FOTD -- March 08, 2003 (Rating 5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's image takes us back to perhaps the most familiar of all fractal areas -- Seahorse Valley of the classic Mandelbrot Set. This is the first area of the first fractal I investigated when I loaded my first fractal-generating program those many years ago, and the area still holds undiscovered surprises. Today's image illustrates a second-order midget that lies in the suburbs of a larger midget that lies fairly deep in the eastern shore of the north branch of Seahorse Valley. The parent midget quite closely resembles the midget in the image, though, being of a much lesser magnitude, the surrounding pattern is packed closer to the midget itself. I named the image "Classic Mandelbrot" for obvious reasons. Since it is part of such a familiar area, I could rate the picture no higher than an average 5. The render time of almost 4 hours, (at least on my machine), makes a download of the finished GIF image almost compulsory. The download may be found on Paul's web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> and on Scott's site at: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> The FOTD-CD is moving slowly toward completion. (I do realize I have said this before!) The slowness is caused by the fact that for every problem I fix, I find a new problem that needs fixing. The problem I'm currently working on was created when I altered formulas without changing their names, which causes parameter files to go to the wrong version of the formula and come up blank. When I solve this problem, I can begin changing the cryptic names of the GIF image files to names that corres- pond to the dates of the discussion. Hopefully, when this is done, I will make the big announcement. With a high remperature of 35F 1.5C, the fractal weather Friday was too chilly for the cats' paws. Also, the ground is still snow-covered. As a result, the duo spent the afternoon indoors, impatiently waiting for spring to arrive. But today (Saturday) was warmer, and the duo endured their wet cold paws as they spent a half hour checking their territory in the 50F 10C air temperature. I spent the day working and trying to iron out the problems in the FOTD CD. But Sunday I'm going to take a break, and forget work and fractals until Monday. Until next Saturday, when the next FOTD will appear, take care, and anything worth having is worth waiting for -- especially a few thousand fractals. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Classic_Mandelbrot { ; time=3:57:10.20--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=mandel passes=1 center-mag=-0.74963267010048157994/0.0428524754544\ 0457101/1.854429e+015/1/-14.9995309297261645/0.002\ 6741626797626844 params=0/0 float=y maxiter=32000 inside=0 logmap=3037 periodicity=10 colors=0001KQ2KQ2KQ3KQ3KQ4KQ4KQ5KQ5KQ9KMDKJHKGLKDP\ KATK7XE4ZH8_KBaNEbPHdSKeVNgYQh_TjbXke_mhbnjepmhqok\ snntlqrjpphoofnmdmlblj_kiWjgTjePidLhbIgaEf_AeZ7dX3\ cW0cXAdYFeZKf_Pg`UhaZibcjbhk`ml_nmYonWpoVqpTrqRrrQ\ psOnrMlpLjnJhlHfjGdhEbfC`dBZb9X`7VZ6TX4RV2PT1OR3PQ\ 4QP5QO6RN8RM9SLASKBTJCUIEUHFVGGVFHWEJWDKXCLYBMYANZ\ 9PZ8Q_7R_6S`5T`5UZ8VXBVVDWUGXSJXQLYOOZNRZLT_JW_IY`\ KXaLXbMXcNXdPXeQXfRXgSXhTXhVWiWWjXWkYWlZWm`WnaWobW\ pcWpdWkaYgZ_bW`ZUbURcQOeMMfNOgOPhORiPSjPTkQVlQWmRX\ nRZoS_oSapTbqTcrUesUftVguVivWjwWkwVlsVmpVnmUnjUogU\ pdTqaTqYTrVSsSStPStMRuJRvGRvDSsCSqCUoCZmCckChjCmkC\ rlCwmBznBwoBrpBmqBhrBcsBZtBUuNPvYKtZFs_Fr`JqaNpbRn\ bVmcZldbkefjfjifkkellemmenneooeppeqqdrrdssdttduudu\ vdpxWkyNfzEgzHgzJgzMgzOgzQgzTgzVgzXgz_gzagzdgzfgzh\ gzkgzmgzogzrgztgzvezucztbzs`zr_zqYzpXzoWzlWzjWzhWz\ fVzdVzbVz_MzKFzM7zO0zQ1zQ } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================