FOTD -- November 14, 2003 (Rating 6) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: I realize that today's FOTD is late. During the wind-storm on Thursday we had another of our traditional power failures, which, though brief, was just long enough to put me behind in the graphics work. Wanting to avoid another work back-up situation, I spent the first part of today catching up on the work that should have been finished yesterday. Fortunately, when the work was caught up, I had good luck in my fractal quest. That quest took me out the negative stem of the Mandelbrot set to the East Valley of the large midget at -1.75, where I found a world quite similar to the East Valley area of the M-set itself, yet strangely different. The scene I found there reminds me of a display of caladium leaves, and I could easily have named it "Caladium", but I decided to stick with the bland but orderly consecutive 'Mbrot**' numbering system. The rating of 6 might be a bit conservative, but it's hard to give a fractal that has been found almost automatically a rating higher than 'a little above average'. The render time of 4-1/2 minutes is fast enough to make running the parameter file practical, and slow enough to make downloading the completed GIF image from: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> or from: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> more convenient. Tuesday was partly cloudy with a temperature of 46F 8C, but the wind gusted over 60mph (near 100kph) during most of the after- noon. The constant roar kept the intrepid duo very skittish, removing all thoughts of going outside from their heads. They passed the day on their shelves by the windows, watching the packs of empty trash cans clattering down the street. Today has been a bit on the busy side, but it is nothing that I cannot finish by later this evening. And then it's back to the Mandelbrot set to find tomorrow's FOTD. Until tomorrow, take care, and there will always be fractals. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Mandelbrot-03 { ; time=0:04:39.13--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=mandel passes=1 center-mag=-1.74999488467703500/-0.000000136207487\ 40/1.425142e+011/1/-100/-0.00196521785314480307 params=0/0 float=y maxiter=100000 bailout=16 inside=0 periodicity=10 colors=000ksalsdpsiqtlstpwtsxwwzwzzwzzxzzxzzxzzszz\ nzzizzdzx_zwVzsQxqLtpGslBqk6ni1lf0id0gd0gb0fb0fa0f\ a0d_0d_0d_0bY0bY0bX0bX0aX0aV0aV0_T0_T0_T0YR0YR0YQ0\ YQ0XQ0XO0XO0VN0VN0VL0VL0TL0TJ0TJ0RI0RI0RI0QG0QG0QE\ 0QE0OE0OD0OD0NB0NB0N90OB0NB0NB0NB0ND0ND0LD0LD0LE0L\ E0LE0LE0JG0JG0JG0JG0JI0JI0II0II0IJ0IJ0IJ0IJ0GL0GL0\ GL1GL1GL1GN2IN4JN6JN8LN9LNBNNDNNEOOGOOIQOJQOLRONRO\ OTOQVORVOTXQVXQXYQYYQ__Q__QaaQbaQdbRfbRgdRidRkfRlg\ RngRpiRqiRskTtkTwlTxlTznTznTzpTzpTzqQzsTzqVzqXzqYw\ q_sqapqblqdiqffqgdqiapkYplVpnRppOpqLpsIptEpwBpw8nx\ 9pxBpxBpxDqxEqxEqxGszIszIszJtzJtzLtzNwzNwzOwzQxzQx\ zRxzRxzTzzVzzVzzXzzYzzZzz`zzbzzbzzczzdzzezzfzzgzzh\ zzizzizzjzzjzykxxjztktpkqilkdkf_j_ViVOhOJgJEfD9e82\ d10d00d00d00d00d00d00d00d00d01d02d06d08d09c0Dc0Ec0\ Gb0Jb0Lb0Nb0Qb0Rb0Tb0Xb0Ya0aa0ba0da0ga0ia0ka0na0bi\ ObkQblQblQbnQbpQbpQfqVgqY } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================