Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's image shows a rather spectacular anti-minibrot.  Since everything is backwards in anti-minibrots, which are anti-bifurcated hills rather than basins, I named the image "Walking Backwards".

On its surface the parent fractal is an everyday Mandelbrot set, but a huge enigma lies in its depths.  Today's scene has a magnitude of over 3*(10^11), which lies well beyond the depth where the strangeness begins.  Like most anti-minibrot scenes, today's is located in a bit of leftover debris in the interior of a minibrot caught in the act of morphing from quadratic to some higher order, which in today's case is order-9.  The morphing minibrot in turn lies in a patch of chaos on the northeast shore line of the parent M-set, well around into East Valley.

A good part of the image's impact is due to the coloring.  I have been putting more effort into the FOTD coloring recently.  Hopefully, it shows.  In today's case my effort earned an extra half-point to bring the final rating to 8-1/2.

Friday turned out unexpectedly pleasant here at Fractal Central.  The temperature of 84F 29C was unexpectedly low, while the lower humidity added its part.  The kodachrome blue sky and puffy white clouds simply added to the unexpected treat.  The fractal cats were unconcerned with the weather.  They were more concerned with the fractal basement, where we suspect some animal, most likely a neighborhood stray cat, has found its way inside.

Otherwise all was in proper order on Friday.  The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and how can teleportation possibly work when atoms have no definite location?

Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com
jimmuth@aol.com


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frm:FinDivBrot-2   { ; Jim Muth
z=(0,0), c=pixel, a=-(real(p1)-2),
esc=(real(p2)+16), b=imag(p1):
z=(b)*(z*z*fn1(z^(a)+b))+c
|z| < esc }

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