FOTD -- April 27, 2014 (Rating A-10,M-10)

Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Finally, after all these years, we have a FOTD that rates a

double 10. And it took an invasion of flying saucers from outer

space to earn this astounding rating. My first impulse was to

name the image 'Saucer Invasion', but then I decided to give the

aliens the benefit of a doubt, and not automatically assume they

are war-like creatures. I finally decided that the aliens are

here on nothing more threatening than a galactic convention, and

named the image "Saucer Convention".

The art rates the holy grail of a 10 because after hours of

working on the 48-colors of the palette, I finally got the image

to appear almost 3-D photographic. The math earns the same

rating because I have no idea what is going on with the math,

which appears to have something to do with both Mandelbrot

images and Newton's method of finding roots. This could well be

the only FOTD that will ever be posted rating a double ten.

The flying saucers are all made of some burnished hi-tech

copper-colored metal. Some of them resemble huge flying

kettledrums, while others resemble thin, flattened dish-like

craft, barely able to hold an intelligent alien. It's anyone's

guess what the inhabitants of the saucers might look like.

The saucers must be mother ships carrying fleets of smaller

craft. How else could the many smaller groups flying in

formations be explained?

The image takes 3-1/4 minutes to calculate, which is likely a

lot less than the time it took the saucers to reach the earth

from their home worlds scattered throughout the galaxy, if not

the universe.

See the finished image instantly 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>

The partly cloudy sky, chilly north winds and temperature of 57F

14C were fine for spring gardening here at Fractal Central

today, though not quite so good for the fractal cats, who were

unhappy about the chill and waited for the sunshine to become

dependable, which never happened. The fractal humans were in

kind of a down mood. The next FOTD will in all likelihood be

posted 24 hours from now. If not, it will appear in 48 hours.

Jim Muth

jimmuth@earthlink.net

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