Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's image is a study of the textures in the area of chaos at the top of the asteroid minibrot in yesterday's FOTD image.  I named today's image "Outlandish Textures" because the fractured features filling it are some of the more incredible I have stumbled upon in my years of investigating the Mandeloids with exponents of Z between unity and 2.

The rating of a 6 seems about right.  A minibrot in the scene might have added a point or so to the rating.  Actually, there probably are minibrots lurking in the scene or at least nearby, though I'm not going to search at this time.

The calculation time of just under 5 minutes is somewhat slow.  But time may be saved by viewing the finished image on the FOTD web site at:

       <http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/>

Heavy clouds and occasional rain put a damper on activity here at Fractal Central on Wednesday.  The temperature of 59F 15C helped keep things suppressed.  The unpleasant weather outside didn't worry the fractal cats however.  They had a very active morning chasing each other all around FC.  When their fun was over, they spent the afternoon sleeping.

My day was average.  FL's day was the same.  The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and I suppose a thing is real when I see it with my own eyes, that is unless it is something disapproved by the high priests of science, such as a ghost.  Then it's merely a hallucination, which, depending on how one sees it, may or may not be considered a real thing.

Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com


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