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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