Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's image is named "Broken Elephants" after the fragmentary elephants scattered around the typical minibrot at the center, the most obvious of which lies at the top center of the image.

The parent fractal, (and the image as well), came about when I combined some Z^(3.1) with some Z^(2.7) and added straight C on each iteration.  At first glance this parent resembles nothing more than a perturbed mandelbrot set, but despite the surface appearance, it holds intact minibrots.  One of these minibrots appears in today's image.  The scene lies in a larger fragmented elephant in the East Valley area of the parent fractal.

The rating of a 7 is routine, since I put too little effort into the image to raise it to a higher level.

The calculation time of one minute will pass swiftly, though visiting the web sites will eliminate the task of calculation.

Today brought a mix of sun and clouds and a temperature of 46F +8C to Fractal Central, which exists as a separate entity only in the imagination.  The fractal cats, who most certainly do exist in physical reality, spent an hour waiting for more sun, then retired to the artificial heat.  The humans, FL and I, spent the day working, finding fractals, and discussing the meaning of it all.  The next FOTD image will be posted in 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and if there is no higher meaning to life, why do so many intelligent people expend so much energy searching for it?

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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