FOTD -- November 25, 2003 (Rating 6) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: Had I not named today's image "Mandelbrot-13", I might have named it something like "Galaxia". It resembles nothing as much as a midget Mandelbrot set acting as though it were a black hole at the center of a giant galaxy. The giant galaxy is surrounded by four satellite spiral galaxies, which appear at first glance to be disconnected, but actually are connected to the main body of the M-set by infinitesimally thin filaments that do not show up in the image. The whole area is filled with smaller irregu- lar galaxies and scattered individual stars. Instead of going straight out the center line of a chain of buds, as we have done in the recent FOTD images, we entered the north bud and kept turning into smaller buds on the right to find the valley that holds today's scene. In fact, the valley that holds today's scene is of the sixth order. (It's the valley enclosing a bud on the side of a bud on the side of a bud etc. . . .) Areas such as this consist of almost total chaos, and a broad color palette must be used to reveal the subtle hidden order. Yes, there can be order in chaos, but who knows what it means. The parameter file runs in a moderately slow 12 minutes on my machine, which, considering the high iteration count of the elements, is not too bad. But 12 minutes is 12 minutes, and time may be saved by downloading the finished GIF image from Paul's web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> or from Scott's site at: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> Monday turned out quite pleasant here at Fractal Central. The clouds cleared away by noon, the temperature reached 68F 20C, and the fractal cats were happy all afternoon. When evening arrived, they came indoors without coaxing, and settled for the night without tuna. But such good things cannot continue. A cold front that arrived overnight has dropped the temperature to near freezing this morning. It remains to be seen how the cat duo will adjust to the chill. My task is to finish the modicum of work waiting to be done. When it is finished, I'll see what I can dredge up from the depths of the Mandelbrot set. Whatever I find will appear as tomorrow's FOTD, so until then, take care, and where did yesterday go? Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Mandelbrot-13 { ; time=0:12:12.86--SF5 on a P200 reset=2002 type=mandel passes=1 center-mag=-0.02364046275250382/+0.783659823068409\ 40/4.519853e+010/1/17.4999176198803177/7.992807071\ 13048106e-005 params=0/0 float=y maxiter=120000 bailout=9 inside=0 logmap=-9680 periodicity=10 colors=000DHdEFeFCfGAgH8hI6iJ5jK5kL3lM2mN1nO0oP0pQ\ 0qR0rS0sT0uU0uU0uU0uU0uU0uU0uU0uU0uU0uU0uU0uU0uU0u\ U0uU0uU0uU0uU0uU0vU0vU0wV0wW0xX0xY0yZ0y_0z`0za0zb0\ zc0zc0zc0zc0zc0zc0zc0zc0zc0zc0zc0zc0zc0zc0zc0zc0zc\ 0zc0zc0zc0zc0zc0zc0vc0oc1fc2Ya3VV3NR5HL6CH6AL8CL8C\ NACNACNCFRCFRCFVFFVFHVHHYHHYHHaLHaLLaNLfNLfNLfRNjR\ LjVIoVGoVEoYCsaAsf9vj7zo6zs6zv6zz6zz6zz6zz6zz7zzAz\ zAzzDzzGzzJzzNzzRzzVzzZzzczzfzzjzzmzzqzzuzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================