Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's image is a scene in the Z^(1.99)+C Mandeloid.  At first glance, this parent fractal appears as an everyday Mandelbrot set.  But a bit of thought will reveal that something is wrong with it.  To begin, the main spike has been swallowed up, and an extra valley has appeared where the string of buds along the X-axis should lie.  This extra valley is filled with discontinuities, though it is not without fractal hope.  In fact, today's scene lies in this valley.

After a modicum of thought, and a consideration of a name such as 'Chrysanthemum', I named the image "Technicolor Midget".  Once the image is seen, the name will be self-explanatory.  The rating of a 7 is better than recent days, but still leaves something to be desired.

Most of the color was generated by the Fractint program with a stroke of the <enter> key.  I did tweak a few registers, but not enough to reward myself the standard half-point bonus.

Perhaps the best feature of the image is its fireball calculation time of 57 seconds.  An equally fast way to view the scene is to surf to the current FOTD web site at:

http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/jim_muths_fotd.html

where the image has been posted in finished form.

The original FOTD web site may be accessed at:

http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/

Lots of sun and a temperature of 48F +9C here at Fractal Central on Wednesday kept the fractal cats quite content.  In the human department, things went well enough also.  The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and be of sound constitution, but don't make too much noise while you're at it.

Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com


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