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In article <1993Nov16.195018.42848@Lehigh.EDU>, reiterc@lafcol.lafayette.edu (Reiter Clifford A) writes:
|> Jay R. Hill (hilljr@jupiter.saic.com) wrote:
|> : |> lmitchel@nyx.cs.du.edu (lloyd mitchell) writes:
|> : |>>I was playing with Fractint last night, and came up with (what I 
|> : |>>thought) was a good idea.  How about a "Best of Fractint" compilation
|> : |>>/contest?
|> : -> As it stands now, in consideration of issues raised so far, is 
|> : -> that the "Best of Fractint" would be only a compilation, not a 
|> : -> competition.  I'm favoring hardcopy or
|> ...[much deleted]
|> :   There are potentialy thousands who might like these pictures, 
|> : but the readership of FRAC-L is a few hundred, Amgdala is a few hundred 
|> : and sci.fractals may be a thousand.
|> 
|>   By the way, I think that "Best of Fractint" is too limited - go for fractal
|> (in a very informal sense) images of any source.
|>   Best,  Cliff
|> -- 
|> Clifford A. Reiter
|> Mathematics Department, Lafayette College
|> Easton, PA 18042 USA,   215-250-5277

On the list FRAC-L <FRAC-L%GITVM1.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> the same idea
was expressed:
>>In article <MAILQUEUE-101.931118161236.508@stud.hum.aau.dk>, Jesper Juul
>><NORJJ@STUD.HUM.AAU.DK> writes...
>>>Dear fellow FRAC-L'ers:
>>>
>>>I do think a contest, including the distribution thereof, is a great
>>>idea. But I also think that such a contest should include all kinds
>>>of fractals from all kinds of programs from all kinds of platforms.
>>>Wouldn't that be much more nice?
>>
>>        I do use Fractint, but not exclusively, so I agree that the contest
>>should not be limited to Fractint only.  While it is very versitile, it isn't
>>the only one and a net-based contest shouldn't be limited to a single
>>program or platform. How about retitling it "The best of Internet Fractal
>>Contest", or something like that? It should encourage other fractal program
>>users to show their stuff. It might even show some area's where Fractint
>>can be expanded or improved. What! Even more?

How about two contests or collections?  Fractint has a distinctive 
style.  I think it would be interesting to see what can be produced 
with it.  Those who have Fractint can learn from these samples and 
do further exploration.

While I might admire a 3D rendering from a fine Amiga product, I 
don't have an Amiga and must leave it there without further 
exploration.  It would appear that expanding to all comers is an 
attempt to not leave anyone out.  This is fine, my DEEPZOOM program 
can get an entry then. ;^}  Maybe the Cub Scout Pine Wood Dirby car 
contest is a good model to follow.  They have many catagories: best 
colors, most inventive, most humor, most unexpected, best theme, most 
ingenious,  most patriotic, most creative, most original etc. etc. etc. 
so that the list of awards is about 80% of the membership.  We could 
have best from SUN, Silicon Graphics, PC, Mac, Amiga, IBM, Cray, etc 
platforms; best of Fractint, best of MandelPro, best of DEEPZOOM; and 
then most colorful, most beautiful, most technical, most bizarre, most 
detail, most artistic, etc etc etc etc ;-) :-) 8^]

I want to publish a book of fractals (join the club).  It would have 
100 to 200 color plates.  Now I get the idea that each one could be 
subtitled with an award catagory, like the Rose parade.  Is this a 
good idea or just a good (bad) joke line???

Warmly,
Jay 'Not tonight honey, I'm admiring contest pictures' 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);}