Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's spectacularly colored image lies in a bright little 'pimple' on the northeast shore line of the 'No Discontinuities' minibrot of two days ago.  The pimple is actually what I unofficially call an area of antibifurcation.  I checked this area because such features often hold unusual and interesting minibrots of all orders.

When I saw the brilliant colors from a distance, I named the image "Outrageous Colors".  Surprisingly, the colors are almost totally a production of the under-rated Fractint program, which is probably the last DOS program still in somewhat widespread use . . . Well, maybe not quite.  I still use WordPerfect5.1 for DOS to do my writing.

The rating of an outstanding 9 includes a full two points for the coloring, even though my own share of the coloring effort is worth only 1/2 point or so.  I normally do not prefer such intense colors, so the 9 rating actually understates the colors.

I will make no effort to describe the image, which must be seen to be appreciated.  All I can convey in words is to say that the image shows an ordinary, everyday cubic minibrot, surrounded by the expected cubic 3,9,27... series of elements, all of it decorated in the most spectacular array of colors yet to be applied to a cubic minibrot.

The calculation time of 2 minutes may seem slow while only the top blue-gray inch or so of the image appears on the screen, but the calculation will seem to speed up drastically when the vivid red body of the pattern around the minibrot comes into view.

Spring-like conditions continued here at Fractal Central today.  The skies were cloudy most of the time but the temperature reached a very pleasant 68F 20C, which brought satisfaction to the hearts of the fractal cats.

FL and I made it through the day without notable incident.  We are finding less to disagree on while watching the lunch-time nonsense that passes as news, though we still get a bit testy at times.  The cats, always on the extreme political right, want what they want, and show their displeasure if they don't get it right away.  The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and what will we do if we run out of things to worry about?

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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