FOTD -- October 18, 2007 (Rating 8) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Yesterday's image showed part of the pattern surrounding an infinitesimal minibrot in the East Valley area of the large minibrot at -1.75 on the negative X-axis of the Mandelbrot set. Today's image takes us all the way down to this tiny minibrot. The depth of today's scene is truly amazing. At the scale of today's image, yesterday's scene would be enlarged to many times the size of the solar system, while at the scale of yesterday's image the entire Mandelbrot set would also be enlarged to many times the size of the solar system. I have not done the cal- culation, but I suppose that at the scale of today's image, the entire Mandelbrot set would occupy a significant part of the visible universe. I named the image "The Minibrot Revealed". Since the name says it all, no further explanation is necessary. The minibrot is actually quite an impressive one, revealing as it does the tendency of all minibrots at such a magnitude to be surrounded by a large number of concentric, circular, but well ornamented rings. The image is well worth the rating of an 8 that I bestowed on it. The drawback is the extreme slowness of the image, which takes almost 2 hours to complete on the fractal fireball and would take around 10 hours on the old cold snowball. But salvation is at hand in the form of the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> where the image will shortly be posted, if it is not already posted. Only a bit too much haze and a few too many clouds kept Wednes- day from being absolutely perfect here at Fractal Central. The high temperature of 75F 24C was certainly perfect enough. The fractal cats must have agreed, for they spent most of the day watching the pigeons roosting and cooing on the roof of the house next door. I might say my day was almost perfect also, but before I could make such a claim, I would have to know just what an absolutely perfect day would be like. So far, I have never had a day when nothing at all went wrong, so I guess I'll be satisfied saying my day Wednesday was rather good. The next FOTD will appear in 24 hours give or take a few. Until then, take care, and be at peace with the powers that be. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= TheMinibrotReveald { ; time=1:52:37.82-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=mandel passes=1 center-mag=-1.7465\ 2317861165630378879937150792993485941/0/\ 2.106321e+037 params=0/0 float=y maxiter=50000 bailout=4 inside=0 symmetry=xaxis periodicity=10 colors=000zzzxxzwvztuwqstnpqkkmhhhacdZ_XXZUUYRQXQN\ VNLULISIGRGDQDAOCDQDGREIRELSGMSGPUHRVHUVIXXIYXJ`YJ\ cYLeZMh_Mi_NlaNnaPqbPtdQvdQxeRzeRzfTzfTvhPliLciHUj\ DLz9Cz52z10m00i11e44a56Z79V9CRCGQ6EOJDOPCOXANb9Ne7\ Ni6Nn9MqCKtEJwHIzJIzMHzNFzQEzTDzWDzYBz`Azc9zd9zeAz\ eBxgDwgEtgEshFphHniIliIkiJhkKgkMdkMclN`lOZmQXmQWmR\ TnSRnUPqVMnUNlUPiUPgUQdSQaSRZSRXSTWSTTRUQRWNRWLRXI\ QXGQYDQYAQZ9QZ9NZAKZAIZAE`AB`C9`C6aC3aC1aD0cD0cD0c\ 00Y60`D0cJ0dQ0gX0ic0ki0mp0pw0qz0tz0vz0tz6tzEtzNtzU\ sLHUNHTPIRRIRUIQXIPYIP`INcIMzB0zcMzHPYFRWETTDWQBYN\ AZL9aI7dG6eD5h43cA5iH6pN7wU9zZ9zaDzdHvgKniOilScnXX\ q_QtdLmiHhnDct9aq7an7`l7`i7Zf7Zd7Za7YZ7YX7XU7XR7WO\ 7WM7WJ7UH7UE7RB7Q97N67M37L27P6CR9GUBJXEMZHQ`JUaMYc\ Q`dSdeVhgYlh_nibskewlhzzRCzSEzSGzSHzUIzUJzULwVMvVN\ tVPsXQqXRpXTzUenXUdZJTa9Id0Le0Mf0Nf0Qh0Rh0Ti1Uj1Xj\ 1Yl1Zl1am1zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================