FOTD -- July 18, 2005 (Rating 6) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: In today's fractal I changed the Z^2 of yesterday's image to Z^2.5, resulting in a larger parent figure-eight fractal, with a more complex valley on the east side. This east-valley area holds much of interest. Unable to examine everything, I chose a curious bud shaped like a midget. The filaments of this bud-midget have curious holes scattered along them. Today's scene is located on the shoreline of one of these holes. I named the image "It Laid an Egg". The name has nothing to do with the quality of the image. It refers to the egg-shaped area surrounding the central midget, and the questionable things going on within. The expected 2,4,8... series of elements seems to be there, but the expected near-perfect symmetry has taken kind of a beating. These not-quite-right areas of fractals often hold the most interesting and unexpected images. Today's image rates a 6, one point of which is due to its symmetry problems. The render time of 28 minutes is a bit slow, but may be avoided by downloading the finished image from the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> We had heat and humidity aplenty here at Fractal Central on Sunday. The temperature rose to 90F 32C, but there was no sign of the torrential rain and lightning storms that plagued the area yesterday. Thanks to the more settled weather, the fractal cats had an entire afternoon of relaxation in the holly patch. Today is starting hot and just a slight bit less humid. If no storms come up, the cats should have another acceptable day. For me it's work and fractals. The next FOTD will appear in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and beware of the pods. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= It_Laid_an_Egg { ; time=0:28:02.22--SF5 on a P200 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=-0.10785186997744410/-0.096510242252081\ 25/1.700881e+009/1/112.5/-6.46943647264475175e-008 params=2/-0.1/0.1/2.5/0/0 float=y maxiter=4200 inside=0 logmap=516 periodicity=10 colors=000EXWG__IccJghLklNopPstQvxRrwRovRkuRhtSdsS\ arSYrSVqTRpTOoTKnTHmTEmVFkWFiXFhYFfZFd_Fc`FaaG_bGZ\ cGXdGVeGUfGSgGQhGPjJTkMXFJ`IGXLDSO9OR6JT3FV7IXALZD\ N`GQbKTdNVfQYhT`jWbkVdkUflUhlTimTkmSmmSnnRpnQroQto\ PupPwpOypOzuTstXmt`gtdashWslQspKstFD5PJ6XP7dV8l`8t\ YFlVLeTRZQYSNcLLiEKgFJfFJeGIcGHbHHaHG_IGZIFYJEWJEV\ KDUKDTKERIFPGFNFGLDHJCHIAIG9JE7JC6KA4K93SA7_ABfBFn\ BJuBMnMJhXGbfD_dEXcEVbESaEQ_FNZFLYFIXFGVGDUGBTG8SG\ 6RGCSDHTAMU7RU5NU2IU5DU88UB3UDCUGLUITUKaRMiOOrLQzJ\ SezJatMYoPUiSRdVN_YJU`FPcCKeIJdNIcSIbXHbbGagG`lF_q\ F_skbjhobknwwmwwmwwmwwmzzisrSolXhc``VeULiMCnF3rQBo\ _ImiQjsXhnWiiWieVj`VjXUkSUkOUkVQj`MjgIjmEjsAjtEeuI\ avMXwPTuTPsWMq_JobGmeDkiAil7go4bgBZ_HUSOQLUVT___ed\ gkinqmuvfot_irTcpMZoFTm8Nk1Ij9MeHP`PTWXWSRaRLgQFmP\ 9sPRtMRuLFvF3w97xBByDEzFIzGMzIPzKTzLXzN_zPczRgzSjz\ UnzWqzX3z65zB7zF9zJBzNCzS } frm:MandelbrotMix4 {; 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, 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=========================================