[Fractint] FOTD 24-05-05 (Baleen [7])

24 May 2005

      FOTD -- May 24, 2005 (Rating 7)

Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's image is named "Baleen".  Baleen is the bony material, 
better known as whalebone, that baleen whales have hanging in 
their mouth.  It acts as a filter to collect the tiny organisms 
on which they feed.  Baleen was also used as corset stays to 
give the ladies their waspish waists when wasp-waists were in 
fashion.  I am not sure what baleen has to do with math and 
fractals, but for some strange reason I thought of it when I saw 
today's image.

The scene is once again the East Valley of the large midget on 
the main stem of an almost-Mandelbrot set, with the difference 
being that we are no longer at ground level of the logarithmic 
hyperspiral.  At this level, the same effect of an explosion in 
a railroad switching yard is there, though some subtle changes 
have appeared.

The image is striking enough to earn a rating of a 7.  The 
render time of 11 minutes (on my machine) is not strikingly 
short, but the minor delay may be avoided by downloading the 
pre-rendered GIF image from the FOTD web site at:

       <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html>

The rain threatened on Monday here at Fractal Central, but it 
never arrived.  The temperature reached a mild 66F 19C.  This 
is chilly when compared to the normal 77F 25C, but the fractal 
cats didn't mind.  They spent several hours in the yard, happily 
watching the birds fly by.  This morning is starting cloudy and 
quite chilly, with the rain finally in progress.  We'll have to 
see what the cats do about it.

For me it's business work first and fractal play second.  The 
next FOTD will appear in 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and 
if a four-dimensional planet existed, it could rotate in two 
different directions at the same time.

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

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