FOTD -- September 24, 2003 (Rating 7) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: It's been six days since the last FOTD. This does not mean that I am losing my enthusiasm for the FOTD. The reason for the delay is that we had a hurricane here at Fractal Central, and the resulting power failure lasted almost 6 days. This was bad enough, but the work, which was quite a bit behind to start, got much farther behind during the time I could not work on it. I am now so far behind that I am in danger of losing customers due to my inability to deliver their jobs on time. As a result, this will be the last FOTD discussion until I catch up my other work, a task that will take at least several weeks, and possibly over a month of 12 hour days. I must work these hours until the pile of 'work to be done', which now holds over one week's work, has been reduced to a manageable size. In the meantime, I will continue to monitor the Fractint and Philofrac- tal lists. When I find the time, I will inject a few brief com- ments. It will be up to the lurkers to keep the lists alive and active for the duration. As a matter of curiosity, my e-mail box held 1181 letters when I checked it for the first time in 6 days. Most of them were junk, which together took almost 2 hours to download. The most curious letter informed me in broken english that I had been identified as a money launderer, and for some strange reason, requested my credit card number. I replied that I always launder my money. I use mild detergent and luke-warm water. Hot water makes the colors fade. ;-) ;-) Today's quickie fractal subtracts 1.11 parts of (1/Z) from Z^(1.11), then adds C. The parent fractal is a distorted M-set rotated -90 degrees, with a curving tail extending from its East Valley, which in this case is on the northeast side of the main bay. The scene is located at the end of a broad irregularly curving area of chaos on the main bay side of the northwest branch of the Seahorse Valley of the parent M-set. I named it "Sir Fractal Galahad". I have no idea what Sir Galahad has to do with fractals -- the name simply sounds noble in a comical way. And the picture looks good, honestly earning its rating of a 7. The render time of 7 minutes is short enough to be reasonable. The download, which is available on the FOTD web sites at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> and at: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> is even more reasonable. The fractal cats had perhaps the best time of their lives in the 6 days since the last FOTD was posted. As I predicted, the only casualties the big blow brought to Fractal Central were a 6-day power outage and a yard of broken tree branches. The dynamic cats watched from their window shelf with interest last Thursday night as the wind roared, trees fell, and the sky was illumina- ted by the blue flashes of falling power lines and the distant pops of blowing transformers. When the next day arrived, the cats were ready for a full day's romp in the yard, which, with nothing but clean-up to do, I was able to give them. Since then, the weather has been much better, the only exception being a heavy rain that brought more flooding to the area early Tuesday morning. The cats have had 5 full days in the outdoors with me there to watch over them, making them perhaps the two happiest cats in the world. But it's very disconcerting to have so much backed-up design work waiting to be finished. And with an additional pile of storm- associated stuff likely to come in, I'm not as happy as the cats. I guess that, like the linemen of the local electric company, I'll be working 12 and 14-hour days. I'll be doing it until I clear away enough backed-up work to resume the FOTD in a relaxed manner. Until next time and next FOTD, whenever that is, take care, and see you for certain in the relatively near but not immediate future. 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