Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: 

Today's image mixes together various portions of Z^2, Z^3, Z^4, and Z^5.  This combination produces a Julibrot with a major critical value of zero and a minor critical value of -2.499...  The major critical value produces the parent fractal of today's image -- a Mandeloid with two large wings sprouting from its East Valley.  The minor critical value produces a small remote Mandelbrot set lying well west of the default screen, with little of interest in it.

Today's image consists of both inside and outside stuff.  The greenish outside stuff was rendered with the outside option set to 'tdis'.  The inside stuff is colored a lumpy purple, and was rendered with the inside set to 'fmod'.

I named the image "Strange Goings-On".  My reason was that all fractals certainly are strange.  Due to my extra coloring efforts, the art value rates an 8.  The math rating remains a 6.

The calculation time of 4 minutes is rather slow.  Checking the finished images on the web sites is recommended.

Lots of clouds with a chilly temperature of 48F +9C made today feel more like November than October here at Fractal Central.  The fractal cats, who are still getting to know each other, gave no attention to the outside conditions.  The fractal humans did what needed to be done, while keeping an eye on the cats.

The next FOTD will be posted soon.  Check back in 24 hours to see if 'soon' means 'the next day'.  Until next time, take care, and 125 years ago we thought we had discovered all there was to be discovered in the field of physics.  What happened since then?

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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d=real(p2), f=imag(p2), g=real(p3), h=imag(p3),
j=real(p4), k=imag(p4), l=imag(p5)+100:
z=(a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f))+(g*(z^h))+(j*(z^k))+c,
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