Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

With FL out of town on Saturday, I had Fractal Central to myself for the whole day.  I took advantage of the opportunity by doing nothing, though I did take a quick trip to the Mandelbrot set to find today's FOTD.

The image is a scene in the Seahorse Valley of a minibrot on the filament extending from the period-2 bud on the north side of the main bay of the larger minibrot at -1.417 on the main spike of the Mandelbrot set.  The seahorse attributes of the location are quite apparent.

The rating of a 5 indicates that I could take the image or leave it.  Actually, I took it, since it was the only one I found for September 5.

The name "Deep in Somewhere" came about when I forgot exactly where in the M-set I had found the scene and had to back-track to pinpoint its position.

The image may also be calculated using arbitrary precision math.  But this will prolong the calculation time near 500 times to an incredible 4 hours, resulting, after all that effort, in only a barely noticeable increase in quality.

Saturday turned breezy and cooler here at Fractal Central, with a sky filled with dark lumpy clouds and only intermittent sun.  The temperature of 73F 23C must have been just right for the fractal cats, who were unusually active, chasing each other up and down the long hallway for several hours.

With FL away at a wedding, my day was inactive.  I had intended to get a lot done, but laziness won out and I spent most of the time watching TV and philosophizing to myself.

The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and if every human mind is a unique self-aware individuality, how many different unique individualities would be possible given infinite resources?  If there is no limit, then what is the chance of my ever having come into existence in the first place?  One divided by infinity is an infinitesimal, which makes the chance of my existence in effect equal to zero.  Therefore it is impossible for me to be here writing this.  (Something must be wrong somewhere, but I can't figure out what.)

Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com
jimmuth@aol.com


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