FOTD -- August 02, 2005 (Rating 5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: I named today's image "On The Way" because it is a passing scene viewed on the way to the final goal, which is an as-yet unseen midget lying at the center. I will reach this final goal later today, and it will appear tomorrow as the midget at the center of the frame. Today's scene is located in the Mandelbrot set, on the eastern shoreline of the main bay of a midget near the tip of the negative stem. Since I have not yet seen the final product, I can not yet give today's image an honest rating. The rating of a 5 is simply the average default rating. Being well within the range of arbitrary math, the image takes over 18 minutes to render. Whether the result is worth the effort will not be known until the image is seen. Of course, all uncertainty can be eliminated by downloading the finished fractal from the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> Fans of philosophy must have long ago given up hope that I would ever resume my discussion of the great philosophical problems about the nature of the 'self'. I have not abandoned the line of thought; the difficulty lies in trying to fit my conclusions into the rational scientific framework. Our method of doing science is totally geared to an assumed objective reality, and is truly unable to work with subjective things such as the con- scious mind unless it reduces them to the activity of the objec- tive mass of meat we call the brain, a reduction that totally loses the subjective aspect. The problem is one of describing subjective reality in a system that considers the term self- contradictory. I have many things to say on this topic, which, for fear of offending those with other views, I have not yet decided to put into words and make public. With a high temperature of 86F 30C and rather high humidity, Monday was a bit too warm for the fractal cats. They still managed almost two hours stretched on the cool ground under the holly trees however. Today is starting warmer and more humid. It will probably be too hot for the duo. For me, it looks like a dull average day coming up. The next FOTD fractal will appear in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and a dispassionate skeptic is about as rare as a dispassionate religious fundamentalist. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= On_The_Way { ; time=0:18:48.67--SF5 on a P200 reset=2004 type=mandel passes=1 center-mag=-1.9999964703337246818397741/3.09095179\ 16507e-13/1.764905e+021 params=0/0 float=y maxiter=3900 inside=0 logmap=269 periodicity=10 colors=000QSaWWfa`jgdomitsmxpfsm`okVjhOfeIacCYfGSh\ KNjNIlRCnV7pY2jR5eK8`DAW6DR0FUEOXRW_dcaqkRXTGCBL9P\ A4C60`jnZ4FX6LZ7S`9YbBddCjfBhcBfaBd_AbXA`VAZTAXRPP\ `cHjq9sjCncFiYIdRL`KOWERR7UM1XI0`R0d_0hh7_cERZLIUS\ AQLITFQV8YX2eZ1da1cc1bf1ah0`j0_m0Zo0Yq3Xo5Xm7WkAWi\ CVgEVeQWW`WMkWCjWGiWKhWOgWSfWVVdWJmX7vYDwMJtOOrQTo\ RYmTckVhhWmfYrdZchkPkxOfvNauNXtMTsLOqLJpKEoKAnT8fa\ 6Zj4Rs3JZETEObczJANN6FF377h3DX29M16B03ENZ9FN47B4YX\ VsRNeKFSD7E6jU1KEuD9a64JjSsVI`F9IT7rE3R5lF2O7rK8dF\ 6RA4D52Lg`ETO7EC5T8ohewHYfFVQDS9CQGFNMHLTKJZMHWTHT\ _HQfHOmHamRnm`aqZQuXEyWJ0G7VGa8BS68J459220RT0DEB`k\ JWVg8uXu7Of5GT38E1_ecsLreFdSARE5DMFSGBLB7E537CQj9J\ Z6DN36BGa4CS38J2491CcBLavVUoKKYAAHEw2Ah17U13F0Adm5\ KP_ydyQaVDJ1_W0IGD3lvBkg8_T5OE2CA`y6Od3CKa1OJ0CCKq\ 8D_46IBPJ5C9SsQI`H9I8DzG9jC6V83F4C4Bn`zPIVr3lK7TM8\ PO8LQ9HSADUB9VB5tf8DISKNX } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================