Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Yesterday's image was a true-to-life antiminibrot.  Today's image is a negative minibrot, which is not quite true to life, since the negative effect was totally created by the coloring.  The minibrot itself is nothing more than an everyday run-of-the-mill minibrot given interest by rendering the entire scene with the outside set to 'tdis'.

The negative effect gives a rather ominous feeling to the image. I have occasionally seen this effect used in Japanese 'anime' cartoons.  The name "Negative Minibrot" is self explanatory.  The calculation time of 39 seconds is no error.  The parameter file really runs this fast.

The parent fractal came about when I combined 0.1 part of Z^10 with one part of Z^1.5 and added straight C.  This parent is a mis-shapen Mandelbrot set rotated about 180 degrees, with a large open area extending beyond its east (west) valley and a curled-up main stem.  Today's scene lies on a kind of figure-8 shaped hole on this curled stem.

The weather here at Fractal Central on Monday was almost perfect.  Only a too-warm temperature of 88F 31C kept it from being totally perfect.  The fractal cats spent the day relaxing, though at one point Nicholas ducked briefly under the bed when he thought we were getting out the cat-carrying box to take him to the doctor again.

My day was about average; FL is concerned about the unusually dry weather we have had so far this year, and the effect it is having on her garden, (and the farmers' crops also).  The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours.  Until next time, take care, and does anyone know how to get more water to fall from the sky?

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


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Negative_Minibrot  { ; time=0:00:39.66-SF5 on P4-2000
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  /1.259273e+011/1/-120/0 params=0.1/10/1/1.5/0/0/0/0
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frm:MandAutoCritInZ {; Jim Muth
a=real(p1), b=imag(p1), d=real(p2), f=imag(p2),
g=1/f, h=1/d, j=1/(f-b), z=(((-a*b*g*h)^j)+(p4)),
k=real(p3)+1, l=imag(p3)+100, c=fn1(pixel):
z=k*((a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f)))+c,
|z| < l }

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