Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:  

To create today's image, I combined 10 negative parts of Z^(-1.6) with 2 negative parts of Z^(-3.7) and added (1/C) on each iteration.  When the calculation was finished, I found myself with a parent fractal that was little more than a large irregular open hole with Mandelbrot features along its southern boundary and a large cloverleaf object floating inside its northern part.  I found today's scene when I checked the eastern edge of the obviously Mandelbrot stuff on the southern boundary of the large irregular hole.

The name "Nothing Much" describes what I found there.  But 'nothing much' implies a little something, and a little something is what we find in today's image, which is perhaps most notable for its well-divided areas that are unusually flat.  Actually, these flat areas would have been nearly totally flat if I had not used the 'tdis' outside option when rendering the scene.

As it is, the image rates a nominal 7, good enough to be worth the 2-1/4 minutes required to calculate it.  Curiously, I think this is the first image in which I have used a negative maxiter with the 'tdis' outside.

A cloudy day with a temperature of 41F +5C ended with a burst of wet snow at nightfall.  The snow never amounted to more than an inch (2cm) however, and by midnight, had ended.  The fractal cat had an average day for an indoor cat.  (Indoor cats live far less exciting but far safer lives than the stray and feral cats that roam the area.)  The humans had an average human day.

The next FOTD will be posted in approximately 36 hours.  Until then, take care, and I hear that our schools now need far more computers and internet access in the classrooms if they hope to do an adequate job of teaching students.  But if this is so, how, in primitive classrooms without computers, did we learn enough to develop the present day computers that have now become so necessary?

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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