Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: 

Today's image is one of the fieriest of all time.  And for good reason.  The generating expression adds 666 parts of Z^(666) to (1/Z) before adding straight C on each iteration, and we know what happens to those who dabble with the number 666.  They become ensnared by the beast and then spend all eternity with him in the fiery pit down below, which I hear is hotter than a nuclear furnace.  Today's image gives us just a glimpse of that pit.  (Good gosh, I hope I don't end up down there!)

The name "Four Alarm Minibrot" refers to the fires in the fiery furnace.  I have no idea if a minibrot might lie in the midst of the actual inferno, but I do see one at the center of today's image.

The image's artistic rating of an 8 reflects the extra effort expended creating the effect of a nuclear fiery pit.  The math rating of a modest 6 indicates that nothing very unusual is going on in the math aspect of the image.

The calculation time of a mere 30 seconds will pass virtually un-noticed.  But the annoyance of setting up and runnind a DOS parameter file may be eliminated by checking the image on one of the web sites.

The first official day of summer brought typical summer weather to Fractal Central.  The temperature reached a moderately hot 84F 29C under a hazy sun.  The fractal cat wanted the cool air turned on, but we humans are putting it off as long as possible. A lot of the winter chill is still trapped in the heavy brick walls of FC.

The next FOTD will be posted within a reasonable time, which is most often but not always 24 hours.  Until whenever, take care, and the world certainly has changed since I was a kid, but I have yet to decide if the change is for the better or worse.

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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FourAlarm_Minibrot { ; time=0:00:30.00 SF5 at 2000MHZ
  reset=2000 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm
  formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=ident float=y
  center-mag=-0.18405946781423/+0.12052312284457\
  /8.71e+008/1/-117/0 params=1/-1/666/666/0/0/0/0
  maxiter=2500 inside=0 logmap=77 periodicity=10
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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 }

END PARAMETER FILE=========================================