Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Even with its half-point bonus for the coloring, today's image is nothing to write home about.   The parent fractal resembles a Julia set with a grossly enlarged Mandelbrot bud in the background.   In the southeast corner of the parent lies a prominent spiral.   Today's image shows that spiral with stripes added, plus one of the smaller but much-enlarged Mandelbrot ghost buds lurking in the background.

I posted the image after trying for almost an hour to bring it to life, with very little success.   I named the image "Stripes in Sight".   One look at the image will explain the name.   I have done many images of this type over the years, and most of them are notably better than today's.   The maxiter of 32,767 is barely adequate for the ghost-bud effect.   A maxiter of something like 200,000 would improve the definition, but it would also almost double the calculation time.   Oh, what the heck.   I think I'll go ahead and raise the maxiter to 200,000.

The calculation time has now been raised from 10 minutes to just under 17 minutes, which is far too slow for an image of such questionable quality.   I strongly recommend sufing to the FOTD web site at:and viewing the finished image there.

Too much of a good thing prevailed here at Fractal Central on Monday.   The temperature of 93F 34C combined with an unbroken hot sun made for heat that sent the fractal cats searching for the coolest place they could find.   With the cool air vents in the living room not yet producing cool air, the cats chose to lie on the cool tile of the bathroom floor.

My day was very close to average.   Most likely, tomorrow will be the same.   The next FOTD, a much-improved one without doubt, will be posted in 24 hours.   Until then, take care, and be at peace with your iterations.


Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com
jimmuth@aol.com

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