Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

With today's image we begin the climb out of the rut left by that herd of ponderous elephants.  The image lies rather deep in the Seahorse Valley area of yesterday's parent fractal, on the bud side of the northern branch.

I named the image "Seahorse Empire" because it it filled with miniature seahorses.  You will have to look hard to find them however.  They are not very obvious.  (I have never been as impressed with fractal seahorses as I am with fractal elephants.)

The rating of an 8 shows that I am rather satisfied with the image however, which is certainly more colorful if not as mathematically interesting as those elephant images of a week or so ago.

The chief fault of the image is its excessive calculation time of 12 minutes.  But here is where the FOTD web sites charge to save the day.

Heavy clouds moved in overnight here at Fractal Central, leading to a rain shower at daybreak.  The rain soon ended but the clouds remained for the rest of the day, holding the temperature to a slightly chilly 64F 18C.  The fractal cats seemed satisfied with the weather, and spent the day involved in more important things, such as chasing each other around the house and asking for more food.

The humans, being human, had more serious things to do, such as finishing the day's work, which they did on schedule.  The next FOTD will be posted soon.  No exact time is implied.  Until next time, take care, and on a recent 'science' show I heard of a theory that the universe might be shaped like a dodecahedron.  The announcer then took a soccer ball and said he was holding a dodecahedron, and it might be how the universe is shaped.  It's strange.  I thought the pattern on a soccer ball is a truncated icosahedron, a figure with 32 faces, (20 hexagons and 12 pentagons), and not a dodecahedron with only 12 pentagons as faces.  Are TV 'scientists' truly this ignorant of basic geometry?

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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