FOTD -- September 20, 2012 (Rating 6) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: We have another rush in progress here at Fractal Central today. And when time is lacking, the quality of the image sometimes suffers. The name of today's image, "Busy Busier Busiest", explains the lowly rating of a modest 6 points. The image las a lot of color action, that's for sure, but like so many current movies, it has too much action and not enough plot. Even the addition of the 'tdis' rendering fails to bring life to the moribund image. The only thing worth noting in the image is the central minibrot, shaped suspiciously like a peanut. The formula behind the scene is Z^(1.7)+C, which I iterated 69 levels up the hyperladder with the 'ident' function applied. This mixture creates a parent fractal that somehow reminds me of a mermaid. A very prominent cut-off minibrot lies south of the main body, with today's image located in a valley of this minibrot. The too-long calculation time of 7 minutes merely adds to the disappointment. But at least with this time aspect, relief may be found on the FOTD web sites. View the completed image online at: <http://www.crosscanpuzzles.com/Archives.html> A high-definition rendering is at: <http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/jim_muths_fotd.html> The back FOTD's are at: <http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/> After the early morning fog cleared off here at Fractal Central today, the rest of the day was near ideal, with mostly sunny skies and a temperature of 70F 21C. The fractal cats enjoyed the outside conditions from the inside, but when an unwanted cat wandered by, the dynamic duo leaped to the window and growled their warnings at the intruder. Except for a slightly heated lunch time exchange of opinions about politics and culture, the humans had a quiet day. The next FOTD will be posted in due time. Until whenever, take care, and if only one of the thousands of claims about alien abduction is true, then aliens from space actually are visiting earth. Jim Muth jimmuth@earthlink.net START PARAMETER FILE======================================= BusyBusierBusiest { ; time=0:07:00.00 SF5 at 2000MHZ reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm formulaname=MandelbrotBC3 function=ident passes=1 center-mag=+0.5231137961416107/-1.34126660456844/\ 1.53e+008/1/125/0 params=1.7/0/69/0 float=y maxiter=12000 inside=0 outside=tdis periodicity=6 colors=000_ldakbbkadk`fkZgkYikXmmZjkWhiUegRceP`cNZ\ aKW_IUYFRWDQX8PVBOUDNTFMRILQKKPMJNPIMRHLTGJWFIYEH_\ DFbCEdCDfEFcGGaIH_KIXMJVOKTQMQSNOUOMWPJYQH_RFlJH`S\ DP`ADh7Fi9HzBJzDKzFMzHOzIQzKRzMTjOVjQXkRYkT_kVakXc\ kZac2dk__eeVgnW`kXUiYOgZHec5d`8cZBcXDcUGbSJbQLbNOa\ LRaDOXGR_JTaLWcOYeR`gTbiWekZgn`jpclrfothqvktxmvzmt\ xzrzzzzzzzzzzfzodznzKlzdjzKiz`gzKezsozhiZYdaNZdCUf\ 2Pg9OgGOgNNgTNh_MhfMhmLkwKhsLepLblL_iMXeMUbMRZMOWN\ LSNIPNAD9DIGGMNJRUMV_P_fScm_jwVgsRdoNakJ_hFXdBU`7S\ Y9SXASXBSXCSWDSWESWFSWGSVHSVISVJSUKSULSUQMWMSUIYSE\ bQAhO5kOmlN6mNmnN7nNmoN8pN8pMmqMmrMmrMAsMmtM9wJmtM\ ArPBpRBnUClWCjZDh`DfcEdeEbhBdhDbiE`jFZkHXlIVmJTnLR\ oMPpSRuPPsNOqLMpJLnHJmFIkCGiAFh8Df6Ce4Ac29b9TZFkWF\ lVFlVFmUFmUGnTGnTGoSGoSGpRGpRMeLSWGYMAcC5aD8`DB_EE\ ZEHYFKWFMVGPUGSTGVSHYQH_PIbOauObtOcsPerPfqPgpPhoQj\ nQkmQllQmlSljUliVlhXlfZle } 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=========================================