Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

I gave today's image no rating because I found it in haste.  The parent fractal is a Mandelbrot set rotated 180 degrees, so that its spike points east and its normally 'east' valley is on its west side.

A large ring lies just beyond 'east' valley, while an even larger ring lies at the terminal of the spike.  Today's scene is located very near the point where the spike terminates in the large ring.

I named the image "Floating Jellyfish".  It reminds me of a day long ago, when I stumbled unknowing into a mass of sea-nettles in the Severn River near Annapolis and found why these stinging jellyfish are considered nuisances.

The calculation time will pass in what seems 2-3/4 minutes, which just happens to be the actual time.  Visiting one of the web sites will eliminate all such apparent but non-paradoxes.

Blue skies, puffy white clouds and a temperature of 40F +5C made today quite acceptable for February here at Fractal Central.  The sun was interrupted a bit too often for the fractal cats, but they spent several hours on their window shelf anyway.  FL and I, fully recovered from yesterday's antiquing expedition down to Hanover, had a satisfactorily quiet day.  The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours.  And that's almost a promise.  Until next time, take care, and why do we keep finding things beyond the scope of human understanding?

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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