Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

On Saturday, with the end of the backup rush here at FC in sight, FL was a victim of an uncontrollable urge to set out on an antiquing trip.  By the time we returned to FC, the sun was sinking beneath the western ridge, leaving me only a short time to come up with a worthy FOTD image.

Luckily, the Mandelbrot set has no end of worthy images, and it runs extremely fast on the 2000mhz fractal-dedicated machine.  I found today's worthy image hiding in the fourth valley out the main stem of the largest minibrot on the main stem of the parent Mandelbrot set.

The magnitude of the image is past the point of perfect resolution with conventional math.  But if anyone wishes to eliminate the nearly invisible (at 640x480 resolution) slight trace of jagginess, they may shift to arbitrary math and wait a half hour instead of 6 seconds to see the image.

The name "Quick Mandy Test" describes how I found the scene.  The rating of a 6 is what I think the image is worth.

About 2cm of rain fell here at Fractal Central Friday night.  It hardly erased the 25cm rainfall deficit for the year, but FL's flowers do appear a bit perkier.  The afternoon temperature reached 88F 31C, still very warm, but with the lower humidity, the day's weather felt much more comfortable than Friday's.  The fractal cats spent the day sleeping, but sprang to life when we returned around 8pm.

The next FOTD will be posted in about 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and save mankind.  Stop crying about the trouble the earth is in and face the real problem.  The earth will survive its infection of human viruses by developing a fever and killing them off.  It's the future of humanity we're really worried about, not the temperature of the third planet from a mediocre star.

Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com
jimmuth@aol.com


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