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Fractal
visionaries
and enthusiasts:
Today's very deep Mandelbrot scene lies on a filament sprouting from a
minor period-5 bud on the northwest shore line of the large period-2
bud of the set.
I named the image "A Wheel of Numbers" for very good reasons.
The
elements certainly are in the shape of a wheel, and fractals certainly
are made of numbers
The rating of an average FOTD 7 might have been higher if I had put
more effort into the coloring. But today is tax day, and
paying
four-digit taxes always makes me irritable, which is a poor mood for
creating fine fractal art.
The calculation time of 48 minutes is slow, and there is no
excuse. They sometimes say that anything worth having is
worth
waiting for, but this is not always true. Will the
much-ballyhooed soon-to-arrive end of the world have been worth the
wait when and if it actually arrives?
Too many clouds and a midday shower spoiled today at Fractal
Central. The temperature of 81F 27C was well within the
comfort
range, but the fractal cats were more concerned with a stray cat that
appeared on the back porch than with being comfortable. When
the
stray cat wandered away, the fractal cats finally settled down to relax
as only a cat can.
The humans had an average day, though I became a bit annoyed when I
wrote the check for the taxes. The next FOTD will be posted
in 24
hours. Until then, take care, and the world that appears to
exist
around us may be nothing more than a consistent series of mental
images. But it sure is fun playing with the images and
pretending
they're real.
Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net
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