Holy crap, Jim, but that's a wonderful image! Jim Muth wrote:
FOTD -- December 04, 2008 (Rating 7.5)
Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:
NEW FORMULA ALERT! Today's image was created with a new form- ula, posted today for the first time -- the DivideBrot6. The new formula is a generalization of the DivideBrot5 formula, with the added ability to change the bailout radius to any value and also change the hard-coded Z^2 of the Dividebrot5 formula to any exponent of Z. But the new formula runs about 1/3 slower.
Today's image is named "Sacred or Demonic?". This name refers to the orientation of the 5-pointed star surrounding the quintic minibrot at the center. When such a five-pointed-star figure is oriented with a point directed straight up, it forms the star of Christmas, which symbolizes the sacred coming of salvation. But when this figure is rotated a mere 36 degrees so that a point is directed straight down, it forms the satanic pentagram, represen- ting a goat's head, with horns, ears and goatee, symbolic of the evil one himself. Since the star in today's image is oriented halfway between the sacred and profane positions, its meaning is ambiguous, open to any interpretation one wishes to give it.
The image is located on the main spike of the parent fractal, which is a confusing cross between a Mandelbrot set and the order-5 Mandeloid. This spike holds both order-5 Mandeloids and Julia-like figure-8 shaped holes, with today's image being located in a valley of a figure-8 hole.
I rated the image at 7.5. The coloring might have been improved if I had worked at it a bit longer, but it is good enough as it stands.
The magnitude of over 2*10^12 requires the mathtolerance entry to assure that the image is calculated at the correct magnitude.
The fast calculation time of 2 minutes makes the job of running the included parameter file almost a pleasure. But the trip to the FOTD web site at:
<http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html>
to view the already-calculated image is a lot more fun.
Total sun and a temperature of 43F 6C here at Fractal central on Wednesday equals contented fractal cats. If we forget the non- fractal work, my day was acceptable. The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and search for the perfect fractal.
Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com
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frm:DivideBrot6 { ; Jim Muth z=(0,0), c=pixel, a=real(p1), b=imag(p1)-2, d=real(p2)+0.00000000000000000001, f=imag(p2)+16: z=z^(a)/(z^(-b)+d)+c |z| < f }
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