FOTD -- April 04, 2012 (Rating 7.5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's FOTD is late. Another of those 'sudden unexpected graphic design rushes' is to blame. But here the image is in all its unglory, a little better late than never. I named the image "Stars and Flowers" when I came up with no better name. The image takes us to the small object just below the brilliant green patch in the southwest corner of the parent fractal, which is the creative source of all the infinite worlds lying withing it. This, the second minibrot scene I have found in the parent, resembles yesterday's image a bit too closely for comfort. Maybe I chose the wrong creative source to dive into. The parent must have far more variety in it than I have stumbled upon so far, however. Tomorrow's image will be the third dive into the same parent, and I can guarantee that it will at least be different, if not better. The rating of a 7-1/2 includes a half point for the extra coloring effort. Believe it or not, I did put extra effort into the coloring. The calculation time of 3-3/4 minutes borders slowness. But the FOTD web sites are always ready to ease impatience. View the finished image at: <http://www.crosscanpuzzles.com/Archives.html> The high-definition rendering is at: <http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/jim_muths_fotd.html> All the past images and discussions may be accessed at: <http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/> Total sun from dawn to dusk made today a day to be remembered here at Fractal Central. With a temperature of 70F 21C, the fractal cats had a pleasant enough day, though they still wondered why the sun no longer floods their window shelf in the afternoon. The humans had a reasonably good day. At least, it was free of racial politics. The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and bring on the 'new' science. There are some important questions that need answers. Jim Muth jimmuth@earthlink.net START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Stars_and_Flowers { ; time=0:03:45.00 SF5 at 2000MHZ reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=recip float=y center-mag=-163.1263698868428/+26.61589412714854/\ 3444199/1/-155/0 params=-1.3/-3.3/-3.3/-1.3/0/0/0/0 maxiter=3000 inside=0 logmap=370 periodicity=6 colors=00002C03A04A05A06A06A0880780A80880C80960A60\ D60960G60960ME1OK6VPCaVIh_MjeRpjXqo_wuewziwzozzIlX\ 4TE0A00E00G01I14M48O6CQ8ETAIVCMXGPYIRaKVcMYeO_hPcj\ RglTinVgoXgoYgoYgo_gq_gqagqcgqcgqeereergergerierje\ tjetletletnetnVwqKwu8wx6wv4wu4ts1os1jq0fo0an0Xn0Tl\ 0OK0IK0EK0GK1IK6IUAKUCKUGMUKOUOOzPQzTQzXRz_TzcTzeV\ ziVzlXzoYzqYzu_zx_zzazzazufznlzgqzYvzRwzKwzPwzTwuX\ wo_wjeweiw_lwVowPsvKxvEzt8zt1zr0zr0zo0zn0zj0zh1xf6\ uc8saCt_EuXGvVKwTMwQPwORwMVwIXwGYwEawAcz9gc7iG2lC0\ nA0oI2nO4nV9n_AneCnlGnqInvKnuIlsGlqEjoCjoAin9il7gj\ 4gi2gi0eg0ee0cc0cc0aa0a_0aY0_X0_X0YV0YT0XR0XR0Xg9G\ 00z00z00z00z10z80zC0zG0zK0zP0zT0zX0z_0zc0zi0zl0zo0\ zs0zx0zz0zz0zz0zz0zzAzuIzlRzeYzXfzOnzEvx6wxCwuGwsK\ wqOwnRwlVwjYwiaweewciwalw_owXswVvwTzwRzwOzwMzwKzwI\ zwOzwTzwXzwazwezwjzwnzwnzwqAwzAwzAwzAwzAwzAwzAwzAw\ zAwzAwzAwzAwzAwzAwzKwzIwz } 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=========================================