Dr. J is, no doubt about it, bent out of shape tonight, even though he is trying his best to hid it. Maybe he has caught a cold or flu, with all his going out and about late at night down at the watering hole. As near as I can tell, he is down at his lab again, this time he is trying to jam the signals I receive here. So I am having a great deal of difficulty following his search for the origins of Fractal Space. Although, we are getting some very interesting messages on the subject from Jim Muth's Fractal of the Day. Obviously, the day time channels are coming more clearly.
Have you ever seen those test patterns transmitted by TV stations when they are 'off line'? That is all I got most of the evening. Maybe it is because of the cold I got from too much snooping through the windows of the watering hole. Anyway, tonight's picture is as clear as I can get it, after much filtering and distortion removal. Yes, I think I can see Dr. J, twisted toward the right and in a swirl of filaments. His jamming signal is coming in just too strongly. The jamming signal is the upright midget in white, red, green and blue. It will take a pixel by pixel filter to completely clear this up, and all the color information in the original is now lost. It was that red, green and blue jamming signal that did it. Oh well.
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Figure 1. Test Pattern.
In any case, I hope this post gets through his other jamming efforts. Funny, it was only at the beginning of this month that Dr. J was taking great pains to get his message out!
Stay connected,
Jay
The parameter and formula files for Fractint are included below. Copy them
into a quickie.par file for quick loading into Fractint. For longer term
use, copy the frm: block into a FotN.frm file. But this time leave off the
'frm:' part. Then copy the rest (the par parts) into your FotN.par
file.
frm:classic_shift_b { ; (c) Jay Hill, 1998
; shift one midget over another, merge images
; p1 = shift of first midget
; p2 = scaling factor of first midget relative to second
; p3 = shift of second midget
; use outside=summ periodicity=0 passes=1 float=y
done = 1, z = 0,
zc = c = (pixel+p3)*(1-whitesq) + (pixel/p2+p1) *whitesq
s=|c|, t1=(256*s - 96)*s + 32*Real(c), t2=16*s + 32*Real(c) + 16
B=sqrt(-4*c-7), t3=|8+4*c*(1-B)|, t4=|8+4*c*(1+B)| ; component tests
z=z + 249*(t1<=3) + 250*(t2<=1) + 251*(t3<=1) + 252*(t4<=1) ;
set colors
if(z>0) ; for periods 1, 2, 3
done=-1 ; color is set for c in a component, skip iterations
endif
:
zc=sqr(zc) + c ; standard MSet iteration
if (|zc| >= 4) ; Bailout at 4
done=-1 ; Set flag to force an exit.
endif
done >= 0 ; Continue if the flag >=0.
}
benttestpattern { ; (C) Jay Hill, 1998
reset=1960 type=formula formulafile=colorit5.par
formulaname=classic_shift_b passes=1
center-mag=-0.0979732/-0.20058/0.6666667/1/-90
params=0.3394575057473174/0.05088949841552571/0/1800/-0.4/0.2
float=y maxiter=256 inside=247 outside=summ symmetry=xaxis
periodicity=0
colors=000000www000www000www000www000www000www000www000www000www000www00\
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cyclerange=0/244
}
