Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

With FL out of action, it was another hectic day for me here at FC.  The double work load left no time to search through a new parent fractal, so I returned to the immense minibrot basin of the two most recent images, where I found today's image.

Today's image, with its magnitude of 2(10^87) is a back-out from yesterday's googol-deep minibrot.  It actually lies about twice as far from the central minibrot as the image of two days ago, Jan 25, which lies in the same basin.  I named the image "Backing Out", for obvious reasons.

Since the image is the third consecutive one in the same minibrot basin, I could not honestly rate it.  Actually however, it's a rather pleasant image of slightly questionable character, and well worth a look.

Since the scene is of a notably lesser magnitude, the calculation time has been cut to a more reasonable 22 minutes, though this is still quite slow by FOTD standards.  To speed up the satisfaction, I suggest viewing the finished image on the active FOTD web site at:

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

But give Hal a bit of time to calculate and post it.

The old original FOTD web site may be found at:

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

The last time I checked, it was not up to date, but that was almost 2 weeks ago, and something might have happened since then.

Heavy clouds hung over Fractal Central all day Wednesday, with snow flurries in the morning and steadier snow in the afternoon.  The temperature of exactly freezing kept the fractal cats confined to their warm shelf.

My day was quite busy.  With FL down with the bug, it was up to me to do the work of the two of us and keep the hot chicken soup handy.  Luckily, I knew the fractal was there before I ever saw it.  The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and be thankful that fractals exist.

Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com


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