Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's image is a blow-up of a tiny hole in the upper right part of the 'infinite ocean' image of October 10.  Out of curiosity I checked to see what the hole was about, and to my surprise found the fog shrouded midget car being driven quite recklessly by the driver whose head is clearly visible through the mist.  As soon as I saw the driver and his car, I knew the name of the image must be "Reckless Driving".

Actually the mini car is a Z^sqrt(2)+C minibrot that exists in its full form in the Mandelbrot aspect of the East Valley of the parent fractal, which resembles nothing quite as much as a kidney bean.  The holes in the fog obscuring the mis-shapen car and driver are basically Julia sets of what lies under them.

Since the entire image is kind of a joke, and the calculation time is a cumbersome 34-1/4 minutes, I gave it no rating.

Today's weather left much to be desired here at Fractal Central.  Heavy clouds and occasional rain spoiled every outdoor activity, not that any were planned, while the temperature of 57F 14C kept the fractal cats in cold weather mode.

The local humans, FL and I, spent the day doing what needed to be done, and did it without powdermilk biscuits.  If all goes according to plan, the next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours.  If not, who knows?  Until whenever, take care, and if we took the money from the top one-percent of wealthiest people in the US and distributed it equally among the rest, how much would each person receive?  (Poverty cannot be significantly reduced by making the wealthy people poor.)

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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  b=pi*imag(p1*0.0055555555555556),
  g=pi*real(p2*0.0055555555555556),
  d=pi*imag(p2*0.0055555555555556),
  ca=cos(a), cb=cos(b), sb=sin(b), cg=cos(g),
  sg=sin(g), cd=cos(d), sd=sin(d),
  p=u*cg*cd-v*(ca*sb*sg*cd+ca*cb*sd),
  q=u*cg*sd+v*(ca*cb*cd-ca*sb*sg*sd),
  r=u*sg+v*ca*sb*cg, s=v*sin(a), esc=imag(p5)+9
  c=p+flip(q)+p3, z=r+flip(s)+p4:
  z=z^(real(p5))+c
  |z|< esc }

END PARAMETER FILE=========================================