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Article #407A warning to DEEPZOOMers
From: Jay R. Hill
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 19:44
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 19:44
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A warning to DEEPZOOM users.
Few can forecast the effects of technology on our futures as well
as Arthur C. Clarke. Since he has written of at least one who
zoomed too deep once too often, we might want to be careful. In
his 1990 novel _The Ghost from the Grand Banks_, he describes one
Edith Craig at the Torrington Clinic for psychological disorders,
who is mentaly locked in a 40 digit deep zoom into the Mandelbrot
Set.
Hmmmm. There are now about 70 who have gotten my DEEPZOOM program.
In the novel Clarke notes that "there are no less than sixty-three
examples of Mandelmania now in the data banks."
Warmly,
Jay "Not tonight honey, just another factor of ten, just..." Hill
--
{ hilljr@jupiter.saic.com } begin writeln(3*ln(640320)/sqrt(163):17:15) end.
void main(){double sqrt(), y=1/sqrt(2.), a=.5, m=1,z; int n=0;
for(;m*=2,z=sqrt(1-y*y),y=(1-z)/(1+z),a=a*(1+y)*(1+y)-m*y,n<4;n++);
printf("%17.15lf\n",1/a);}
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ed18,33ed0291f819d036,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10ed18,public X-Google-Thread: ff06e,33ed0291f819d036,start X-Google-Attributes: gidff06e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-12-13 18:55:37 PST Newsgroups: sci.fractals,bit.listserv.frac-l Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!noao!CS.Arizona.EDU!zippy.Telcom.Arizona.EDU!mvb.saic.com!ast.saic.com!jupiter!hilljr From: hilljr@jupiter.saic.com (Jay R. Hill) Subject: A warning to DEEPZOOMers Message-ID: <1993Dec13.194400.26337@ast.saic.com> Followup-To: sci.fractals Sender: news@ast.saic.com Organization: SAIC Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 19:44:00 GMT Lines: 21