FOTD -- November 17, 2002 (Rating 5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: I have named today's image "The Bluest Atom". One glance at the image will reveal why the atom in the picture is the bluest. The atom is the midget at the center of the frame. Mandelbrot midgets are sometimes called atoms, as well as Minibrots. Actual atoms, the kind that the world is composed of, have no color. They are far too small. An object's color is determined by the wave length of the visible light that it reflects most strongly. But atoms do not reflect light at all. Light waves are far larger than an atom, and pass by it as though it were not there. A deeper question is whether the particles atoms are made of are there at all. One would assume something is there . . . but is it? . . . The parent of today's image appears as a large irregular Mandeloid bay, with a secondary Mandeloid off to the east. The East Valley of this secondary Mandeloid, which is actually on the north shore, is split down the middle by a cleft that is just starting to open. Today's scene is located in a spiral in a weed-choked cove near the shore of this cleft. The image is broken, much of it consisting of featureless black inside areas. I normally try to avoid such broken areas in my fractal searches, but sometimes these areas produce unexpectedly fine fractals. In today's image, the black areas actually add to the overall somber feeling of the scene. I have rated the image at an average 5. Its feeling of sadness holds it down. If the color palette had been cheerier, I might have rated the picture at a 6. The render time of 28 minutes is unreasonably long for such a gloomy image. To avoid impatience, the download from: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> or from: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> is recommended. It rained steadily all day Saturday here at Fractal Central, keeping the dynamic cats confined to the indoors, where they passed the day in a very un-dynamic fashion. The temperature of 47F 8C did not help at all. Luckily for me, I had stocked lots of tuna and turkey, which kept their bad moods under control. Today is starting just as rainy as yesterday, so I'll likely have to repeat the treats. As for myself, I'm bored with watching rain, yard work is impossible and driving is miserable. After I get a head start on this week's design work, I'll probably reduce myself to watching a game or two on TV and trying to keep the cats happy. The best part of the day will come later, when I shift into my fractal-hunting mode and bring one back alive. Until next time, which will arrive in 24 hours, take care, and are fractals alive or dead? Secondary question: can something that has never been alive be considered dead? Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ The_Bluest_Atom { ; time=0:28:16.59--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+1.60774155572676900/+0.024147533971025\ 96/1.570013e+008/1/-7.5/-1.46792394274675164e-007 params=-8.12/-1.8/-10.31/-8.1/0/525 float=y maxiter=3600 inside=0 logmap=512 periodicity=10 colors=00080R80R80S80S70T41T33V34W36X37X38Z2AZ2Ba2\ Cc2Ef2Fi1Hm1Io1Js1Lu1Mx1Nz3Mt5Ls7Lo9KkBKiDJfFJcHI`\ JIYLHWNHUPGSRGQTFOVFNTEPRERQETOEVNDXLDZKD`IDbHCdFC\ fEChCCjBCkEBlHAlK9mN9mQ8nT7nW6oY6o_5pa4pc3qe3qi7ql\ BqoEqmGolImkKljMjiOhhQgfSedUcbVb`W_ZWYXWVVWTTWQRXO\ PXLNXJLXGJXENXHQXJTXMWXOZXQaXTdXVgXYjX_mXahVXjQTeS\ V`UXWWZRY`M_aMYbMWcLVcLTdLSeLQfLOgKNgKLhKJiKIjKGkG\ ClKFkNIkRLkTLmUNkUOjUPiURhUSgUTfUUeUWcUXbUYaUZ`U`_\ UaZUbYUcXReYPgZMhZKj_Hk`Fm`CnaApb5te8qbBn_EkYHhVKe\ SMbQP_NSXKVUIYRF_PDYQGWRJVSMTTORURQVUOWXNXZLYaJ_dI\ agGciEelDgtBiwAjzChvEfwFdpHcoIbnKbmMbkNbjPaiQahSag\ TafWX`ZSVaNTcJVfEXi9_l3`k5ak6bj7cj8ciAdiBdhCehDeiF\ fjGfkHglHgmIhnJhoJipKiqKjrLksLltMmuNnvNowOpxOqyNrz\ MszLtzKuzKvzKwzKxzKyzKzzKzzKzzKzzKzzKzzKzzKzzKzzKz\ zKzzKzzKzzKzzKzzKzzKzzKzzKzzKzzKzzKzzKzzKzzKzzKzzK\ zzKzzKzzKzzKzzKzzKzzKzzKz } 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 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE==================================