Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: 

Today's image was created by combining 0.5 part of Z^6 with Z^3 and adding straight C on each iteration.  The parent fractal is a large boomerang-shaped bay with X-axis symmetry, surrounded by countless smaller holes.  Today's scene lies near a hole just inland of the southwest shore line of the large bay.

Not surprisingly, the holes radiating from the central minibrot in today's image are shaped almost exactly like the nearby larger hole.  Most of the effect was achieved by rendering the scene with the outside set to 'tdis', which creates the terraced effect.

The name came about when I had the impression of an octopus with double the number of arms, which could only be called a "Hexadecapus".

The art rating of 7.5 reflects the coloring effort I put into the image, with less than ideal results.  The math rating of a 5 shows that nothing new and unexpected is revealed in today's FOTD.

The calculation time of only 35 seconds is quite fast.  Viewing the finished image on the web sites is equally fast.

More clouds than sun prevailed here at Fractal Central today.  With little wind, the temperature of 50F 10C felt comfortable enough, though the older fractal cat, Nicholas, would have preferred more sun on the shelf in the southwest window.  The fractal humans made it through the day with little happening that was worth remembering.

The next FOTD will grace the list in about 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and environmentalists want to fight global warming and at the same time eliminate dangerous nuclear power plants.  These are worthy goals, but despite the optimistic claims of the dreamers, clean renewable energy can supply only a tiny part of our energy demand.

This means that to achieve a cleaner safer environment, people will need to survive with much less energy.  I doubt that many would be willing or able to make the necessary sacrifices, such as getting rid of their motor vehicles, living without air-conditioning in warm humid climates, (Swamp coolers would work well enough most of the time in hot dry climates.), and eliminating the energy guzzling internet and mobile phone networks.

And, being people who care, we would also want to help the emerging nations raise their standards of living, which means we would need to supply them with the necessary energy.  The question is, with fossil and nuclear energy no longer available, and our own energy demand continuing to increase, where would the additional energy to help the underpriviliged but emerging nations come from?

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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