FOTD -- April 28, 2010 (Rating 6) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's image, which shows a cubic minibrot, is interesting, which means I see nothing unusually good in it, yet I want to say something. I could rate it no higher than a 6 because all day Tuesday I had a case of 'fractalist's block'. This strange ailment is much the same as writer's block, where no matter how hard the writer tries, the inspired words simply will not come. With a fractal artist, the inspired images will not come. I worked on the coloring for a full 20 minutes, which is a long time by FOTD standards, and ended up with a color palette no better than the one I started with. In the end, I returned to the original colors and did a bit of tweaking. The parent fractal is a standard Mandelbrot set caught in the act of morphing into a cubic Mandeloid, and doing it without the discontinuities that usually plague the fractals with in-between exponents. Today's image is located on the negative X-axis deep in a valley that splits the cubic bud at that location into two halves The name "Cubic Anticipation" implies great things to come. Un- fortunately, the result falls short of the anticipation. The calculation time of 3-1/4 minutes is a little more than the image is worth, but the result, if not awe-inspiring, will at least be 'interesting'. The interesting image may be found in finished form on the FOTD web site at: <http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/> The sky was partly cloudy here at Fractal Central on Tuesday, but the brisk north wind and temperature of 50F 10C made it feel like anything but the end of April. The fractal cats must have agreed. They spent a good part of the day climbing all over the book shelves in the hallway. Nicholas was a little too athletic when he squeezed behind a row of books and knocked them onto the floor, sending me running to see what had happened. For FL and me the day was averagely normal. The next FOTD, maybe average, maybe not, will be posted in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and I have no qualms about admitting when the Fractal of the Day falls short, as it does today. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Cubic_Anticipation { ; time=0:03:13.73-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm formulaname=FinalDivideBrot function=recip passes=1 center-mag=-1.7542946013084/+0.0002529651317445\ /6.3388e+009/1/20/0 params=3/1/0/0 float=y inside=0 maxiter=2400 logmap=338 symmetry=none periodicity=6 colors=000ME1LF2LF3KF4KF5JF6JG7IG8IG9HGAHGBGHCGHDG\ HEFHFFHHEIJEILDINDIPCIRCJTBJVBJXAJZAJZAJZBLZCMZDNZ\ STIRQGQNDOKBNH8zeczdczbczacz_czZczXczWczUczTczRczQ\ czOUzNUzMUzPUzRUzUUzWUzYUz`UubUseUpdWpaYp__pYapWcq\ ocqobroaro`so_soZtoYtoXtrWuuVuwUvzTwzSxzRyzQzzPzzQ\ zzRzzSzzTzzUzzVzzWvzXrv_mrbhmehhhickj_nkWqlStmQwjO\ shMoeKkcNgaQcZT_XWWVZSSaOQdKOgGMdHKaIIZIGWJESJCOKB\ KJ9GJ7CD58830210000040670EA4KE3NH3QK2TO2WR1ZU1aT7e\ SDkRIpTKvVLzXMzZOw`PwbQxdRxfTxhUyjVykWyLmvQkwUjwYi\ wagwefwjexncxrbxvaxz`xuZvqYumWtiVreUqaSpYRoUQmQOlM\ NkIMjPJgVGdaDagAZn7Wt4Tz1Qw8NuELsKJqQHoWFmbCkhAin8\ gt6zzmcv8zsCapG`mKZiNYfRXcVW`ZVYaXZZYZW_ZUzzzbZPcZ\ MeZJfZHhZziZzdUz`PzXzzTWzQZzTXzWVzZTzaRzdPzgNziLzj\ OzjRzjz8jzAjzBjzCjzDjzFjzGjzHjzzjzzjzzjzzhzzfzzdzz\ PzzRzzSzzUzzVzzUzzUzzUzzTzzTzzTzzTzzWzzYzz`zzbzzez\ zgzzjzzlzzlzzlzzlzzlzzlzz } frm:FinalDivideBrot { ; Jim Muth z=(0,0), c=pixel, a=-(real(p1)-2), esc=(real(p2)+16), b=imag(p1)+0.00000000000000000001: z=(-b)*(z*z*fn1(z^(a)+b))-c |z| < esc } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================