Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Yesterday's image is part of a Julia set.  Today's image shows the same scene sliced at a slightly different angle, so it is not a pure Julia set.  The angular difference amounts to a mere -0.02,+0.02 degrees of arc, but what a change this tiny offset produces.

Instead of a shield surrounded by a ring of trees, we have some kind of blobby creature from deep in an unpleasant pit, which is probably bubbling as it releases foul underground vapors.  A few remnants of yesterday's trees are still visible around the edges of the creature, but the intact ring of trees is gone.

I named the image as I saw it -- "Creature from the Pit".

The rating of an 8.5 does not imply that I prefer bubbling pits or blobs to lush forests.  It merely states that I consider today's image to be a small improvement over yesterday's.  And I did work on yesterday's colors.

The calculation time of 50 seconds will pass in a flash, though the duration of fractal flashes is quite vague, and can vary from the infinitesimal duration of some sub-atomic resonance particles to the duration of the energy flash of the 'big-bang', which is still detectable even after 13.7-billion years.

Luckily, all this flashiness may be avoided by viewing the image on the web sites.

Today, like yesterday, began with a brief rain shower that left clouds to spoil the rest of the morning.  But unlike yesterday, the sun broke through at midday, leading to a muggy afternoon with a temperature of 82F 28C.

The fractal cats paid little attention to the weather as they went about their daily routine of sleeping, playing, and asking for food.  Meanwhile, the humans went about their everyday work routine without sleeping or playing.

The next FOTD will appear whenever it does.  Twenty-four hours is the best bet.  Until whenever, take care, and even with a billion people carrying cell-phone cameras, I'm still waiting for someone to take a clear photograph of an alien space ship.

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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