Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

We get back on the track with a fractal that rates a solid 8-1/2.  The parent fractal was created when I combined a whopping 100200 parts of Z^(200) with a comparatively measly 10.02 parts of Z^(0.07) before adding (C) on each iteration.  (Who would ever suppose that a mere 10 parts of an insignificant Z^(0.07) added to a monumental 100200 parts of a mighty Z^(200) would make such a significant difference.  But then again, exponents can be deceiving.)

This parent is a circular thing filled with arcs and crescents, with a small heart-shaped open area on the X-axis at its eastern extremity.  Today's scene lies on a filament extending from a Mandelbrot bud on the eastern edge of this open area.

Why did I choose such strange quantities of the exponents of Z?  I did it because I thought it was fun.  How could one be expected to find strange fractals is he does not use strange parameters?  I'm not sure how 'strange' today's image might be considered, but it was impressive enough, at least in my opinion, to be granted a rating of an honorable 8-1/2, one-half point of which is a reward for my coloring.

I named the image "Boogie-Woogie Time" because something in it reminds me of the 8/4 beat of that 'real' music.

The calculation time of 1-1/4 minutes will keep the hearts of the fractal fans of earth leaping with joy.  Those who would rather not have a leaping heart may avoid the cardiologist by visiting one of the many FOTD on-line web sites.

The weather today was in a word, wet.  The rain that fell overnight Wednesday slacked off around midday today, but the mist and fog that remained failed to change the impression of a rainy day.  The temperature of 46F +8C was too chilly for total cat comfort.  After a few minutes, the fractal cats agreed that the day was miserable and showed their displeasure by sulking out of sight.  The humans were too busy indoors to be annoyed by the rain outside.

The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and when we finally develop indestructible android bodies to transfer our minds into, thereby making us immortal, exactly what will we transfer.  Since each of us is a unique stream of self-awareness, and in the infinite multiverse, an infinite number of unique awarenesses are possible, the amount of data needed to define and encode our individualities for transfer would be infinite also, requiring not only an android brain with infinite storage capacity, but an infinite amount of time to fill it with the data.  As I see it, this ends the hope of achieving technological immortality through artificial android bodies.  Deep freezing our worn-out biological bodies has even less chance of success, so . . . . sorry guys, if you would like to be immortal, you had better hope ghosts are real.  (I'll not even speculate on what would happen if someone were copied into several android bodies.)

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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