FOTD -- February 05, 2008 (Rating 8.5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: I began the day by winning the Spanish Lottery. After that, I was specially selected to buy a 5-day cruise to the Bahamas for $99. Finally, I was contacted by the vice-president of a bank in Burkina Faso, who wants to transfer 18-million U.S. dollars into my bank account. After all this bad news, my attention turned to fractals and the day started to improve. These fractal ogives appear to be everywhere in the HyperMandel- brot set. I found the strangely scalloped one that appears in the background of today's image hiding in a nest of concentric circles in a bud in Seahorse Valley of the large minibrot on the negative X-axis of the Mandelbrot set. I named the image "Infernal Landscape". It does have a kind of hellish aura about it. Then I rated it at an 8-1/2, including, of course, the half-point bonus for my coloring, which makes the entire image. And actually, I feel it's one of the best colored FOTD images to date. The downside is the calculation time, which runs to over 1/2 hour on the fastest computers. I hate to think of the time required to calculate the image on an older machine. But like the bad news I got this morning, all bad news has a bright side, and today's bright side lies on the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> where the finished image is posted for quick and total satisfac- tion. Monday began with 1/2 inch, 1cm, of light snow here at Fractal Central, but the snow ended as fast as it began, and by midday, when the temperature reached 39F 4C, it had completely melted. The fractal cats observed all this with disinterest. For me, most of the day was routine, which left ample time to work on the fractal coloring and earn the extra half point. Tomorrow will likely be a repeat. Until then, take care, and how many fractals does it take to change a light bulb? Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= Infernal_Landscape { ; time=0:38:17.15-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=HyperMandelbrot2 passes=1 float=y center-mag=-1.76838718877224100/+0.002032313175440\ 55/5241100/1/-86/0 params=0/0/0/0/0.1/0/1e-012/0 maxiter=12000 inside=0 logmap=-1955 periodicity=0 colors=000CWhCWgCWgCWgCWgCWgCWfCWfCWfBWfBWfBXeBXeB\ XeBXeBXeBXdBXdBXdBXdAXdAXcAXcAXcAXcAXcAYbAYbAYbAYb\ AYb9Ya9Ya9Ya9Ya9Ya9Y`9Y`9Y`9Y`9Y`8Za9Y`AY`AX_BX_BW\ ZCWZDWYDVYEVXEUXFUWGTWGTVHTVHSUISUIRTJRTKQSKQSLQRL\ PRMPQNOQNOQONQONPPNQPMPQMPRLORLPSLOSLOTLNUKOUKNVLO\ VLNWKNWKMXLMYLLYLLZLKZNK_MJ`MJ`NIaMIaNHbMHcMGcLGdL\ FdLFeKEeKEfJDgJDgIChJChKBiLBjMAjNAkO9kP9lQ8lR8mS7n\ T7nU6oV6oW5pX5qX4qX4rX3rX3sX2sX2sX2sX2tX2tX2tW2tW2\ tV2tV2uU2uU2uT2uT2uS2vS2vR2vR2vQ2vQ2vP2wP2wO2wO2wN\ 2wN2xM2xM2xL2xM2xM2xM2vN3uO4tO5sP6rP7qQ8pR9oRAnSAm\ SBkTCjUDiUEhVFgVGfWHeXIdXKcYMbYOaZQ__SZ_UY`WX`YWa_\ VaaUbcTceScfRdgQdhOeiNfjMfkLglKgmJimIjmHjmGkmFknEm\ oCnpBnqAor9os8qt7ru6rv5sw4sx3ty2tz3tz3tz3tz3tz3vz3\ vz3vz4vz4yz4xz4xz4xz4xz4xz5xz5yz5yz5yz5yz5yz5yz6yz\ 6yz6zz6zz6zz6zz6zz7zz7zz7zz7zz7zz7zz7zz7zz9zzAzzCz\ zDzzFzzGzzIzzJzzLzzMzzMzz } frm:HyperMandelbrot2 {; periodicity must be turned off a=(p1),b=(p2): q=sqr(a)-sqr(b)+pixel, b=(p3+2)*a*b+p4, a=q, |a|+|b| <= 100 } END PARAMETER FILE=========================================