FOTD -- April 04, 2010 (Rating 7.5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's image is named "Bright Holiday", a very appropriate name. Today is Easter Sunday, and in Russia the popular name for Easter is 'Bright Holiday'. The colors of the image are very bright, so I decided to take full advantage of the coincidental situation?' The parent fractal is a wonder to behold. In fact, it's a wonder how it can be called a fractal at all. This parent is nothing more than a narrow straight vertical stick with buds along its edges. It came about when I subtracted plain Z from two parts of Z^2 then added (1/C). The scene is located in a kind of seahorse-tail associated with a bud on the eastern edge of the northern branch of the parent stick. The seahorse theme permeates the image, with curly tails beyond counting. The tiny minibrot at the center is a bit mis-shapen in the SF5 image, though at higher resolution it quickly shapes up. The rating of a 7-1/5 includes 1/2 point for the extra coloring work. The calculation time of just under 9 minutes is on the slow side, so why not save the effort and take a virtual trip to view the finished image on the FOTD web site at: <http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/> Today is Easter Sunday. I am not a believer in resurrecting gods, but I am not a totally disbelieving Atheist either. My opinion is that something must have happened a couple thousand years ago because a religion certainly did get started. I'll leave it to the scholars and philosophers to argue exactly what did take place back then. Rather hazy skies dimmed the sun slightly here at Fractal Central on Saturday, but the temperature of 75F 24C made up for any solar weakness. The fractal cats must have thought it was a perfect day, for they were on their best behavior all afternoon. The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours. Until then, take care in whatever way you can, and look on the bright side. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Bright_Holiday { ; time=0:08:51.71-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+0.7880878839407799/+15.13423460949373/\ 4.659745e+011/1/-84.5/0 params=2/2/-1/1/0/0/0/0 float=y maxiter=5200 inside=0 logmap=650 periodicity=6 mathtolerance=0.05/1 colors=0000dJ2dO4dU4dX6db9deBdkDdqGdtJdzJfzLhzOjzR\ lzUnzXpz_rzWtzOvzDwz4xv0yr0zm0zh0zc0zh0zm0zr0zv0zz\ 0zz2zz9zzJzzRzzbzwkzqhzkezebz__zXXwUUtUOrULqUGqUOq\ 9cqUhqqmqzrqzvqzzqzvqzrqvpqrmqmkqhqqczqZzqUztKzw6z\ wDzt9zq4zn0zk0wh0we0wb0w_4wX6zU9zRBzOBzLDzJGzGJzDJ\ zBOz9Rz6Xz4_z4bz6hz6kw9nqBtnDwhGzbJzXLzULzXOz_OzbO\ wbOteOqhOkhOhkOenO_nRXqRRtROtRLwRGzRDzRBzR6zR4zR2z\ O0wO0tL0qL0nJ0kJ0eG0bG0_D0XD0UB0RB0LB0J90G90D60B60\ 9404402200200000000000402924D69JDBOLGRRJX_ObeRhnXn\ wbtzewzkzznzztzzwzzwzzwzzwzzqzzhtzbkzX_zOOzJDzD6wB\ Bq9Gk6Le4R_2XX0bR0hL0nG0tB0z60z2z0q0z00z40z90zB0wG\ k0000O00U06X0Jb0_e6nkDznLzqRzhXzbbzXezRkzLqzGtzBzz\ 6zz2zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0qz0hzz_zzRzzJzzBzz4zz0\ zz0zz0zz0zz0zzzzzzz0zz2zz2zz4tz4zz6zz6zz6zzBzzGzzL\ zzRqzXhzbXzhOznGzt9zw0zq0zk0ze0zb0zk0zq6zzGzzRzz_z\ zezzkzzqzzwzznznhzbbzOUzD } 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=========================================