August 14, 2011: Sparking Elephants | Aug. 13 | Aug. 15 | 2011 | FOTD Home |
Fractal
visionaries
and enthusiasts:
With today's FOTD image we return to the theme of the month -- the land
deep within the Mandelbrot set. We check a minibrot that lies
in
the East Valley of a larger minibrot that in turn lies just beyond the
main spike of the still larger minibrot at -1.417 on the main spike of
the Mandelbrot set.
The image rates a lofty 9, one point of which is due to the
coloring. At first I considered adding more colors to the
image,
but the more I looked at it, the more pleased I became with the subdued
blue theme.
The name "Sparking Elephants" is a play on the word 'spiking', which
might not be a word at all. The spikes are evident throughout
the
image, pointing straight away from the barely visible minibrot at the
center. And the image does have a kind of electric atmosphere
about it.
The calculation time of 52 minutes is slow enough to make viewing the
image on the FOTD web site the better choice.
Sunday left a lot to be desired here at Fractal Central.
Heavy
clouds kept a blanket over the area all day, while intermittent rain
killed all hopes of a pleasant day. The fractal cats showed
their
fractal nature by being in two places at once. But since
there
are two fractal cats, this is not much of a paradox.
The humans found enough indoor stuff that needed doing to prevent
boredom from setting in. I killed one hour counting the
scientific errors in one of those pop-science shows on one of the
supposedly 'educational' channels. The next FOTD will be
posted
in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and Atheists should be
more
specific in describing what they *DO* believe about the origin of the
universe. When they claim that 'it all just happened by
meaningless cosmic accident', they are not answering the question, they
are expressing their ignorance, which leaves them open to attack from
believers who feel they 'know' where the universe came from.
Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net
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