Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:  

Today's image continues the theme of yesterday's, with a shift upward to an exponent of (-6.01).  Since the image is so close to being a repeat, I could not give it an equally high rating, but the rating of 8-1/2 that I did give it is not to be sneezed at.

I named the image "Wise Butterflies".  I can give no logical reason for such a name.  It is simply a phrase that popped into my mind when I shut off my thinking for a few minutes as I studied the image.

The calculation time of 12 seconds seems unreal.  But that's the time it took for the image to finish on the now ancient 2000mhz unit.  It will take longer than this to set up and run the included parameter file.

A mix of sun and clouds prevailed here at Fractal Central today, while the temperature of freezing made it feel quite seasonal.  The fractal cat spent the afternoon on the shelf in the southwest window while the sun was out, and near the heat when the sun was obscured.  The semi-fractal humans had a back-to-work day, which was notably un-exciting.

I hear that some people were disappointed when the world did not end on December 21.  As for myself, I could not have been disappointed, because I was virtually certain that nothing would happen on doomsday.  All predictions of doomsday through all of history have had one thing in common -- they have been wrong.  And I saw no reason to expect the latest 'Mayan' doomsday to be any different.  IMO, our whole culture is the doomsday scene.

I am pretty much a skeptic about most of the strange and unusual things we are given on TV as likely fact.  This includes alien spacecraft visiting earth, alien abductions, bigfoots wandering our forests, lake and other monsters, Bermuda triangles, assorted conspiracy theories, and most other things that make no sense.  But this does not mean I am a totally boring rational thinker.  I do believe in ghosts and invisible 'spirit' worlds, which puts me right up there among the irrational kooks.

The next FOTD will be posted soon.  Until that earth-shattering moment arrives, take care, and don't give up all hope of doomsday destruction.  The media moguls ordaining the public mood will soon invent another looming doomsday for us to worry about.

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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frm:SliceJulibrot4   {; draws all slices of Julibrot
  pix=pixel, u=real(pix), v=imag(pix),
  a=pi*real(p1*0.0055555555555556),
  b=pi*imag(p1*0.0055555555555556),
  g=pi*real(p2*0.0055555555555556),
  d=pi*imag(p2*0.0055555555555556),
  ca=cos(a), cb=cos(b), sb=sin(b), cg=cos(g),
  sg=sin(g), cd=cos(d), sd=sin(d),
  p=u*cg*cd-v*(ca*sb*sg*cd+ca*cb*sd),
  q=u*cg*sd+v*(ca*cb*cd-ca*sb*sg*sd),
  r=u*sg+v*ca*sb*cg, s=v*sin(a), esc=imag(p5)+9
  c=p+flip(q)+p3, z=r+flip(s)+p4:
  z=z^(real(p5))+c
  |z|< esc }

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