Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:  

I'm currently pretty disgusted with the political situation in the U.S. at the present time, with both sides, apparently manipulated by the flood of obviously biased media propaganda, unable to see the forest for the trees and behaving, as planned by their manipulating overlords, like angry little 5-year-olds.

I'll have much, much more to say on this sorry situation in the near future, that is if I decide to avoid the political forums, continue the FOTD and don't get the boot for too many off-topic comments.

Today's image reminded of an ocean scene, so I named it "View of a Distant Sea".  The ocean view is seen through a Julia-like hole in an Oblate (real(z),imag(c)) set of the (-Z)^(sqrt(2))+C Julibrot.

The art and math both rate a near-average 7.  The calculation time of 3-1/4 minutes borders on slowness, so don't hesitate to save time by going to the FOTD web sites.

Wet slushy snow fell all day here at Fractal Central.  The large sloppy flakes fascinated the newest fractal cat, Lida, who spent a good part of the day at the window, watching her first snow and wondering what those white things falling from the sky were. The humans, with no holiday trips planned, had little trouble with the weather, but also realized that the sidewalk would eventually need to be cleaned.  I'll think about it tomorrow.

Who knows when the next fractal will be posted?  'The Shadow' might, but I don't see him in the area at this time.  Until whenever, take care, and don't look here for the usual pseudo-clever closing remark.

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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  b=pi*imag(p1*0.0055555555555556),
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  sg=sin(g), cd=cos(d), sd=sin(d),
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  z=(-z)^(real(p5))+c
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