Fractal visionaries:

Last evening I dreamed I was holding in my hand a four-dimensional hypercube, actually feeling the impossible shape of the thing.  Then I woke up and found that I had fallen asleep while playing with a Rubik's cube.  Too bad that after I awoke I couldn't recall how the hypercube had appeared.

Today's fancy little fractal image is named "Foliage".  I named it because it reminds me of a scene viewed through a break in the foliage of some unimaginably exotic distant land.  Actually it's the fractal that results when the formula Z^(-Z^(Z+2)) is iterated.

Raising Z to powers of Z usually results in fractured fractals too chaotic to be of much interest.  But sometimes quite interesting images result, as demonstrated by today's fractal.

Today's finished image, a rather large file, has been posted to alt.binaries.pictures.fractals and alt.fractals.pictures.  I can't understand why so many are having trouble retrieving the images from those Usenet groups.  I checked earlier today and found that every image I had posted over the past two weeks was still available there, through both my Mindspring and AOL ISP's.  I suspect that because of the size of the files and the number of porno postings some news servers don't carry the binary groups.  I think Deja News cancels binary postings.

Tomorrow, unless I turn up a really great fractal somewhere else, I'll return to the julibrot.  There's no end of surprises to be had simply by getting a new perspective on an old object.

Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com


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