FOTX -- June 15, 2016 (Rating A-6,M-6) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: The fractals have been coming slowly recently. This does not mean I am thinking of taking another year-long hiatus. It means that due to the current world situation, I have been busy on the internet discussing, perhaps more accurately, arguing things such as politics, religion, science, philosophy, etc. And I am most certainly not trying to stir up a heated debate on this fractal list. There are many more appropriate lists on which to stir up trouble. I simply want to express my own opinions, with no claims of righteousness and no desire to debate. In politics, I am not so certain that the U.S. is as innocent as the mass media would have us believe. Especially because a good part of the rest of the world considers us the world's greatest trouble makers. In religion, I find it ironic that those of different faiths are so often at each others' throats, arguing over trifles, when none of them can offer the slightest hard evidence that anything supernatural such as a god or a soul actually exists at all. In science, I find it almost laughable that there are dozens of so-called quantum interpretations still floating around and being seriously debated. The theory was worked out about ninety years ago in Copenhagen by Bohr, Heisenberg etal. and it has proved itself by working superbly ever since. In philosophy, I find that after thousands of years, we are still debating whether the world is real or merely a persistent series of mental images. And I wonder what difference it could make. I also find it annoying that skeptics trying to defend a rational view of the world so often resort to childish ad-hominem attacks against those with irrational views. Come on guys, to me you look like a desperate high school debating team on the verge of losing a debate. In fractals, I have found a scene deep in the main spike area of a Mandelbrot set infected in its depths by cubic energies. The scene lies at a depth where the cubic energies predominate. The image rates a 6 both in art and math. I named it "Mediation" after my finger missed the letter 't' between the 'i' and 'a'. The calculation time of 37 minutes will go much faster on any machine less than 15 years old. The next FOTD should be posted tomorrow, that is if I don't get involved in another heated internet debate. Until then, take care, and the truth is out there . . . I guess. Jim Muth jimmuth@earthlink.net START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Mediation { ; time=0:37:39.91 SF5 at 200MHZ reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm formulaname=FinDivBrot-2 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=-1.683430822074639/-0.00000000110990998\ /4e+009/1/55/0 params=3/33/0/0 float=y maxiter=20000 inside=0 outside=tdis logmap=562 colors=000lIWhDWi3Te8WaDZZIaVNdXRwURnSRfQRYLBVORQR\ eLTtHRqJQnLOkNNhPMeQMcRMbSM`TM_TW`Ne`Hn`CnaCmcCmeC\ lfDlhDliDkkDkmEjnEjpEjqEgoHdnJamL_lNXjPUiRShTPgVMe\ Y4XiKd_HcaEbcC`e9_g6Zi_6ZY8_W9`UBaTCaREbPFcOHcMIdK\ KeJLeHNfFOgEQgCRhATi9Ui7Wj5XkfC7cEA`GDZ5Ha6Nd7Ug8_\ hFXiMViTTj_QjfOkmMksKxjy_ceBYNMUPXRQgOSrLThRM_XFQb\ 8Hg2Me7QcBVbGZ`KbZOgYTkWXoV`_beLij6pnBefGVZLKRITTF\ aUCiWmUXmUYmUSmUMmUGmUAvK4rNBnQIjTOfWVbZ`ZagReqVdm\ Zcjbbfeaci``m_XqZUvJhuR_tYRym5zoCzqIzsOzuUzw_wzwrm\ Ynb9haDc`GZ`JU_MPZQKZTFYW9_`AYZBXXCVVCUUDSSERQFPO3\ TM9QNFONKLNQJOWGOpLahHV`EOUBHM8AF54GD8HKCHRGIYKFfO\ IdNLbMOaLR_KdXYZYQTZJcSFWWDOZCGaAZRB9d9EkALw8IqAGk\ CEeEC_G3L27QAAVID_Q2bRGcXTcbfdhsdmmUklYjlailehligl\ mftrowqjwpewo`wnWwmRwwMwwrwwIwwUwwbwwewwhwwkwwnwwq\ wwwwwswwpwwmwwiwwfwwcww`ww_ww_wwZwwZwwYwwYwwXww`ww\ XwwNwwQwwTww9wwKwwVwwWwwW } frm:FinDivBrot-2 { ; Jim Muth z=(0,0), c=pixel, a=-(real(p1)-2), esc=(real(p2)+16), b=imag(p1): z=(b)*(z*z*fn1(z^(a)+b))+c |z| < esc } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================