On 03/22/2012 11:47 AM, Jim Muth wrote:
FOTD -- March 22, 2012 (Rating 7+)
Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:
Today's image lies in the East Valley of a minibrot far out on the negative spike of a Mandelbrot set with Z^13 corruption in its depths. The bailout radius has been intentionally set close to the point where the entire image will be totally cut off. This adds more detail to the scene. The image magnitude of almost 10^13 is perilously close to the point of resolution breakdown, though this has little effect on the scene.
(Fractint bug alert: if the value of the imag(p1) parameter is entered in the parameter file as 1000000000000000 , the program reads the value as -1530494976 Changing the parameter file entry to 1000000000000000.0 [adding a decimal point and a zero] cures the problem. Something else is being picked up, but I cannot see what.)
The name "Unlucky Thirteen" refers to the Z^13 corruption of the parent fractal. Actually thirteen is considered unlucky because it was on a Friday the thirteenth that the order went out to destroy the Templars.
Unlucky? If you were a Templar, I suppose. If you were a French king desperately trying to fill an empty treasury, quite lucky the Templars were there.
The rating of a 7+ indicates my uncertainty as to the true worth of the image.
I rate it BEAUTIFUL! The colors look amazingly smooth for the restricted Fractint palette. -- David gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community