FOTD -- June 09, 2002 (Rating 4) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: As I have stated several times in the past, I do not do fractal transformations or layers. The reason is not that I feel something is wrong with doing these things, but that I enjoy discovering the basic fractal shapes rather than doing artistic things with my discoveries. My fractals are indeed discoveries rather than works of art. On rare occasions however, my artistic impulse has gotten the better of me, and I have dabbled in fractal transformations. Today's simple 3-D transformation of a type=plasma image is a result of some Fractint dabbling I did about 9 years ago. The image, which I found while gathering old images for the upcoming FOTD CD, is basically 9 years old. I did nothing but a slight adjustment of the colors to produce today's FOTD image. As is the case with so many of my old images, many of which were created by programs other than Fractint, today's image has no saved parameters that can be used to reconstruct the image, making it necessary to download the image itself from either Paul's web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> or from Scott's site at: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> I named the image "Ice-World". The reason is obvious. It takes no imagination to see a jagged icy scene on perhaps the water ice planet Europa, a moon of Jupiter. Since the image is a transformation, and I'm not supposed to do transformations, I could rate it no higher than a 4, the highest rating that is still below average. The fractal weather Saturday here at Fractal Central was close to perfect. The blue skies, sharp shafts of sunlight through the trees, light winds, low humidity, and a temperature of 77F 25C could hardly be exceeded. The fractal cats, who enjoy perfection, were nearly perfectly happy in the yard all day, even forgetting for a while that they were hungry. When the sun sank low in the west, and the chill of evening set in, they finally thought of food, and cried to be fed. Since it looks like another near perfect day coming up today, I'm going to try to join the cats and be as close to perfectly happy as possible. To keep my mind occupied, I'll start reading Hawking's newest book, "The Universe in a Nutshell", which I picked up last week. Of course, I'll probably never reach the ideal of absolute perfection in happiness, but I'll enjoy myself trying to come as close as possible. Until next time and next FOTD, which will appear on June 12, take care, and don't lose your cool when you see the ice. Finally, do not despair. The FOTD will return to its daily schedule in only a few months. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com NO PARAMETER FILE AVAILABLE