Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's rather delicate image is a Julia set of the Seahorse Valley area of a Mandelbrot set halfway transformed into a quintic Mandeloid.  The outer shape is an expected Julia set of Seahorse Valley, but the delicate lace-like network filling the outer shape is a result of the quintic corruption, which is quite strong at this point in the Mandelbrot aspect of the Julibrot.

The rating of an 8 is largely due to the unusually serene grayish-blue colors, which were specially chosen by myself to create the serenity.  The name "Tinseltown Toyland" is what came to mind when I switched off my brain, a frequent occurrence.  It has little to do with the actual image.

Because of its magnitude of an everyday 1 and its modest maxiter of 256, the image calculates in a fireball fast 20 seconds.

Today was another unpleasant one here at Fractal Central.  There were too many clouds, occasional sprinkles, and a temperature that never got above 54F 12C.  The fractal cats expressed their disappointment by sulking for a while, then curled up to sleep.

With too much other stuff to do, the humans had no time to worry about the unpleasant weather.  The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and who is really running things on earth?

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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