Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:  

Today's image is named "Eight Buttons" because eight buttons are in the image, seven around the minibrot, the eighth in the upper left corner.  Actually, an infinity of similar buttons fill the frame, though they are too small to be visible at the magnitude of today's image.

The squashed-bug shaped Z^(1.57)+C parent fractal is the same one that held the most recent image.  Today's scene lies in a jagged disconnected string of debris well inland from the southern branch of Seahorse Valley of the parent.

The art is nothing to write home about and the math is hardly new, so both the art and math aspects of the image rate an adequate 7.

The calculation time is the real winner however.  At a fireball fast 30 seconds, the image will be finished, if anything, in too brief a time, so make things more interesting by visiting the web sites.

There was definitely a touch of autumn in the air today here at Fractal Central, with a brisk north wind, blue sky mixed with dark lumpy clouds, and a temperature of 64F 18C.  The fractal cats enjoyed the outside from the inside, while the fractal humans found only a little in either place to enjoy.

The next FOTD will be posted in the not-too-distant future.  Until whenever, take care, and stay alert for the next imminent threat.

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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