FOTD -- June 22, 2007 (Rating 8) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: With its inadequate coloring, yesterday's FOTD showed what can go wrong with an evaporated fractal. Today's image is another evaporated one, but this time I put far more effort into the coloring, and the extra work has paid off. The image lies in the parent fractal that results when 2.72 parts of Z^(-2.7) are subtracted from 8.5 parts of Z^(-1.6). This parent is an oversized Mandeloid with X-axis symmetry, which has been rotated 180 degrees. It has a surprisingly large ring at the end of its main stem and an extra circular bay where its East Valley should be. Today's image lies on the northern shoreline of this extra bay. As the bailout radius of one-googol shows, the image has been totally evaporated, and the residue made visible by the 'bof61' inside fill, the fill that almost always works best with evap- orated images. And yes, there is a quadratic midget at the center of the image, but, being inside stuff surrounded by more inside stuff, it has almost vanished. I rated the image at an 8 because it actually seems to picture a real (meaning a 3-D onjective) object. I named the image "Out of Balance", though in this case it is not life that is out of balance, it is the elements of the image. The calculation time of under 3 minutes is not too bad, but an even better choice is to view the finished image on the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> A mostly sunny, breezy and rather warm day here at Fractal Central on Thursday, with a high temperature of 84F 29C went un- noticed by the cats, who were more interested in watching for the baby rabbits that have been hopping around the yard, eating Fractal Lady's flowers. When the rabbits never showed up, the cats eventually lost patience and fell asleep. It thundered in the evening, but the rain never arrived. My day was about average. But tomorrow I plan on a trip back to Old Fractal Central to say hello to the old fractal cats, Thomas and Tippy, and pick up some more things I left there. I'll try to post the FOTD for June 23 on schedule, but there is no guar- antee. Until next time, take care, and how does one recognize the real reality when he meets it? Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Out_of_Balance { ; time=0:02:36.38-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=recip passes=1 center-mag=+0.49734046783936980/+0.607634194530533\ 00/197902.1/1/-60/-4.51899531683785938e-009 params=8.5/-1.6/-2.72/-2.7/0/1e+100/0/0 float=y maxiter=1400 inside=bof61 logmap=yes periodicity=10 colors=00084N64L45K25I05H3AJ5EL7IM9MOCQPEURGYTIaUL\ eWNiXPmZRq_QtaPwcPzdOyeNxeNwfMwfMvgLugLthKthJsiJri\ IqjIqjHpkHokGnlFnlFmmElmEknDknDjoCioCioAbc8XT6QH4K\ 68O8CSAFWCJZEMbGQfIUiKXmM`qOctQaqR`oS_mTZjUXhUWfVV\ cWUaXS_XRXYQVZPT_OQ`MO`LMaKJbJHcHFcGCdFAeE8fD6fH5e\ K5eN5eR5dU5dX5d`5cc5cf5cj5bm5bp5bs5bV8e7BgEHjLNmST\ pZZreduljxspzrmwrktrhrrfordlrajr_gqXdqVbqT_qQXqOVq\ LSqJPqHNnIOlIPiIQgIRdISbITaIUiJVVJWTJXRJYOJZMJ_JG`\ HGaEKbCKc9Kd7Ke4Kf2Kq0Kq9OiHSiQWiY_jfcjnjmvoztijrh\ jqhjogjegjoeqkmwiejgdjfdjdcjcdjlbj`ijZajYajY`kY`lZ\ aniWlY`kY`jY`iY_hY_gY_fYVeY_dXZbXZaXZ`XZ_XYZXTYXYX\ XYWDEADBAD8ADAADBADCADDAADAJDKMEJVEIWFIZHH_IHbJGdM\ FfOFhQEkTDlVDnXCp_BraBvcAyfAmaGbbLXcQRdVLe`Ffe9gj3\ ho6Yl8OiADfC3cE4dF5dG6eI7eJ8fK9fMAgNBgOBhQChRDiSEi\ UFjVGjWHkYIkZJl_Jl`LhaNebPbcQ_dSXdUUeWRfXOgZLh`Iia\ EhaFgaGfaHeaIdaJcaKcaLbaM } 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=========================================