Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:  

Today's image shows a minibrot in the Z^(1.04)+C Mandeloid.  Despite the impossibility of moving through space faster than light, the minibrot appears to be doing just that.  I appropriately named it "Superluminal".

The parent fractal is shaped much like the minibrot in today's image, though the parent is zooming toward the east.  Today's scene is located in a narrow band of chaos on the southern shore line of the parent, near its rounded tip.

The rating of a 7 is close to average.  The rather muddy colors prevent me from giving the image a higher rating.

The calculation time of 8 minutes is slow.  I admit it.  But the web sites are up and running, and will eliminate the need of booting the 30-year-old DOS-OS just to run the parameter file.

A heavy bank of clouds hung over Fractal Central all day, while the temperature reached a relatively pleasant 61F 16C.  The fractal cat didn't complain about the lack of sun, but he did grumble about being served the wrong flavor of food at his midday meal.  (He wanted turkey; he got beef.)  The humans passed the day working and wondering about the current spate of disasters.

The next FOTD will most likely be posted in 24 hours.  If it is not, then it will be posted in 48 hours.  Until whenever, take care, and we can avoid future fertilizer plant disasters by moving fertilizer plants far away from residential areas.  (The only good thing in all the recent bad news is the disappearance of the Jodi murder trial from the news media.  Apparently God has had mercy on us.)

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


START PARAMETER FILE=======================================

Superluminal       { ; time=0:08:00.00 SF5 at 2000MHZ
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  2.622e+007/1/122.5/0 params=1.04/0/525/2400 float=y
  maxiter=10000 inside=0 logmap=800 periodicity=6
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  zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz }

frm:MandelbrotBC3   { ; by several Fractint users
  e=p1, a=imag(p2)+100
  p=real(p2)+PI
  q=2*PI*fn1(p/(2*PI))
  r=real(p2)+PI-q
  Z=C=Pixel:
    Z=log(Z)
    IF(imag(Z)>r)
      Z=Z+flip(2*PI)
    ENDIF
    Z=exp(e*(Z+flip(q)))+C
  |Z|<a }

END PARAMETER FILE=========================================