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5. Preprocessing

If you try to apply the suggested recipe as it is,you will get a lot of uninteresting images like the ones which have the same color everywhere. I have used some cuts to eliminate these images. These cuts are also necessary to speed up the process of discovery of new formulas, since it is applied after the random algorithm is generated but before it is used to compute the complete image. I keep only those formulas where a large percentage of points are not equal and have a value bigger than a certain threshold. Another possible cut is used to have more symmetrical images. For this I tried the following test: I accept only algorithms that in the single iteration will give the same results for (x,y) and (-x,-y) for a few random set of of values. Of course these cuts are all a matter of personal taste and the best way is to play with them.


Giuseppe Zito
Wed Jul 31 18:19:39 MET DST 1996