Fractal visionaries:

Today's fractal is another of those strange ones involving imaginary exponents but lacking the usual break along the negative x-axis.  When I first saw it, I thought of the vestments worn by priests of the Eastern Orthodox religion -- thus the name "ceremony".

It's a quick 1-minute one, which I have posted to a.b.p.f. and a.f.p. for convenience.

Now I must comment on yesterday's letter.  After viewing Kees' fractal web page and re-reading my letter, I feel I was too harsh on the really deep fractals.  Perhaps I was negative because I am hampered and frustrated in my deep exploration by an annoyingly slow old warhorse of a computer that is badly in need of a trip to pasture.  Actually, I have explored very little except the negative tail of the Z^2+C set, so I'm really not able to make a fair judgment of what lies deeply buried elsewhere.  When I get my new computer up and running later this year, I'll do some real exploration and be able to make an honest report

For tomorrow's fractal, I think I'll stay with the Mytest series of formulas.  They always give something unexpected and interesting.

Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com


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