Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:  

Rational thinkers know that it is impossible to know the future.  And science tells us that fortune telling is nothing more than taking the current situation, adding the logical and most likely future developments and claiming to have supernatural powers.  Undoubtedly, this is how some fortune tellers operate, but how then can we explain the genuine prophet that appears in today's image, shining mystical enlightenment from heaven down to those on earth who are ready to receive it?

I have no answer.  All I know is that today's image was created when I calculated the expression Z^(1.1)+C at a level PI turns up the hyperladder.  The formula that I used, the new BranchCutGenHJ2, is the same as the previous BranchCutGenHJ formula but with a few parentheses removed.  With the parentheses gone, the formula draws different and apparently more accurate branch cut images, all of which have X-axis symmetry at the PI level regardless of the exponent.

Today's parent fractal vaguely resembles a Mandelbrot set rotated 180 degrees with a broken 'East Valley' edge on the west and large period-2 bud on the east.  Curiously, no higher order buds are in the parent fractal.  Today's image is located in the arc of debris on the north side of the parent's main bay.

I named today's image "The Holy Prophet" when I felt the enlightenment streaming down from above.  (Yeah, I know.  It's all supposedly been shown to be brain chemistry.)

The art rates an 8, showing me in the fullest depths of my 'blue' period mood.  The math rates only a 6, since we have been here often enough already.

The image calculates in about 6 minutes, just enough time to have a mystical revelation.  But the revelation may be avoided and reason preserved by visiting the web sites.

Virtually perfect weather prevailed here at Fractal Central today, with photoshop blue skies decorated with cottonpuff clouds, light winds and a high temperature of 72F 22C.  The fractal cats enjoyed the outside conditions from the inside, wishing they were back at old fractal central, where the old fractal cats enjoyed the outside from the outside.

The next FOTD will be posted in the proper time.  Until whenever, take care, and we call terrorists cowards, but how cowardly is it for a person to strap a bomb on himself and blow himself to pieces for a cause he considers right?

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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frm:BranchCutGenHJ2     { ; Jim Muth, thanks to Hal Lane
Z=C=Pixel:
Z=log(Z),
Z=exp(p1*Z+p2)+C,
|Z|<100 }

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