Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's image lies in a filament extending from a valley on the east edge of its parent fractal, which is an inverted one -- a grossly oversized, near circular island surrounded by an infinite ocean rather than a lake or bay surrounded by an infinite continent.

I named the image "Incomprehensibility", a word that is not too difficult to spell as long as one knows when to stop spelling.  (One of the letter 'i's did not fit in the formula-name space.)  At one time there was a reasonable reason for the name, but I long ago forgot the reason.

The rating of an 8 seems about right for the image, with its brilliant yellow-orangish features and radiating zig-zag green filaments surrounded by a deep purple background.  I could not give myself a bonus since the Fractint program did most of the coloring work.

The calculation time of 2-3/4 minutes is a little slow, but enthusiasm will build once the rough image fills the screen.

Near total sunshine prevailed here at Fractal Central today.  The temperature started at 30F -2C and reached a high of 46F +8C.  The outside conditions felt rather chilly all day, but the fractal cats, who spent most of the afternoon in the sun on their shelf, were quite satisfied.

The humans made it through the day with nothing happening to make the day memorable.  In other words, it was an all-right day.  The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and when will someone prove that the world is real and not simply a very stable illusion that follows the rules of logic we invented to make sense of things?  Right now, all we can do is assume physical reality is truly real and blithely continue doing our materialistic science.

Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com
jimmuth@aol.com


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