Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Things were rather disorganized here at FC on Monday, as we shifted things to different machines.  For some reason, the new fractal machine will not connect to mindspring, which explains why I am sending this through my AOL address.  The problems are being solved one at a time however, and within a day or two, we should be up and running on the same old schedule.  But another big change is not far off.  I am putting the fractal dedicated unit on a DSL line, most likely with a new URL address.

As for today's fractal, I doubt that it's worth a rating.  The image is a simple minibrot in a valley of one of the Z^(1.7)+C parent fractals.  I named it "Crabby Calculation", which rather describes my mood after fighting with disobedient computers all day.  The image, for all its worth, fails to earn a rating, but with its calculation time of 2-1/2 minutes, not much will be lost if the image fails to satisfy.

With a temperature of 84F 29C and reasonable humidity, Monday was fairly pleasant here at Fractal Central.  Too many clouds kept it from being an outstanding day however.  The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours.  Hopefully, by then I'll be back in the familiar fractal routine.  But if no image appears, it will be a sign that we ran into more computer problems.

P.S. The fractal cats had a sulky day.  They didn't like all the disorganization.

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


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