FOTD -- July 04, 2003 (Rating 7) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's image takes us back to the number-one fractal, the Mandelbrot set, which still does and always will contain an infinity of undiscovered scenes. Today's scene is one of a midget located in a spiral in a valley of a bud lying quite deep in East Valley, in the area where the features are on the verge of becoming pinched off. This deep in East Valley the iteration count is quite high. The maxiter of today's image is 500,000, and almost every feature has a count above 10,000. With iteration counts such as today's the coloring often works best if the logmap feature is turned off. Doing so results unavoidably in areas of total chaos which I call sand, but it adds definition to those features that would otherwise be flat. Several outside coloring options give nearly identical results with today's scene. I chose the 'summ' option for no reason in particular. The 'fmod' and 'tdis' options were not considered, since they slow the render time to over an hour. The 'mathtolerance' statement is included in the parameter file so that the image will not flip into arbitrary precision math and take several hours to complete when it is rendered at a high resolution. I named the image "Lemon-Lime Country". I thought I saw enough lemon and lime colored areas in the picture to justify the name. I rated it at a 7 because it is always a pleasure to find interesting new scenes below the arbitrary math magnitude in the M-set. The render time in the 11-minute range can be avoided by downloading the finished image from one of the FOTD web sites: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> The light showers ended in early afternoon here at Fractal Cen- tral on Thursday. At 5pm the sun appeared, a little late, but better late than never. The temperature at the time was 77F 25C, which is near perfect for cats. Taking full advantage of the opportunity, the once-dynamic duo spent over an hour in the yard, which was not as much time as they would have preferred, but still enough to keep them happy. Today promises to be hot as a firecracker, and since it is Independence Day here in the USA, there will be a lot of firecrackers as well as other assorted fireworks going off. The duo does not like sudden loud noises, so they will probably be skittish. Check here tomorrow to see how they make out. Until then, take care, and are fractals a blast or not? Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Lemon-Lime_Country { ; time=0:11:20.81--SF5 on a p200 reset=2002 type=mandel passes=1 center-mag=+0.2531\ 3254012409130/-0.00035259026063394/5.075036e+011/1\ /-27.5/0.001974 mathtolerance=/1 params=0/0 float=y maxiter=500000 outside=summ inside=0 periodicity=10 colors=000tnJsmJslKslKskLrjLriMrhMrhMqgNqfNqeOqdOq\ dOmfXjgdjccj_bjWajS`jO_jKZjIYjHXjHWjIVkJUkKTlLSlLT\ mMVmNXnOZnO`oPboQdpRfqShqSjrTlrUnsVpsVrtWttXvuYxuY\ zrXvpWsmVokUlhThfTecSbaRZZQWXPSUOPSOMPNINMFKLBIK8G\ K5IM8JOAKQCLSEMUGNVIOXKPZMQ`ORbQSdSTeUUgWViYWk_Xmb\ iohrpmzorzorzorwommnhdmcehZgcUiZPjUKkPBjK5iF4fF3bG\ 3_G2WH1TI1PJ0MJ0OM6QPCSRIUUOVWUXZ_Zae`ckbfqchvbfub\ etadsacs`br`aq_`p__pZZoZYnYXmYWmOYhEZc4__ed_ggahkc\ jnekrgmuinxjkvlhumetobsp_rrXqsUpuRovOnwSoxWpx_qxcr\ xgrxksxotxsuxvuxsrwqpvonumltkjsihrgfqedpcboa_n_YmY\ WlWUkTSkRQjPOiNMhLKgJHfHFeFDdDBcB9b97a75`53_31_84`\ C7aHAaLDbQGbUJcYMcZNe_Of`PgaPiaQjbRkcSmdSneToeUqfV\ rgVshWuizzizwgznfzedyXcxPauO_sNZqMXoLWmKUkJTiIRfHQ\ dGObFN`ELZDKXCIVBHSAFQ9EO8CM7BK6AI5FI4KKGPKKSKOUKS\ WKWYK__IcaEecEgeFigGkiHmkIphPmjUilZencaphYrmUtrQvu\ MutIutGusGurHtqHtpItpItoJ } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================