Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: 

Today's image lies in the depths of its Mandelbrot set parent, which is corrupted in its mid-depths by Z^5 energies.  The exact location lies deep in an anti-East Valley (West Valley with East Valley characteristics) in a small, obscure minibrot on the main spike of the parent.  This minibrot has been caught about halfway through the process of morphing from quadratic to quintic.

The much smaller minibrot at the center of today's image has already completed the transition from quadratic to quintic nature, but its quadratic tendencies still show strongly in the shape of the surrounding pattern, which obviously reflects the Mandelbrot shape.  The whole thing makes a strange animal indeed, which is what I named the image.

The artistic value of an 8 reflects the extra effort I put into the coloring.  After all, without good coloring, a fractal is little more than a screen filled with meaningless chaos.  The math value of a 7 shows the unlikeliness of quintic and quadratic elements appearing in the same fractal.

The calculation time of 1-1/2 minutes is fast enough to eliminate any significant waste of time and effort in rendering the image.  But the task of running a parameter file still remains.  This task may be eliminated by visiting one of the FOTD web sites.

Heavy clouds, a morning shower and an afternoon temperature of 75F 24C left a depressing pall over the Fractal Central area today.  The fractal cat, never one to be seriously depressed, stretched on the floor, then took comfort under his favorite chair cover.  The humans made it through another day, with the most memorable thing being the FOTD fractal.

The next fractal will be posted as soon as I find one worth posting, (my standards are becoming higher), and find the time to write something about it.  Until whenever that might be, take care, and watch for the first signs of the impending collapse of our western culture.

Am I serious?  That's for me to know and the readers to guess.

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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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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