FOTD -- December 12, 2007 (Rating 8.5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: I rated today's scene in the December parent fractal at an 8.5. I gave it this rating because I like it. It has a freshness that rekindles my enthusiasm for the parent, which was starting to become boring. No more do we see the endless display of terminal rings that have adorned so many of the previous images for December. In their place we see . . . well, I'm not sure what we have. I guess it's up to the individual fractalist to decide what today's image holds. The scene is located on the eastern side of the parent, in about as unlikely a place as is ever checked. I named the image "A Raspy Assemblage" because of the raspy texture of the elements along the edge. The wedge-shaped bluish background sections of the image consist of inside stuff made visible with the bof61 inside fill. The shredded arms in the foreground are outside stuff rendered with the outside set to imag. The little over 3 minutes it takes to run the included parameter file will pass in a flash once the image starts to take shape. And if running a parameter file is too much trouble, the image is, or soon will be available for viewing on the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> Another miserable day's weather passed unappreciated here at Fractal Central on Tuesday. When the cold morning drizzle became a steady afternoon rain, and the temperature quit at 36F 2C, the fractal cats rolled over, took a quick glance, and went back to sleep. Cats don't like cloudy chilly days. My day was busy enough to prevent boredom. Tomorrow is likely to be the same. The next FOTD will appear in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and if the mind is in the brain, and the brain is a sense-created image in the mind, how do we get off this wheel of circular reasoning without arbitrarily assuming that physical material is the ultimate reality? Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= A_Raspy_Assemblage { ; time=0:03:06.91-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+5.63047998949/+10.0389614258/131879/1/\ 25/0 params=-2.475/-1.05/-0.275/-5.5/0/-78/0/0 float=y maxiter=1950 inside=bof61 outside=imag periodicity=10 colors=030b_m`_m`_mY_mWXmWXmUXmSXmS\ XmQVmQVmOVmLVmLVmJSmGSmGSmESmESmGXmJ_mJamLemLgmOjk\ QnbQpVSsMSxDUz4Uz0JxAAsQ2nb2jm2em2fr2_m2_m2_mA_mJX\ mQXmYXmgXmoVmsVmsVmsVmsSmsSksSisSgsVksVmsXmsXms_ms\ _msamsamsdmsdmsemsemsgmsgmsjmsjmslmslmsgmmdmg_m`Vm\ UQm20WGHkJKgJMbLMZLOVLQSOQOOSKQVFQVAQX8S_4S_0Ua0Ud\ 0Ud0We0Wg0Yg0Yj0Yj0bl0gl0kn0mn0qp0sp0ss0ss4su8suDs\ xIsxMszQszSsuQspOshMpbMnXKkRIgLFfKFeJDdIAcH8bG8aF6\ `E4`D2WC2SB0OA1J92L87G7CE6IA5N54R23X25a27f29j2Bn2H\ r2Kr2Mr2Qr2Sr2Vr2Xr8KrQ7qg3ps3ks3fs3as3Xs3Ss3Os3Ks\ 3Fs3Ds38s34s30s30s30s30s30s30s30s70sE0sM0sS0s_0se0\ sl0ss2sz2sz4sz6sz8sz8szAszAszDszDszFszFszFszIszIsz\ KszKszKszQszXszaszgszk2Km2Qm2Xm2dm2jm2pm2sm2sm2sm2\ um5umCukJxeQxaWxVbxQhzKozFsz8sz4sz0sz0sz0sz0szAszK\ szVszbszmszmszmszmmziGzF2z02z02x08s0Gn0Qj0We0da0mV\ 0sQ0sM0sH0sB0s70s30s30sQ0sp0gz0gamdamb_m } frm:MandAutoCritInZ {; 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)+(p4)), 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=========================================