Fractal visionaries:

The other day I stumbled upon these two ponderous and playful pink pachyderms parading peacefully past my screen.  Papa pachyderm on the left is keeping a watchful eye on baby pachyderm playing on the right.

These are not your usual East valley elephants.  These jumbos live in the East Valley area sure enough, but this picture views them from a different angle, in this case 4 degrees from the XW plane.  As can be seen, the elephant patterns hold their shape surprisingly well this close to the XW plane, in fact they are visible through an entire 360 degree rotation.

The scattered debris floating above papa elephant appears to be parts of a third elephant that never came together.  Perhaps it exists in a nearby plane, but I haven't looked.

The elefants.gif file is posted to a.b.p.f. and a.f.p., where hopefully it will be available for all who wish to pick it up.  Tomorrow's fractal will be something peaceful -- a fractal to meditate by.

Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com


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; p3 = point of rotation and parallel planes
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