Fractal visionaries:

I've already unloaded my frustration, so let's get to today's fractal.  I named it "Sinister" because it has a sinister aura about it.  When I look at the twisted, tortured shapes and tendrils in this image, I fancy myself at the mouth of a dragon's cave on some far away forgotten world.

The scene is part of the Z^3 mandeloid, sliced in a direction almost but not exactly in the YZ direction.  The ever-present horizontal bands of high-iteration chaos stand out in front of the deep violet alien sky, as the very ground twists and swirls and tears itself apart in response to unimaginable forces.

Hold it!

I seem to be getting carried away here.  The picture is a bit unusual, but it's not *that* unusual.  I'm posting it because it illustrates the riches that lie in the virtually unexplored XZ, YZ, XW, and YW planes of the Mandeloid family.  Tomorrow, I'll post six different versions of the prominent midget on the left stem of the north bud of the Mandelbrot set, each version sliced in a different direction.  And then I'll forcibly tear myself away from the odd planes and return to fractals in the best plane of all -- the XY plane.

For those who wish to view today's sinister image without tying up their computers, it has been posted to a.b.p.f. and a.f.p.  And by tomorrow, I'll hopefully be out of the low-level funk I've worked myself into.

Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com


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