Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

The parent fractal of today's image is a Mandelbrot set rather heavily infested with Z^(1.5) energies.  The infestation has caused the main spike to be largely swallowed up into a higher dimension and the large minibrot to squeeze down into a kind of 'pac-man' shape.  Today's image is a Julia set of the blunt valley that serves as pac-man's throat.

I named the image "Shield of the Woods" because of the forest of trees that appears to surround the central shield.  The rating of an 8 includes a half point coloring bonus, which might or might not have been earned.

The tree-like features in today's image are quite common in the Julia sets of certain types of valleys in Mandeloids of fractional values.  For a brief time I considered subtracting a point from the rating because of the familiarity of these fractal trees, but then I decided the image was attractive enough to honestly rate the 8.

There is no debate however about the calculation time.  At a brief 40 seconds, the time will pass before impatience can even be thought about.

An early morning shower ended by 9am but left heavy clouds overhead for the rest of the day.  The clouds held the temperature to a chilly 70F 21C and depressed the fractal cats, who slept through a good part of the day, taking a break only to explore the latest arrangement of their cubes.

The humans had a typical day, except for a minor squabble over a negative political ad.  The next FOTD will be posted soon; nothing more definite is promised.  Until whenever, take care, and I'm still waiting for the candidates to explain why they should be elected instead of why the other guys should not.

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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  q=u*cg*sd+v*(ca*cb*cd-ca*sb*sg*sd),
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