Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's image once again takes us rather deep into the Mandelbrot set.  I use the qualifier 'rather' because a magnitude of only 8*(10^19), such as today's, can hardly be considered deep by current standards.

The scene is located in the Seahorse Valley area of a minibrot on a filament extending from the northwest shore line of the second bud out the main spike of the Mandelbrot set -- the bud just beyond Scepter Valley.

The rating of a 9 is an honest one that includes a hefty bonus for the extra effort I put into finding the colors.  The rating was also helped by the unusually chaotic yet well-defined 'shield' surrounding the nearly invisible minibrot at the center.  The name "Shield of Chaos" refers to this feature.

Since the image is of relatively modest magnitude, the calculation time is a relatively reasonable 12 minutes, a span of time that few but the most impatient fractalists will miss.

Partly cloudy skies with a muggy high temperature of 88F 31C made for a lazy day today here at Fractal Central.  The laziness was briefly interrupted in the afternoon by a drenching thunder-shower, but within 1/2 hour the sun was again shining and the laziness returned.  The fractal cats, in keeping with the spirit of the day, passed the time being lazy.  At one point, Cassie tried to get fresh with Nico, but the big guy has better sense than to get involved in such activity on such a lazy day.

The humans did mostly nothing, which is what they are best at, though FL was still recovering from Saturday's wet kayak trip down the river.  The next FOTD, another scene deep in the Mandelbrot set, will be posted in 24 hours.  Another rating of a 9 is not guaranteed however.  Until then, take care, and if you believe that the five physical senses give a true and total picture of reality, then use your common sense and become a materialistic, scientific rationalist.  (Whatever one of them is!)

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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