FOTD -- January 23, 2012 (Rating 7.5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's level 7-1/2 image is another venture into a corrupted oversized Mandelbrot set. With the imag(p1) parameter being negative, this M-set is rotated 180 degrees, with its normally westward-pointing spike pointing eastward. The change to a quartic Mandeloid is just beginning to appear as an irregularity in the M-set's minor buds and traces of outside stuff scattered about the inside of its main bay and buds. Today's image lies in a speck of outside stuff that has just condensed inside the main bay of the parent M-set. The large quartic Minibrot in the image stands out like a gold medal of honor against a celestial blue background, but I doubt that a fractal can have something as subjective as honor, so I named the image "Badge of Merit", which is a smaller award, but something that may honestly be applied to a fractal. The recent string of images with a rating of 7-1/2 continues unbroken. But as I said recently, such a rating is not to be sneezed at. If today's image did not resemble recent images so closely, the rating might have been higher. The calculation time of 25 seconds is one of the briefest on record, and will bring impatience to no one. Even this brief time may be saved however by surfing over to the official FOTD web site at: <http://www.crosscanpuzzles.com/Archives.html> where the finished image is posted in its full glory for all the world to see. The image is even more glorious when viewed in high definition. The high-definition version is posted at: <http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/jim_muths_fotd.html> The incomprehensible glory of the entire catalog of FOTD images is available on the original FOTD web site at: <http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/> Heavy clouds, occasional icy rain and a temperature of 36F +2C made the day a dreary one here at Fractal Central, which is far more dedicated to fractals in the FOTD discussions than in real life. The fractal cats, who are as real as cats can be, had a cattish day of getting into real trouble. Cassie, who has a way of making herself invisible, was missing most of the afternoon, while Nicholas spent his day watching the world go by. The two humans made it through another day uneventfully. The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and answer the big questions of life before tackling trivial distractions such as the much ballyhooed but so-far futile search for a theory of everything (except the conscious minds of those who are doing the searching). Jim Muth jimmuth@earthlink.net START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Badge_of_Merit { ; time=0:00:25.00 SF5 at 2000MHZ reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm formulaname=MultiExp function=recip center-mag=+24.65263034713407/+0.00121896946679421\ /8554277/1/32/0 params=4/-14 float=y maxiter=1500 inside=0 logmap=45 periodicity=6 colors=00000900A00B00C00D00E00G00J00M00P00S00V00Y0\ 0b00f00j00n02r04v07z0Az07z04v02r00m00h00c00Z00U00P\ 00K00H01D12A03704427839C4BF5DJ6FM7HQ8JU9LXAN`BPcCR\ gDTjCWfCZcBa`BdYBgVAjSAmPApM9sJ9vG9xDBuGDsIFqKGoNI\ mPKkRMhUNfWPdYRb`T`bUZdWWgYUi_Sk`QnbOpdMreKtfHpfEl\ fBhf8df6`g_ZfX_eV_nXnnYnm_mm`mmbmlcmlemlfmlgmkilkj\ lklljmojorjpvjqzlkzmfzoazpWrrRmsMmtHmrGkqGjoGhnGgl\ FekFdiFbhFafE`eEZcEYbEW`DV_DTYDSXDRWESVETmETmFUmFV\ mFVmGWmGXmGXmHYmHZmHZmJYmKXmLWmMWmNVmOUKQUJRTJSSIT\ RIURHVQHXPHYPGZOG_NF`MFaMFcLEdKEeKDfJDgIChHCjHCkGB\ lFBmFAnEAoDApDBnEClFCkGDiGEgHEfIFdJGzJGzKHzLHzMIzM\ JzNJzOKzPLzPLzQMzRMzSNzSOzTOzUPzVmzVmzWmzXmzXmzVmz\ UmzSmzRzzQzzOzzNzzMzzKzzJzzHzzG5lF3oD1rCzuBmsCmrDm\ tEmuFmvGmwHmxImyJmzKmzLmzMmzNmzOmzPmzQmzSmzVmzXmz_\ mzamzcmzfmzhmzkmzmmzpmzrmztjzojzjjzfjzajzYjzTjzOjz\ KjzFjzBjz6jz2VzCOzJMzILzH } frm:MultiExp { ; Jim Muth z=(0,0), c=pixel, a=-(real(p1)-2), b=imag(p1)+0.00000000000000000001: z=z*z*fn1(z^(a)+b)+c |z| < 100000000 } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================