Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's image, the fourth in the Seahorse Valley series, is a repeat of the thing I did in yesterday's image.   But in today's image it is taken to the extreme.   The Julia set of the valley is obvious.   It fills the entire frame.   But there is something quite unusual in the image.

That brilliant diagonal line across the central bay is the Mandelbrot aspect of Seahorse Valley magnified a thousand or so times.   In today's image it looks like a featureless line, but all the detail of the deepest parts of the valley is in there.   Tomorrow's image, which is incredibly slow and already cooking, will show a surprising bit of this detail.

The image is a fireball fast one, though it is still always fun to surf out to the FOTD web site at:and enjoy the finished product there.

FL has a way of asking questions that activate my philosophical tendencies.   On Wednesday she casually asked if science believes in ghosts.   I replied that science is not an intelligent being.   It is a rational way of gaining knowledge and determining truth.   It doesn't believe or disbelieve.   Its philosophical standpoint is materialistic and therefore it tries to explain things on a material basis.

I explained that most scientists consider ghosts to be natural phenomena or psychological images in the physical brain.   This assumption reduces ghosts to the material level.   Science does not consider ghosts to be surviving spirits of the dead because it has no way of objectively studying spirits.   But this does not imply that science denies the existence of human spirits.   Perhaps spirits are fractals, things that also have no physical existence!

Rain fell steadily most all day here at Fractal Central on Wednesday, while the temperature fizzled out at 59F 15C.   The fractal cats took a quick glance at the outside conditions and settled down for another two-hour nap.

My day was not too busy, but rather frustrating.   The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours.   Until then, take care, and if you see a ghost, your brain did it.


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

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