Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

POSSIBLE NEW FORMULA ALERT!  I might not have previously posted the Mandel-V-Esc formula, which allows changing of the bailout radius.  I'm not sure.

Today's rather weird image involves a couple tricks.  The image itself is located in the East Valley of the large minibrot at -1.75 on the main spike of the Mandelbrot set.

The first trick is rendering the image with the 'outside' set to 'real'.  This adds the intricate detail to the scene.

The second trick is coloring the image with a random color palette, though I did do a bit of tweaking to tone down the randomness at least a bit.  This creates the frantic madhouse effect that inspired the name "Madhouse".

The third and greatest trick is setting the bailout radius to the point just before the image gets cut off and goes blank.  In today's case this point is 3.079.  To see what this does, calculate the image with the real(p3) parameter set to 4, or even better, set it to 100.

All these tricks add up to a rating of 7.5, not bad, but far from the super 9.5 images of last month.

The calculation time of one minute is unexpectedly brief.  Part of the briefness is due to the fact that the points are beyond the bailout radius almost as soon as they get started.  The large flat areas also increase speed by making the passes=guessing option more efficient.

Over two inches, 5cm, of rain fell overnight Sunday here at Fractal Central, Monday remained cloudy, with occasional rain and a temperatre of 73F 23C.  The fractal cats, unconcerned with the weather and forecasts of much more rain to come, found their day's excitement by chasing each other in and out of the laundry basket.  The humans, never short of things to worry about, spent the day wondering what the future holds.

For better or worse, the next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and even Bozo the Clown could run the world's fast-fading superpower better than the present loser and the losers lined up to replace him.  Why not elect Bozo.  At least we would go down laughing.

P.S. -- The evil ______________ is/are responsible for the country's troubles.  (Fill in the blank with your favorite scapegoat or goats.)

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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frm:Mandel-V-Esc {; changeable bailout radius
z=p1, c=pixel+p2:
z=sqr(z)+c,
|z| <= p3 }

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