Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's image rates a 7-1/2, including a whopping 1-1/2 point bonus for the coloring.  Those who doubt that the colors are 90-percent of the image's worth are invited to try to find better colors using only the random Fractint coloring feature.

The parent fractal is a hopeless looking thing that appeared when I combined 10.8 negative parts of (1/Z) with 5.4 parts of Z^(-3).  This parent fractal resembles a space capsule lying on its side, filled with a string of flat blobs.  A few tiny areas of interest lie along this string however, and today's scene lies in one of these areas.

The name "Several Holes in One" has little to do with the image other than the coincidence that the image is filled with holes.

The bad news is that the image is a slow one, taking almost 6 minutes to finish on the average machine.  Luckily, the web sites can make things easier.

After a night of rain showers, today turned out rather pleasant here at Fractal Central, with a mix of clouds and sun, lower humidity, and a high temperautre of 84F 29C.  The fractal cats paid little attention to the outside weather, spending the day instead playing with the five collapsible cat cubes we now have arranged on the living room floor.  Since there are twelve possible face-to-face arrangements of five cubes, with all cubes flat on the floor, the cats have just begun to explore the cube possibilities.

The humans had an average day.  FL is waging a minor war with the bugs attacking her garden, but otherwise, things are quiet.  The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and all scientific technology, regardless of how advanced, will ultimately fail.

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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