Things were rather disorganized here at FC on Monday, as we
shifted things to different machines. For some reason, the new
fractal machine will not connect to mindspring, which explains
why I am sending this through my AOL address. The problems are
being solved one at a time however, and within a day or two, we
should be up and running on the same old schedule. But another
big change is not far off. I am putting the fractal dedicated
unit on a DSL line, most likely with a new URL address.

As for today's fractal, I doubt that it's worth a rating. The
image is a simple minibrot in a valley of one of the Z^(1.7)+C
parent fractals. I named it "Crabby Calculation", which rather
describes my mood after fighting with disobedient computers all
day. The image, for all its worth, fails to earn a rating, but
with its calculation time of 2-1/2 minutes, not much will be
lost if the image fails to satisfy.

With a temperature of 84F 29C and reasonable humidity, Monday
was fairly pleasant here at Fractal Central. Too many clouds
kept it from being an outstanding day however. The next FOTD
will be posted in 24 hours. Hopefully, by then I'll be back in
the familiar fractal routine. But if no image appears, it will
be a sign that we ran into more computer problems.

Crabby_Calculation { ; time=0:02:34.77-SF5 on P4-2000
reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm
formulaname=MandelbrotBC3 function=floor
center-mag=-0.058531449501/+0.648142658462/2264403
params=1.7/0/19/0 float=y maxiter=7500 inside=0
logmap=206 periodicity=6
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frm:MandelbrotBC3   { ; by several Fractint users
e=p1, a=imag(p2)+100
p=real(p2)+PI
q=2*PI*fn1(p/(2*PI))
r=real(p2)+PI-q
Z=C=Pixel:
    Z=log(Z)
    IF(imag(Z)>r)
      Z=Z+flip(2*PI)
    ENDIF
    Z=exp(e*(Z+flip(q)))+C
|Z|<a }