FOTD -- June 06, 2011 (Rating 7) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Sometimes when I'm writing these FOTD discussions I feel like a merchant trying not to sell his goods. (It's not so unusual. After all, we hear electric power companies all the time telling us to use less of their product.) But I believe in honesty in fractal talk as well as in advertising, so I admit my fractal shortcomings. In today's image I'm playing catch-up fractaling, and the quality appears to have suffered. I managed to get the quality of today's image up from a rating of a lowly 5 to a rating of an average 7. It's an improvement over yesterday for sure, but still leaves us well below FOTD top quality. But an image is an image, and even though it's late, today we have an image. The parent fractal came about when I combined 0.001 part of Z^1001 with straight Z before adding straight C on every iteration. This uninspiring combination produces a parent fractal that is little more than a vague circle with a bit of action at its eastern extremity. Zooming in on this action reveals a tiny distorted Mandeloid and a section of the large circular arc, which in its entirety consists of 1000 lobes. Today's scene lies toward the rounded tip of the lobe closest to the Mandeloid. I named the image "Fishbone" because that's what came to mind as I studied it in search of a name. (The search was a short one.) The calculation time of 3-3/4 minutes will pass un-noticed. The finished image is available on the FOTD web site at: <http://www.crosscanpuzzles.com/Archives.html> The image is available in high definition at: <http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/jim_muths_fotd.html> The classic FOTD web site with fractal images from as far back as April 1997 may be accessed at: <http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/> The weather has been pretty pleasant for the past few days here at Fractal Central, with lots of sun and near normal tempera- tures around 79F 26C. I have been passing time trying to get the FOTD caught up. Maybe I should have simply skipped the FOTD for June 5. At least the fractal cats are sharing the work load, giving morale support when the fractaling gets rough. The next FOTD, the one for June 7, will likely be posted in a few hours. Until then, take care, and be ready for what may come. Jim Muth jimmuth@earthlink.net START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Fishbone { ; time=0:03:44.13-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=ident float=y center-mag=+0.00857153940435359/-0.000026928341367\ 55/1.44275e+008/1/180 params=1/1/0.001/1001/0/0/0/0 maxiter=4800 inside=0 logmap=663 periodicity=6 colors=0006B`7CW8CQ9DLAEGBABDXsJToOQlTNiYJebGbgD__\ 4aX7_UAZSCYPFXNIVKKUHNTFQSCSQAVP7YO5_N8YMBXLDWKGVJ\ IUJLTINSHQRGTQFVPFYOE_NDbMCdLCfOAhR8jU6lX5n_3pb1re\ 0sd2sc3sb5ta6t`8t_9uZAuZCuYDvXFvWGvVHwUJwTKwTMxSNx\ ROxQQyPRyOTyNUyNVxLZxKbxIfxHjwGnwErwDvwCynDtfDpZDk\ RDgJDcHL_FSWD_SBfOCeNDdMEcMFbLGaKG`KH_JIZJJYIKXHLW\ HLVGMUGNTFOSEPREQQDQPDRJZSDtUMiWV_YcQZkGU6jU6kU6kV\ 6lV6mV6m_DgdJbiQYnWSsbNLRJRNCXI6bE049k5Aern6jmBclG\ XkLPjQIiVBh_4hd5fe5de6bf6af6_g7Yg7Wh7Vh8Yl9_oAbsBd\ vCfyKcySay__ygYynWybfuRpqSirScrTXrTRrUKsUEsV7sV1s_\ 5fd8VZKMjWDlg4jfDieLhdTfcaebidaqcayeYtfUohRkiNfkJa\ lGYnCTo9PnMRmYSljTqvmScyWQbZCHiV`sltpjnnihlgcjfYhe\ SfcNdbHbaCZ_GVZJSYMOXPKWSHVVDUYUTzDUbFVdHWfJWgLXiN\ YkPZmcZnMcmHglDkk8oj4siApbGmXLwRRmKXmEam8pmtomhomX\ omLomAKmmLmnMmnNmnOmnQmLVmfXzUYzH4zbKzL4zYFzOPzEfz\ abzLtzADz`LzQSzFmzLizGezC } 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=========================================