Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's image takes us back to the 'Patterns in the Mist' image of October 20 -- two days ago.  In that discussion I commented that the image had minibrots, but they were not very interesting.  Since then, I have done further exploring and found that the minibrots are more interesting than I had assumed.

I decided that today's image, which shows a minibrot that was hidden in the earlier image, is worth being declared FOTD for October 22.  The color palette is basically the same as the one in the earlier image, with only a bit of tweaking to emphasize the hidden patterns.

Now, instead of two levels, we have three levels of near-random chaos.  The strongly colored highlights are seen to be gathered near the minibrot, with the outlying, more vague features suggesting elements of the actual Seahorse Valley location.

The rating of a 6 is all I could give today's image, which after all is basically a repeat of the earlier image.

The name "Unknown Landscape" is perhaps a bit overdone.  The scene does lie in the Seahorse Valley of its parent, so how surprising can it be that the vague patterns resemble the very familiar elements in Seahorse Valley?

The calculation time of 3-1/2 minutes is brief enough to make running the included parameter file worth the small effort.  The small hassle of setting up and running the parameter file may be avoided by viewing the finished image on the FOTD web site at:

       <http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/>

A brisk west wind, showers of leaves, a mixture of sun and clouds, and a temperature of 59F 15C made Thursday a typical mid-autumn day here at Fractal Central in central Pennsylvania.  The fractal cats were fascinated by the falling leaves, and spent several hours in their window, trying to decide what was happening outside.

My day was normal; FL's was the same.  The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and if everything is an illusion in the mind, as some mystics claim, in what then is the mind only an illusion?

Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com


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