts were rendered with a setting
of
'tdis'; the inside parts, with a setting of 'fmod' and a proximity of
0.3.
The calculation time of 1-1/2 minutes will be no problem.
Today turned out notably average here at Fractal Central, with morning
sunshine, afternoon clouds and a temperature that rose from 25F -4C at
sunrise to an afternoon high of 45F +7C. The fractal cats
complained that the sun vanished just as it was about to fall on their
sun shelf in the southwest window.
FL and I, the local humans, (though FL sometimes says I'm inhuman),
spent the day wrapping up the serious work and preparing for the big
day this coming Sunday. The next FOTD will appear in 24
hours. Until then, take care, and judging from the number of
people who know of Santa Claus and the number who know of me, which of
us has the greater reality?
Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net
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Blobsville
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time=0:01:30.00 SF5 at 2000MHZ
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175/0 params=1/-0.01/0.01/101/0/0/0/0 periodicity=6
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frm:MandAutoCritInZ {; 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)+(p4)),
k=real(p3)+1, l=imag(p3)+100, c=fn1(pixel):
z=k*((a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f)))+c,
|z| < l }
END PARAMETER FILE=========================================