Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:  

Today's image has some very unlikely parameters, which is a sign that I was led to the parent fractal by the Fractint evolver feature.  But regardless of where the image came from, it still rates an 8, which has been the standard for the past several days.

The parent combines 2.475 negative parts of Z^(-1.05) with 0.275 negative parts of Z^(-5.5) then adds (1/C) on each iteration.  This parent is a huge Mandeloid with a circular main bay edged by several large buds and a series of rings.  Today's scene lies in a filament leading to a degenerate ring on the eastern edge of the large circular bay.

The rating of an 8 is perhaps a bit more than the image deserves, but then again, perhaps I'm a bit too humble.  The name "Busy Body" refers to the clutter of detail filling the frame.

The calculation time of 12 minutes is slow.  It's at times like this that the web sites come in handy however.

The weather was near perfect all day today here at Fractal Central.  The fractal cat enjoyed it, as did the fractal humans.  The next FOTD will be posted well before the world disintegrates into a de-sitter soup.  Until whenever, take care, and maybe I'm a Boltzmann brain inside a larger Boltzmann brain, and it's Boltzmann brains all the way up.  BTW, when will these fascinating hypothetical creatures be mentioned on one of the pop-science TV shows?

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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frm:MandAutoCritInZ {; Jim Muth
a=real(p1), b=imag(p1), d=real(p2), f=imag(p2),
g=1/f, h=1/d, j=1/(f-b), z=(((-a*b*g*h)^j)+(p4)),
k=real(p3)+1, l=imag(p3)+100, c=fn1(pixel):
z=k*((a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f)))+c,
|z| < l }

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