Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

As I hinted in the FOTD for May 11, there was no FOTD for May 12.  The reason is that on the 11th, FL and I went on an antiquing expedition up to Corning, New York, a city famous for its glass works.  FL found a very attractive rug to place under the cat table that was intended to be a lamp table, but we did not arrive back at FC until it was too late to do a FOTD.

Today's image rates an everyday 7.  It's not very outstanding, but the calculation time of a brief 36 seconds means that little effort will be needed to run the included parameter file and see just how 'everyday' the image is.

The parent fractal is an oversized Mandelbrot set with Z^11 corruption in its depths.  Today's image, with an order-11 minibrot at the center, is located on a filament of a larger order-11 minibrot on a filament of the period-5 star on the northwest shore line of the main bay of the parent M-set.

The brilliant gold pinpoints are a curiosity.  While there are 11 filaments radiating from the minibrot, which has 10 lobes, there are only 9 brilliant gold points surrounding the minibrot.

When rendered with a broad color palette, today's image consists of little more than radiating filaments.  With a narrow-banded palette, the image becomes a chaotic mess.  Today's palette, with its bands of intermediate width, strikes a reasonably pleasant compromise.

At this point, words can do no more to communicate the effect of the image.  The only way to fully appreciate it is to actually view it in its full if not totally overwhelming splendor.  This is where the web sites excel.

The day began sunny, but clouds moved in during the afternoon to keep the day from being perfect.  No one could complain about the temperature of 79F 26C however.  The fractal cats seemed unusually lively despite the lack of afternoon sun, chasing each other up and down the fractal hallway until Nicholas became exhausted and settled down for a nap, leaving Cassie to play alone with her tail.

The humans, still recovering from Saturday's long trip, spent the day taking it easy.  The next FOTD will be posted when the proper time arrives.  Until whenever, take care, and what would be more upsetting to dedicated hard-core rational-thinking skeptics who know that the paranormal does not exist -- the arrival of space aliens from Sirius-C, or a scientific proof of the reality of ghosts?

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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