FOTD -- January 08, 2014 (Rating A-8,M-6) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's image is a scene in the East Valley area of a tiny half-morphed minibrot just beyond the large minibrot on the main spike of its parent fractal, which is a hugely oversized Mandelbrot set corrupted in its depths by Z^15 energies. At the depth of today's scene, the Z^15 energies have completely taken over, though the outer elements still retain much quadratic detail. I named the image "Magical Fifteen" because I have always seen something magical in the way the higher-order energies take over in the depths of apparently perfectly ordinary Mandelbrot sets. In my opinion, the art rates an 8. I did put about an extra half hour into the coloring to justify the rating. And the calculation finishes in only 2-1/3 minutes, making the image quite a bargain. For those shy about calculating fractals, the finished image is posted on the web sites. Check it at: <http://www.crosscanpuzzles.com/Archives.html> <http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/jim_muths_fotd.html> <http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/> <http://user.xmission.com/~legalize/fractals/fotd/about.html> Lots of clouds were the rule today here at Fractal Central. The temperature of 19F -7C was still quite cold, but after the past week, it felt not too bad. The fractal cats spent the afternoon waiting for the sun to appear. When it never did, they decided to have a meal. The humans, who are always occupied with one thing or another, had a busy but un-notable day. The next FOTD will be posted right here in only a few hours. Until then, take care, and why do angels, who are apparently mammals, have feathered wings? One would think they would fly with bat-like wings such as the devil has. Jim Muth jimmuth@earthlink.net START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Magical_Fifteen { ; time=0:02:20.00 SF5 at 2000MHZ reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm formulaname=MultiExp function=recip passes=1 center-mag=-1796.053377352276/-0.00002501424642828\ /1.77998e+009/1/42.5/0 params=15/1000 float=y maxiter=1600 inside=0 logmap=282 periodicity=6 mathtolerance=0.05/1 colors=00000A00A00A00A00A30A60AA2AE5AK9AQDAWLAaRAg\ VAjXAkWAlU9lQ1kK0jE0hC0gB0fA0f90c80b70_60Y40W30U20\ S10T00R00Q00T10V40X73ZA6`D9cGCeJFgMIiPLkSOmVRnYUo`\ XrieunnxsrvqoromomknkiliglhelgbkfZkgWjhRjiMjjGik7i\ l8jp8im9ikAiiBigCieDicDhaEh`Fh_GhZHhYIjXKhWIfVHdUF\ bTEaSC_RBYQ9WP8UO6VN4TN5SO6RP7QQ8PR9OS9NTAMUBKVCJW\ DIXDHYEGZFF_GE`HejCe`HeRMeHReCVe8Ye4ae0de0ge0ae0Wd\ 0Rc0Lb1Fa2A`2A`3A`3A`3A`3A`39`39`39`39`39W38W38W38\ W38W43W38W38W37W37W37W37W37W37W36W46W46W46W46W45W4\ 5W45W45W45W45W44W44W44W44W44W44W43W43W43W43W43Yq0X\ o0Wm0Vl0Uj0Th0Sg0Re0Rc0Qb0P`0OZ0NY0MW0LU0LT0KR0JP0\ IO0HM0GK0FJ1EH1EF1DE2CC2BA2A93CzzClzCfzB_zBTzBOjBJ\ fAFaAEZADWACTABR9BO9AM99J98H97F8CC8HA8M78R5zeHzgGz\ iGzkGzmGznGzoFzpFzqFzrFzzFzjEizEizEhzEgzEgzEfzDezD\ ezDrzDrzDrzCrzCrzCrzCrzCrzBrzBrzBrzBrzBrzBrzArzArz\ JrzJrzJrzHrzGrzFrzDrrCrrB } frm:MultiExp { ; Jim Muth z=(0,0), c=pixel, a=-(real(p1)-2), b=imag(p1)+0.00000000000000000001: z=z*z*fn1(z^(a)+b)+c |z| < 100000000 } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================