Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Due to a power failure at FC on Wednesday, today's image is a slow one that only the stout-hearted will care to calculate.  With the electric power out all morning and the work backed up all afternoon, I had no time to do a fractal search.  But I did have a spare fractal in readiness.  After I posted yesterday's FOTD, I checked the object at the center of that image.  Since the resulting fractal took over an hour to finish, I did not intend it to be an FOTD, but the fates determined that the fractal should indeed be today's FOTD.

The object at the center of today's image exists in a perturbed Mandelbrot plane.  I leave it to the viewer to decide what kind of a thing it is.

Since the image was never intended to be a FOTD, I could not rate it.

The name "Weird Julibrot Set" fairly describes the image.

The calculation time of over one hour on my 2000mhz machine will separate the fractal professionals from the fractal amateurs.  The pros will run the included parameter file and wait it out.  The amateurs will shrug and say, "I'm not really that interested in the image."

If Paul is feeling well enough, both pros and tyros may find time relief on the FOTD web site at:

      http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/

where the finished image could be posted.

Wednesday began with steady rain and a temperature of 63F 17C here at Fractal Central.  Around 10am a fierce squall arrived with torrential rain and winds of 55mph 88kph.  When the excitement ended, the lights were out, the fractal basement had taken on water and the temperature was down to 39F +4C.

Most of the rest of the day was spent waiting for the lights to come back on and getting the work caught up, while the fractal cats wondered what all the excitement was about.  The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and how can the belief in karma be true if we live on earth only once?

Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com


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