Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: 

Today's image is named "Ten to Doomsday".  As everyone who watches TV knows, the world will end on December 21, 2001, ten days from today, on Friday of next week at 23:60:00 hours GMT, the single moment when the day of doom will prevail over the entire earth!  In recognition of the coming end, I am beginning the countdown to destruction today and presenting ten doomsday fractals, the first of which appears as today's FOTD.

I gave the image no rating.  After all, what is the use of rating an image that will be swallowed up and forgotten in the mists of history in just ten days.  For those who still care, the image is a scene in the area of the period-5 bud on the southwest shore line of the main bay of the Mandelbrot set.  It looks nothing at all like a Mandelbrot bud because it is sliced at an unimaginable angle in four-dimensional space.  To see the Mandelbrot bud in its true form, simply change the p1 and p2 parameters to 0,0 and recalculate the scene.

The prominent vertical pillars are what I call bridges.  They appear only in the odd planes of the Julibrot, and indicate that no matter where the points begin their wanderings, they will eventually settle into the same orbits.

The calculation time of 1-1/4 minutes is mercifully brief.  With so little time remaining to enjoy life, we would not want to waste a single precious minute.

Yesterday's rain ended early this morning after dropping about 1/2 inch or 1-1/2cm of rain.  A mix of left-over clouds and sun with a temperature of 45F +7C made today feel like a typical mid-December day here at Fractal Central.  The humans and cats had a typical day also.

The next FOTD will be posted in the proper time, whenever that is.  Until the next FOTD appears, take care, and don't be fooled into believing that those so-called 'reality' shows flooding the TV channels are actually real.

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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  b=pi*imag(p1*0.0055555555555556),
  g=pi*real(p2*0.0055555555555556),
  d=pi*imag(p2*0.0055555555555556),
  ca=cos(a), cb=cos(b), sb=sin(b), cg=cos(g),
  sg=sin(g), cd=cos(d), sd=sin(d),
  p=u*cg*cd-v*(ca*sb*sg*cd+ca*cb*sd),
  q=u*cg*sd+v*(ca*cb*cd-ca*sb*sg*sd),
  r=u*sg+v*ca*sb*cg, s=v*sin(a), esc=imag(p5)+9
  c=p+flip(q)+p3, z=r+flip(s)+p4:
  z=z^(real(p5))+c
  |z|< esc }

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