Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:  

When I was in the 5th grade, Sister Frances asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I told her I wanted to be a scientist.  At that time I pictured a scientist as a man in a white coat working feverishly in his laboratory, on the verge of a great discovery, surrounded by bottles and tubes filled with strange chemicals, with a lot of electric equipment, especially a Jacob's Ladder, humming (wastefully) in the background.  When sister then asked me what kind of scientist, I replied 'just a plain scientist'.  Things sure were simpler around the middle of the 20th Century, when fractals were not yet even dreamed of.

In today's more complex world, filled with fractals, I find my enthusiasm for generic 'science' woefully lacking, but that does not deter me from my interest in fractals.  The image for today lies in the parent that comes about when the expression Z^(1.9)+C is iterated 5 levels up the hyperspiral.  This parent resembles a Mandeloid rotated 180 degrees.  Curiously, instead of its period-2 bud being swallowed along the negative X-axis, it has two prominent period-2 buds, one on the northeast side of the large bay, the other partially cut off on the east side.  Today's scene lies in the northwest branch of the 'seahorse' type valley enclosing the northeast bud.

The name "Scientific Wonder" is ironic.  It refers to the disillusionment with science that I have developed over the years.  The ratings of the art and math are everyday average, since I can see little in the image to get worked up about.

The calculation time however is unusually fast.  One minute is all that is needed to finish the job on one of today's SOTA units able to run DOS.  Those with DOS challenged machines may find their satisfaction on the FOTD web sites.

Morning clouds gave way to a sunny afternoon with a temperature of 68F 20C here at Fractal Central today.  The three fractal cats, all-black 11-1/2-year-old Nicholas, all-black 13-month-old Jasmine and the 6-1/2-month-old tabby Lida, enjoyed the warm and brilliant sun on the southwest window shelf.  The humans had too many other tasks to enjoy the sun.

The next FOTD will be posted in record time.  Since there are no previous records to refer to, this means nothing.  Until whenever, take care, and organize your worries.  Worry about war on Sundays, disease on Mondays, terrorism on Tuesdays, financial collapse on Wednesdays, climate change on Thursdays, an asteroid strike on Fridays, and a years-long electric blackout on Saturdays.  Hey, we're out of days and there are still a lot of things that we need to worry about.

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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