All my investigations of Jim's FOTX -- May 26, 2016 are: (unless otherwise noted) - 5X oversampled - Jim's LogMap changed from 256 to 0 Viewing these images full size preserves their quality. Jim's FOTX -- May 26, 2016: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/2016/F160526.jpg For the adventuresome, here is the original GIF image I calculated at 6000 x 4500 pixels (10.4 MB). If you look carefully, there are endless numbers of 3-fold symmetry features -- but Jim has cleverly found a Mandeloid that is surrounded by a 9-fold symmetry ring! Inside that circle is a ring of 27-fold symmetry, and as near as I can make it out, a ring further inside of 81-fold symmetry: If Jim had not pointed out the subtle 6-fold symmetry -- just outside the 9-fold ring of red arms -- I would have missed it. http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/2016/F160526.gif FOTX's "parent" fractal: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/2016/F160526Z.jpg Zoomed a bit: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/2016/F160526Y.jpg Even at this low level of zoom, you can see that this fractal is "disturbed": http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/2016/F160526X.jpg The bud at top right in "X" above has something awry: - only mild sharpening seemed to be needed http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/2016/F160526W.jpg The bud at far left in "X" above: Anomalies are more pleasing to the eye when they are symmetrical: - no sharpening applied http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/2016/F160526V.jpg I was intrigued by the variety of different things going on in this scene in "V" above: - Jim's MaxIter of 2000 changed to 4000 - only mild sharpening seemed to be needed http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/2016/F160526U.jpg The area to the left and above where "U" is located in "V" includes an 18-armed spiral of tendrils. For some reason, I'm enamored with groups of tapering tendrils that seem to "know" where each other are and avoid one another. Only rarely have I seen two tendrils cross over one another. - A small amount of Unsharp Mask filtering was applied to bring out the tendrils. Thanks for the tip, David! - Jim's MaxIter of 2000 changed to 4000 http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/2016/F160526T.jpg - Hal Lane ######################## # hallane@earthlink.net ######################## -----Original Message----- From: Fractint [mailto:fractint-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Jim Muth Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 8:08 PM To: fractint <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: [Fractint] FOTX -- May 26, 2016 FOTX -- May 26, 2016 (RatingA-8.5,M-7.5 ) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Today's image shows a scene in a parent fractal that on its surface is an everyday quadratic M-set. But this parent is contaminated in its depths by cubic energies. The location is in the northern of the two East Valleys (Elephant Valleys) of the large minibrot on the main spike of the parent M-set, which lies at the depth where the cubic contamination first appears. But even at today's rather deep magnitude the cubic energies have not yet been totally absorbed by the cubic, which is visible in the subtle 3-6-9-27.... rather than the expected 3-9-27.... series of arms surrounding the minibrot. I rated the art aspect at an honorable 8.5, since I'm starting to work off the rust and get back into the well-oiled world of fractals worth being considered art. The math does not do too bad either. The rating of a 7.5 is right up there with the big-time images. The name "Caught in a Fantasy" is simply a statement of fact. After all, what are fractals if they are not manifestations of the things numbers do, just as the real world, whose ultimate reality I now consider questionable, appears to be when we look deeper into the quantum. Actually, the more I delve into QM, the more confused I become. Just this morning I read on the internet that all electrons are exactly the same, so that they basically ARE the same electron, which means that in a sense there is only one electron in the universe, and it is therefore questionable to use the word 'electron' in the plural sense. It might be better to think of an electron as a local manifestation of a universal field. This seemed clear enough until I read on another site that some think there could be changeable values hidden in electron(s), and if this were so, it would make some puzzling quantum facts more sensible. But then I wondered how all electrons can be considered identical if they also may have variable attributes hidden within them. The only thing for sure now is that I am far from grasping quantum theory. Things went fairly smoothly here at Fractal Central today. The weather was partly cloudy with a temperature of 88F 31C and higher but still not oppressive humidity. A few showers threatened in the evening but never materialized. The next FOTX will appear in a day or two or three. Until whenever, take care, and maybe the quantum world is a huge fractal. 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