FOTD -- December 22, 2007 (Rating 8.5)

Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today and tomorrow we take a brief break from scenes in the 
December parent fractal to dive quite deep into the Mandelbrot 
set for a view of one of the most unusual scenes I have yet 
discovered there.  The location is on the northeast shore line 
of the large period-2 bud of the M-set, at a location near the 
border of Seahorse Valley where the Seahorse Valley character-
istics are just starting to take shape.

By the way, don't exert to much effort diving down to see the 
minibrot at the center.  It's a long slow trip, and I am almost 
there myself.  Tomorrow's FOTD will be a picture of that tiny 
atom.

I named today's image "Halfway to Nowhere" because the scene 
lies about halfway to the unseen minibrot at the center.  But 
even though we are only halfway to the goal in today's image, 
the magnitude of over 8.4(10^47) is not to be sneezed at, or 
coughed at either.

The rating of 8-1/2 has nothing to do with an old Fellini movie. 
It indicates that, in my opinion, not only is the image much 
above average, but my coloring is worth another half point as 
well.

The down-side is the calculation time, which, due to the extreme 
magnitude, is a dragged-out 22 minutes on the fast machine and 
over 1-1/2 hours on the slow one.  Slow images like this make 
a fractalist appreciate the FOTD web site at:

       

where the image will soon be posted for viewing without the 
hassle of calculation.  And to speed things up I have sent the 
finished image on ahead to Paul to save him the time it would 
take to run the parameter file.  Of course, those who enjoy long 
calculations may always run the parameter file themselves.  It 
works quite well.

Friday here at Fractal central started cloudy, turned sunny by 
11am, clouded up at 2pm and cleared at 5pm, while the tempera-
ture reached 43F 6C.  Since this was the shortest day of the 
year, I think we did pretty good.  The fractal cats must have 
agreed, for they passed the day watching squirrels.

My day was on the busy side, but still well under control.  The 
next FOTD fractal, a close-up of the invisible minibrot at the 
center of today's image, will be posted in 24 hours.  Until 
then, take care, and how deep can you go?  Check back tomorrow 
for a demonstration


Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com
jimmuth@aol.com


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