FOTD -- June 20, 2010 (Rating 5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: The calculation time of today's image is no mistake. It finishes in a little over 1 second. The parent fractal is the Mandelbrot set, and the image is located on the north shore line of the main bay, just west of the large bud. I named the image "Break a Leg". The phrase came to mind of its own accord. I think it means something like 'good luck', which I hope the fractal has. But how much luck can another image in the Mandelbrot set have? The rating of a 5 means I am neither pleased nor displeased with the image, the likes of which has been seen countless times before. To see the image copy this letter with a .par extension to your Fractint directory and run it like any parameter file. If the image does not appear in a few seconds, something is wrong. If something does go wrong or your machine has forgotten how to run DOS programs, see the finished image on the FOTD web site at: <http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/> Heat and humidity returned to Fractal Central on Saturday, with partly cloudy, hazy skies and a temperature of 93F 34C. The fractal cats took to the cool tile floor early in the day and slept there until evening. My day was about average, while FL spent a good part of the afternoon fretting about her flowers, which wilted in the heat. The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and pass the idle time with an interesting fractal. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Break_a_Leg { ; time=0:00:01.21-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=mandel center-mag=-0.1937408443716\ 891/+0.65434656770299990/8.5247e+012/1/-157/0 params=0/0 float=y maxiter=4200 bailout=6 inside=0 mathtolerance=0.05/1 colors=000KLjKMiKNhKOgKPfKQeKRdKScKTbKUaLV`MW_NXZO\ YYPZXL_WI_VE_UG_TI_SK_RM_QOYPQXOSVQUUJWTDYRI_PNaNS\ cLWaJ`ZHeWFiTDnQBsO9wIHoDPg8W_DYcI_gNakScnXeragvfi\ yhguierjcnkakm_gnYdoW`pVYdZbTagHdl6gq8ik9kfBmaCoXE\ pSFrNHtIIvDJw8Ls9MpANmAOiBQfBRcCS_CTXDUUDTXFS_GRaH\ RdJQfKPiLPlNOnONqPNsQUiN_`LfSJlJHrAFwN6U`X0mw8inGe\ fNaYVYQaVIZUJWTJUSJRRJOQJMPJJOJHNJEMJBLJ9KJ6JJ4IJE\ ELNAMOFPOJSPNUPRXQVZQZaRcdRgfSkiSokTsnTwpUtoVqoVoo\ WloXioXgoYdoYboZ_o_Xo_Vo`So`QobShdTbfVWgWQiXJkZDnZ\ 6oZ0pZ4qY8rXBsWFtVIuTMvTPwTTxSWyR_zQbwR`tSZqSXnSVk\ SThUSeUQbUO_TMXTKVSJTQERP9PO5NM8LLBJAEHAHFAKEANCAP\ BCSAEV9GY8I`7Kc6MhCOmIQrOSvUUzZVzcZzcczchzcmzcrzcv\ zeHUbGX`FZYEaWEcTDfRChOBkMBmPGkRLiTPgVUeXYcZba`f_b\ kYdoXamYZkZXi_Ug`SeaPcdR`hUcmchrmmvtrzzvzzzzzzz6zU\ IzGNzHRzIWzJ_zLdzMhzNmzOqzPvzQzzRxzTwzUvzVuzXtzYsz\ Zrz`qzapzbozdnzemzflzhkzi } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================