Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:  

Today's image with its lightning-like filaments reflects the weather today here at Fractal Central.  The formula causing all the bad weather on the screen takes 1.5 parts of Z^(-1.1) and combines it with 0.3 part of Z^(-7.4) before adding (1/C) on each iteration.

The resulting parent fractal is a hugely oversized thing resembling an upside-down figure eight, with today's scene lying on the filament extending east from the east branch of the valley separating the two large lobes of the parent.

The name "Sinuous Discharge" refers to the image's sinuous outer curves as well as the electrical effect of the brilliant inner curves.  The rating of an 8 is getting to be a habit, a habit that I hope continues.

The calculation time of 1-1/3 minutes is appropriate for the image, neither too fast nor too slow.  But a chore remains -- the chore of setting up this e-mail as a parameter file and running it.  Thankfully, this is when the web sites are there for the rescue.

The weather took a turn for the worse here at Fractal Central today, as a series of severe thunder-storms moved in during the morning and dropped 3.15 inches, 8cm, of rain by noon.  During the storm an apartment building was struck by lightning and set afire.  The temperature hung around 61F 16C most all day.  Luckily, the fractal sump pump did its job and we had nothing worse than a couple puddles on the basement floor.  The fractal cat, who doesn't like thunder, became uneasy until the noise stopped.

The next FOTD will be posted in a reasonable time.  Until reason prevails, take care, and presidential assassins are buried in the U.S. with no fuss; the Oklahoma City bomber, who killed well over one-hundred, was buried in the U.S. with no fuss; the Newtown school shooter, who killed 20 children was buried in the U.S. without a fuss.  Why then is there so much silly fuss finding a place to bury the Boston bomber, who killed only four people?  If we claim it is because he used a weapon of 'mass destruction', then shouldn't the automatic gun used by the Newtown shooter and the bomb used by the Oklahoma City bomber also be considered weapons of mass destruction?

IMO, everyone, even those we consider the most evil, deserves a proper burial!  God will deal with the evil-doer.

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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