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Fractal
visionaries
and enthusiasts:
Today's image rates an 8-1/2 followed by a question mark.
This
means I feel it must have something worth 8-1/2 points somewhere in it,
but I just can't put my finger on any aspect of the image that might be
worth a rating of an 8, plus the usual extra half-point for the
coloring.
To begin, the image is exceedingly slow, taking over four hours to
calculate, but this is how it goes with such deep images that require
arbitrary precision math.
The scene is also too chaotic, with too many large areas of fractal
'sand'. This is why I named it "Sandy Stretches".
The sand
cannot be escaped. When I tried the 'logmap' feature, both
plus
and minus values, it got rid of the sand, but left only a near
featureless expanse of flat colors.
The entire image is also oriented in the wrong direction. The
central minibrot points southeast instead of west, which is the
'normal' orientation. With the minibrot being so small
however,
this is of little consequence. I could easily have corrected
the
wrong orientation, but decided not to tie up the machine for another
four hours.
The scene is located in the radical of a tiny bud on the northwest
shore line of the large period-3 bud on the north side of the
Mandelbrot set. (In fractals, a radical is all the elements,
such
as the filaments, spirals and chaotic areas, associated with a
particular bud.)
As I mentioned above, the image is exceedingly slow, so the only
practical way to view it is in finished form on the web site.
The day began with heavy thunder-storms here at Fractal
Central.
The rain ended by 10am, but clouds and occasional showers hung on for
the rest of the day, holding the temperature to a rather pleasant but
soggy 79F 26C. The fractal cats ignored the outside
conditions as
they chased each other up and down the hallway, pausing occasionally to
ask for food.
The humans, who are never quite sure exactly what it means to be human,
had a typical up-and-down day. The next FOTD will be posted
in 24
hours. Until then, take care, and if you come across any
stray
Boltzmann brains, report them to the proper authorities.
(Those
Boltzmann brains are a hoot! The joke is that no high priest
of
cosmological science knows how to assure us that they are not floating
around out there in empty deSitter space along with everything else
imaginable and unimaginable.)
Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net
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