FOTD -- October 02, 2007 (7) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: To create today's image I took Z^2, mixed in 2 parts of Z^(0.75), added straight C and let it rip. The resulting fractal is a Mandelbrot set that is cut off on the southeast side, but has lots of extra action in the northwest quadrant. This extra action involves many additional filaments and holes of various shapes and sizes. Today's scene is located near a larger but still tiny minibrot in an ambiguous valley of a large hole northwest of the main period-2 bud. I call the valley ambiguous because it appears to hold Seahorse as well as East Valley features. I named the image "East Horse Valley to emphasize this ambiguity. When it came time to rate the scene I turned generous. The rating of a 7 seems a bit liberal, but why not reward myself for an acceptable image created on a bad workday. The calculation time of 5 minutes on a 2000mhz fireball is within reason. On a 200mhz snowball the scene takes close to 1/2 hour to complete -- still barely within the bounds of reason. The most reasonable way of all to see the fiery image however is to visit the FOTD web site at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> and view it there. A near perfect day here at Fractal Central on Monday went unno- ticed by the fractal cats, who spent the better part of the day sulking at each other for something only they know about. My day was spent trying to straighten out a job that came in in a state of total confusion. (If a customer doesn't know what he wants, how am I supposed to give it to him?) It took mostly a few lucky guesses to get that job out of the way. The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and could the popular interest in fractals finally have run its course? Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START PARAMETER FILE======================================= East_Horse_Valley { ; time=0:04:56.66-SF5 on P4-2000 reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandAutoCritInZ function=ident passes=1 center-mag=-1.47584661761365700/-0.074900264193136\ 27/5.431817e+012/1/42.578105516759706/0.0023852665\ 8395731006 params=1/2/2/0.75/0/0/0/0 float=y maxiter=1550 inside=0 logmap=550 symmetry=none periodicity=10 mathtolerance=0.05/1 colors=020P1SQ3SR5SS9STBSUDTVGTWITXJTYLTZNT_PT`RTa\ STbTTbTRbXQb`VbgZbncbugbvkbwnbxrbys`ztYzuTzvQzwMzx\ HzyFzzDzzDzzDzzBzzBzzBzzAzzAzzAzz8zz8zz8zz8zz8vz8r\ z4tz2vz0xz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zz0zx0zv0zr6tlD\ ngMjcTdY``VhZRqUKsUGsYDs_9sU5sR3sP2sL2sI2sF2sC2q92\ m62j32g22e22`22Z22Q22F2782KD2GJ2FO2DT2Bb29h27g95mD\ 2qJ2sO2sU2s`2sd2sk2sp2sh2sc5sZDsUMsPVsKbsFlsAts5xj\ 2lT6YBHK0S70d20n20l20l20j20j90hF0hM0fT6f_BdeHdmObt\ TbxZ`xe`xj`xoZxqXxsXrsVgsSYsSRsRGsP7sP2sN2sN2sH2sD\ 2jA2`62T22M22B2S42S02S02S02S02S02S02S02S02S02S02S0\ 6S0BS0HV0NW0SY0Z_0RD0J26Dp0Bp0Ap08p06p04p02p02p02p\ 025022022F22g2Gs8Ws4Om2Gb2BT23J22A22022022OLYRJVVH\ RXFMXFKXDGXBDbBBmA7q83s82s62s42s42s22s22s22s22s2Fs\ 2Is2Ms2Rs2Vs2Ys2bs4es6js8ms8rsCwsGysKzsOzqSzsWzs_y\ sczsczsczsczsczsczsczsczsczsczsczsczsczsczsczsczsc\ zsczsczsczsczsczsczsczscz } 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=========================================