Fractal visionaries:

For some reason I'm feeling a bit down this evening.  It's become one of those days when I look at my fractal creations and ask myself, "why am I wasting my time on this stuff? -- it's all nothing more than a grown up form of coloring books and crayons."

When I get this way, I think, "no matter how many fractals I find, I'll always have seen only zero percent of all possible fractals."  And then I think of some new trick to write into a formula and try out.  And then I'm back at my computer watching another image flow onto the screen.  And then I know why I work with fractals.  The answer is simple -- I do it because it's fun.

Today's fractal is another midget -- this time a midget of the third order.  I didn't give it much coloring effort, so the coloring can probably be improved.  I named it "cubed" because Z-cubed is a major part of the formula.  It was built with my Test15 formula, which is turning into quite a productive one.  For convenience, the image is posted as always to a.b.p.f. and a.f.p.

I have a real winner fractal lined up for tomorrow, so keep posted.

Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com


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frm:Test15 {; Jim Muth
z=pixel, a=real(p1), b=imag(p1), c=real(p2),
d=imag(p2), k=real(p3), f=imag(p3), g=f*(pixel):
z=((a*(z^b))+(c*(z^d)))^k+g,
|z| <= 100 }

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