All my investigations of Jim's FOTX -- June 15, 2016 are (unless otherwise noted): - LogMap changed from Jim's 562 to 0 - 5X oversampled (to 27 mega-pixel images) - anti-aliased with slight sharpening I made the mistake of leaving Jim's MaxIter of 20,000 for all my investigations. I'm sure that this high a value was not needed for my relatively low magnification images. Full size images give best results. Jim's FOTX -- June 15, 2016: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/2016/F160615.jpg The FOTX's "parent" fractal: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/2016/F160615Z.jpg Enlargement of the FOTX's "parent" fractal: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/2016/F160615Y.jpg The islands zoomed into here are just barely visible inside the smaller bud kissing the larger bud attached to the main bay in "Y" above: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/2016/F160615X.jpg Take a trip to the islands: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/2016/F160615W.jpg http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/2016/F160615V.jpg is a zoom into a bay at the top of the upper scimitar-shaped island that's filled with tendrils -- of course, as with most fractals worthy of their name -- the tendrils are made of [spiraling] tendrils. Looking at the largest bud extending below the bottom of the large tendril-filled bay, there seem to be black lake-colored tendrils -- a startling development! Closer analysis reveals no such thing -- the tendrils are the same as in the bay above, but have become fat enough to almost crowd out the black lake. These remaining lake fingers are sort of tendril-like, but not really, as shown by this crop of the original 6k x 4.5k GIF: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/2016/F160615U.gif All in all, an interesting example of the Figure-Ground Effect. An anomaly with the tendrils in the large bay is that while those coming from the left are apparently "well organized" and uniformly converge to wherever they're going, those coming from the right are warped in their paths -- a bit like an "arch" in a fingerprint: They're just visible in this 1/2 size crop from the original 6k x 4.5k GIF: http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/2016/F160615T.gif - Hal Lane ######################## # hallane@earthlink.net ######################## -----Original Message----- From: Fractint [mailto:fractint-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Jim Muth Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 8:16 PM To: fractint@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Fractint] FOTX -- June 15, 2016 FOTX -- June 15, 2016 (Rating A-6,M-6) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: The fractals have been coming slowly recently. This does not mean I am thinking of taking another year-long hiatus. It means that due to the current world situation, I have been busy on the internet discussing, perhaps more accurately, arguing things such as politics, religion, science, philosophy, etc. And I am most certainly not trying to stir up a heated debate on this fractal list. There are many more appropriate lists on which to stir up trouble. I simply want to express my own opinions, with no claims of righteousness and no desire to debate. In politics, I am not so certain that the U.S. is as innocent as the mass media would have us believe. Especially because a good part of the rest of the world considers us the world's greatest trouble makers. In religion, I find it ironic that those of different faiths are so often at each others' throats, arguing over trifles, when none of them can offer the slightest hard evidence that anything supernatural such as a god or a soul actually exists at all. In science, I find it almost laughable that there are dozens of so-called quantum interpretations still floating around and being seriously debated. The theory was worked out about ninety years ago in Copenhagen by Bohr, Heisenberg etal. and it has proved itself by working superbly ever since. In philosophy, I find that after thousands of years, we are still debating whether the world is real or merely a persistent series of mental images. And I wonder what difference it could make. I also find it annoying that skeptics trying to defend a rational view of the world so often resort to childish ad-hominem attacks against those with irrational views. Come on guys, to me you look like a desperate high school debating team on the verge of losing a debate. In fractals, I have found a scene deep in the main spike area of a Mandelbrot set infected in its depths by cubic energies. The scene lies at a depth where the cubic energies predominate. The image rates a 6 both in art and math. I named it "Mediation" after my finger missed the letter 't' between the 'i' and 'a'. The calculation time of 37 minutes will go much faster on any machine less than 15 years old. The next FOTD should be posted tomorrow, that is if I don't get involved in another heated internet debate. Until then, take care, and the truth is out there . . . I guess. 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