FOTD -- March 12, 2010 (Rating 7) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's image is a Julia set of the East Valley of a minibrot rather deep in East Valley of the Z^(2.003)+C Mandeloid. I named it "Surprise Coming" because it holds a surprise. The teaser is that the surprise will not come until tomorrow's FOTD. As it stands even without the surprise, today's image, with its flashy colors, rates another 7. The calculation time of just over 3 minutes will cause no one any grief. Total satisfaction can never be guaranteed, but a trip to view the completed image on the new FOTD web site at: <http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/> is sure to bring at least a little satisfaction. The image may also be seen for a limited time only on the soon-to-be-gone old FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> The forecast for Thursday here at Fractal Central called for rain. What we got instead was a totally sunny day with a temperature of 68F 20C. The fractal cats were glad the forecast had been so wrong, and mocked the busted forecast by spending the afternoon in the sun on their southwest shelf. My day would have been uneventful if a fickle customer had not decided he did not like his job and called in to change the entire thing. FL thought it was amusing, since she never did like my idea, but I failed to see the humor. The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and grow with time. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Surprise_Coming { ; time=0:03:08.34-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm formulaname=SliceJulibrot4 passes=1 periodicity=0 center-mag=0/0/2648/1/76/0 params=90/0/90/0/0.2758\ 107881858941/-0.006746958379780152/0/0/2.003/0 float=y maxiter=6000 inside=255 logmap=310 colors=000000XJaMCPB6CvGeFMQ7BDz82S51E20zEPS9GE48T\ UqJK_9AIaFgPATC5E8maeqz2`q1Rc1IR09DrtxdehRSUDUzVKz\ F6Sry4di3RV2DF1kisWU`GFIlxG_hCOU8CF4ixpNUQdz0zO0KG\ 0A80Ah06U03F0WvEGT7e08BrglGwZVoLih8xaGmRObGWT5faAz\ zFzzKe_DMj7LI6qU`_KOIACoqTQREURYKIMA9BdIQUDJK9DA46\ tZoqHX_BMI5B`xpvuDgf9TT6EE3aRzJDVBmg7XT3GE1Ul0M_0F\ O07CkPQWGHG88pONbIHQCBD65UuzaT1SL0JE0970EyqAic7VR3\ FDaQxSJhJDU96FwXTUGEhnyNwFFcA7K5peXQLGDB08704304Db\ 8z94V4LjGEVA7F5EVK9KD4A6jZRCZq9Qc6HR38D`8qI4R6_gtH\ FS87pD9Z86H43fYHWPCLH8A842Ly1AVig6UT4FE2q4M9Ib6DT4\ 9J2499vL6gF4TA2E5NTBHL8BE5572Q82J61D41620tg4SM2L2H\ E1B705gtaMSJte1eV0SL0EA02Rg1IT09ECMO6BCEOMp_BZO7HC\ 3itOYeINSCBE6upGfbCTQ8ED41g9hzz0MUzr2jqK0fFzOABC57\ bdUEQhAJU7Dc36_RLOIEC970`50O30C1Da_8PO4CCZG6NA4B52\ _MgRGXIBM95Bk7oW4YG2HhheSDDI88944vlOi_RNIDt2fa1SJ0\ Es78e56S34E12ZunAgH7XC5M8 } frm:SliceJulibrot4 {; draws all slices of Julibrot pix=pixel, u=real(pix), v=imag(pix), a=pi*real(p1*0.0055555555555556), b=pi*imag(p1*0.0055555555555556), g=pi*real(p2*0.0055555555555556), d=pi*imag(p2*0.0055555555555556), ca=cos(a), cb=cos(b), sb=sin(b), cg=cos(g), sg=sin(g), cd=cos(d), sd=sin(d), p=u*cg*cd-v*(ca*sb*sg*cd+ca*cb*sd), q=u*cg*sd+v*(ca*cb*cd-ca*sb*sg*sd), r=u*sg+v*ca*sb*cg, s=v*sin(a), c=p+flip(q)+p3, z=r+flip(s)+p4: z=z^(p5)+c |z|<=9 } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================