Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's image is the hinted-at zoom into yesterday's image, to a depth where the central minibrot becomes well-resolved.  At this depth the filaments have almost totally degenerated into masses of chaos, though filament signs are still visible.  The shape of concentric circles that is formed by the chaos surrounding the minibrot in today's image is typical of the patterns in very deep minibrot basins.

I emphasized the chaos in the image by rendering the scene with a random color palette and by not using the logmap feature.  The logmap renderings do bring out the remaining filamentary nature of the scene.

The name "Zigging and Zagging-2" could also be something like 'Son of Zigging and Zagging' or 'Curse of Zigging and Zagging', but these names are too long to fit into the 18-character limit set aside for the parameter name.

The rating of 7-1/2 includes a half-point for the coloring, which is marginally better than yesterday's.

Being deeper than yesterday's image, today's is also slower, taking a full 33-1/2 minutes to finish.  Do not bother to switch to the passes=g option.  In this particular image it is no faster than passes=1.

Partly cloudy skies and a temperature of 81F 27C made conditions near perfect for the start of autumn here at Fractal Central.  The fractal cats gave the day total approval.  They stretched in the sun, which in autumn and spring comes in the south window at a better angle.  The humans spent the day relaxing, a chore that is sometimes easier said than done.  The next FOTD, hopefully a bit better than moderately good, will be posted in 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and perhaps changing the past is the reciprocal of knowing the future.

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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