FOTD -- February 17, 2013 (Rating 8) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's image features a minibrot at its center. (Nothing unusual there). But the minibrot is surrounded by an unusually well-defined and decorative pattern, which gives the image a rating of an 8. The parent fractal consists of two crooked and widely separated Mandelbrot sets symmetrical with respect to the X-axis and connected by a band of debris. A kind of fractal butterfly exists where this debris intersects the X-axis, with today's scene lying in the debris surrounding this butterfly. The name "Pattern in Nothing" is a comment on the abstract nature of numbers, which are about as close to nothing as it is possible to come -- at least in this world. The calculation time of one minute is quite a bargain. After all, one can certainly spend much more time than this and still end up with nothing. But once again, the web sites come to the rescue by saving the minute and making the image labor-free. The finished image is posted online for instant viewing at: <http://www.crosscanpuzzles.com/Archives.html> High-definition variations are at: <http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/jim_muths_fotd.html> The back images are available at: <http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/> A brisk partly cloudy day with snow flurries and a temperature of 27F -3C kept the fractal cat as well as the fractal humans near the heat most all day. Stuff that is more exciting did not happen. The daily fractal journal is written to be more factual than exciting The next FOTD will be posted in either 24 or 48 hours. Until a day or two, take care, and several scientists now tell us that the universe might have come from nothing. Is this another way of saying that God created the universe? If God does not exist, as Atheists believe, then God must be nothing. Or am I merely engaging in word play? Jim Muth jimmuth@earthlink.net START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Pattern_In_Nothing { ; time=0:01:00.00 SF5 at 2000MHZ reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=ident center-mag=-0.1174897833/+0.004803/41599/1/25/0 params=1.6/1.5/0.8/3/0/0/0/0 float=y maxiter=2250 inside=0 logmap=45 periodicity=6 colors=000U8vSArPCnMEjJGeGIaEKYBMU8OP5QL2SH0UD4WG7\ YIA_KDaMGaOJbQMcSQdUUhWZmYcr_huamwcrvevugzsizqkzom\ zmrulotllslirlfqlcpl`olYnlVmmSlmPkmMjmJimGhmDgmAen\ 7fm8fl9fkAfjAgiBghCggDggDgfEheFhdGhcGhbHiaIi`Ji`Ji\ _KiZLjYMjXMjWNjVOjYIjWLjVOjUQjTTjSWjRYjQ`jPcmQfjOe\ gNeeMebKe_JdYIdVGdSFdQEcNDcKBcIAcF9bC7bA6b75b54bN8\ tOArPBqQDpREoSGmTHlUIkVKjWLhXNgYOfZPe_Rd`SbaUabV`c\ W_dYYeZXf`WgaVhbUhbUg`Vf_WeYWeXXdWXcUYbTYbSZaQZ`P_\ bMZ`O_ZQ`XR`VTaTUaRWbPYcNZcL`dEbeGadIadKadLadNadP`\ dQ`dS`dU`dZ_aV`dRagOajKbmHboDcrAcu6dxKdzKewKeuKfsP\ fqPfoPglPgjUhhUhfUhdUibUi_UjYUjWUjUckSckQclNclLclJ\ cmHcmFcmEcmDcjFchHchJchKchOchRchUccYcc`cccccgccjcb\ Uc_`cXfcUmcRscGxcKycOycRycVycYycaycdychycjzckyckxc\ kwclwclvclucmtcmtcmscnrcnqcnqmopmoomonmopmnnmmmmml\ mmkmmjmmimmhmmfmmemmdmmcmmbmmamm`mmXmmUmmSmmUmmVmm\ XmmYmm_mmammbmmdmmfmmgmmi } frm:MandAutoCritInZ {; Jim Muth a=real(p1), b=imag(p1), d=real(p2), f=imag(p2), g=1/f, h=1/d, j=1/(f-b), z=(((-a*b*g*h)^j)+(p4)), k=real(p3)+1, l=imag(p3)+100, c=fn1(pixel): z=k*((a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f)))+c, |z| < l } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================