Jim Muth wrote:
FOTD -- January 12, 2008 (Rating 10)
Today's image rates a 10. This is no mistake. To find it, I went as deep as possible into Seahorse Valley to highlight one of the things there that I call peanut holes.
Yum, yum - definitely a 10! Now what are these things you call peanut holes and why do you call them that?
I named the image "Ultra-Extremism" because it takes everything to the extreme. To start, the maxiter of 2,147,483,647 is the program's limit, and even with this maxiter there are open holes in the image. Next, the magnitude of 1.7*10^13 is at the limit of the conventional math routine, and finally, the calculation time of almost 7 hours is the limit of practicality. (Arbitrary precision math would finish the image in about 700 hours, or one month.)
Since the image sets a new record in so many aspects and also is artistically pretty good, I decided to give it a rating of a 10, the highest possible rating, very rarely achieved.
Perhaps the most interesting thing in the image is its lack of resemblance to anything that might be expected in a typical Seahorse Valley image. The net-like features, for one thing, are nowhere in evidence in the normally explored parts of the valley.
I strongly advise against calculating the image yourself. The calculation time of almost 7 hours on my fastest machine will stretch into days on anything slower.
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