FOTD -- April 05, 2010 (Rating 9.5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's rather somber image rates an extraordinary 9.5. I might have rated it at a 10 if I had done more work on it. As it is, most of the colors are not mine, but were created randomly by the Fractint program in glorious 256-color GIF format. I did tweak the colors just enough however to earn a half-point bonus. The parent fractal was created by subtracting straight Z from Z^2.5 and adding straight C. This parent resembles a Mandelbrot set with three buds instead of only one bud on its west side. Today's scene is located on the south edge of the valley separat- ing the north bud from the center bud. When I first checked this area, I almost gave up. I saw no chance at all of finding minibrots or anything else very interes- ting there, but by rendering the area with the outside set to 'fmod' I did find a minibrot, and as today's image shows, quite a good one at that. The area is so full of discontinuities that instead of breaking up the image, the discontinuities help create the image. The name "Resurrection Scene" was inspired not only by what is sup- posed to have happened on the first Easter, but by the image, which has become so broken up that it has returned to life in even better form. The calculation time of 2-1/2 minutes is far more reasonable than the times of some recent FOTD images. But as always, the finished image is posted on the FOTD web site at: <http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/> where it may be viewed instantly and without effort. Full sun and a temperature of 73F 23C made Easter Sunday a day to be remembered here at Fractal Central. The fractal cats enjoyed most of it, but would have been a bit happier with an extra treat or two of tuna. The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and mysteries abound on this day, the greatest of which is, "what species of rabbit lays eggs?" Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Resurrection_Scene { ; time=0:02:36.70-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=ident passes=1 center-mag=-0.1607468385993725/+0.1293682960522352\ /6788710/1/55/0 params=1/2.5/-1/1/0/0/0/0 float=y maxiter=1200 inside=0 logmap=154 periodicity=6 colors=000D7PE8PF9OGAOHBNICNJDMKEMLFLMGLNHKOIKPJJQ\ KIRLHSMGTNGUOFVPEWQDXRCYSCZUB_WA`Y9a_8ba8cc7de6egQ\ feQccP`aPX_OUYORWNOUNKSMHQMEOLBML8KLHISPHZXFedElbD\ i`Dg_CeYCcXBaVB_TAYSAWQ9UP9SN8QL8OK7MI7KG6FH7II8LI\ 9OJARKBUKCWLDZLEaMFdNGgNHiOIlPJoPKrQLuSGyQLwOPvMTu\ KYsIarGeqEipCnnArz8vz6zzAszEmzIgzMazQWuUQwYKyKEzKG\ vKIsKKoKMlQOhNQeLSaJUZGWVEYS6YQC_PH`OMaNRcMWdL`eKe\ fJjhIoiHtjGykGfr_yyrx`tsaonbkjcgedc`e__dVXeWVeWTeX\ ReXPeYNeYLeYJeZHeZFe_De_Be`9e`4db7e`AfZCfzDdzDbzD`\ zDZzEXzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzGECMIIRLOWPU`\ S_eVejZkoaqtdvlGchIddJdaKeYLeVMeRNfOPfKQgHRgDSgATh\ 6Uh3Vh8XiDYjH_kM`lQbmVcn_eocfphhqliqgfkcdf_baV`XRY\ SNWNIUIEUD8U7AU8BU8CU8DU8EU8FU8GU8HU8IU8JU8KU8LU8M\ U8NU8zU8zUAzUBzUDzUEzUDzUCzUBcZAbc9ac8ac7`h6_m5Zr4\ Zv3zz2zz1zz0zz3zz6zz9zzBzzErzHuzJIz0WzFizUvzhmzfez\ dXzbPz`GzZ8zX0zW0zV0zU0zT } 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=========================================