FOTD -- June 01, 2008 (Rating 8)

Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's FOTD image is a true case of serendipity.  I had another 
image ready to be posted as the FOTD for June 1, but one of the 
fractal cats, (Cassandra), leaped onto the keyboard and caused 
the program to terminate before I had saved the parameters or 
image, which I had named "Fish Ladder" and rated at a 7.

In frustration I re-booted the program and found a second image, 
this one in the parent fractal that is created when 11 negative 
parts of Z^(-1.1) are combined with 1 negative part of Z^(-11) 
and (1/C) is added, a combination that creates a parent fractal 
with an outstanding fractal 'fan' unfolding east from the 
origin.

Today's scene is located on the northeast edge of this 'fan', 
which explains the name "Edge of the Fan".  Surprisingly, the 
second FOTD for today rates an 8, a full point higher than the 
first, which was a rather similar image

The calculation time of 5-1/2 minutes is reasonably convenient.  
A short trip to the FOTD web site at:

       

to see the finished image is equally reasonable.

Morning rain here at Fractal Central on Saturday gave way to 
afternoon sun and a temperature of 82F 28C.  This made the 
fractal cats happy, and they showed their satisfaction by doing 
what cats usually do when they are satisfied.  They curled up 
and went to sleep.

My day was slow enough to permit two satisfactory fractals.  
Tomorrow should be slow again, which promises that another 
satisfactory fractal will appear here in 24 hours, plus or minus 
a few.  Until then, take care, and I thought the wonder years 
were long past.


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


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frm:MandAutoCritInZ {; Jim Muth
a=real(p1), b=imag(p1), d=real(p2), f=imag(p2),
g=1/f, h=1/d, j=1/(f-b), z=(((-a*b*g*h)^j)+(p4)),
k=real(p3)+1, l=imag(p3)+100, c=fn1(pixel):
z=k*((a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f)))+c,
|z| < l }  END PARAMETER FILE========================================= 


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