Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:  

Today's image is named "Grozny", a russian word that describes Ivan the Terrible.  The exact meaning of the word is somewhere between 'terrible' and 'awesome', kind of how God will appear to Christians when they come face-to-face with Him on judgement day.  The name is exaggerated, but it's what came to mind this afternoon when I shut down my thinking.  The image does rate an 8-1/2 however, mostly because of its striking coloring.

The scene of the action lies in the detail on the 'east' side of the large minibrot on the west branch of the stem extending from the large bud on the north side of the main bay of the parent fractal, which is a Mandelbrot set corrupted in its depths by cubic energies.

Now that the description is out of the way, I might add that the image is really a rather pleasant one, well worth the mere 35 seconds required to calculate it on S.O.T.A. computers that are not over-educated.  Those whose computers are over-educated and have forgotten how to do DOS, can view the image on one of the FOTD web sites.

Heavy clouds, dense fog and a temperature of 41F +5C made today easily forgettable here at Fractal Central.  The fractal watch cat spent the morning watching for trouble and the afternoon by the heat, recovering.  The humans spent the day doing routine things too boring to report.

The next FOTD will be found in a few hours and posted most likely in about 24 hours.  Until whenever, take care, and since both the political left and right know what is best for the country, and there can be only one thing that is best, why can't they get together and do it?

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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frm:FinDivBrot-2   { ; Jim Muth
z=(0,0), c=pixel, a=-(real(p1)-2),
esc=(real(p2)+16), b=imag(p1):
z=(b)*(z*z*fn1(z^(a)+b))+c
|z| < esc }

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