Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:  

Finally, after all these years, we have a FOTD that rates a double 10.  And it took an invasion of flying saucers from outer space to earn this astounding rating.  My first impulse was to name the image 'Saucer Invasion', but then I decided to give the aliens the benefit of a doubt, and not automatically assume they are war-like creatures.  I finally decided that the aliens are here on nothing more threatening than a galactic convention, and named the image "Saucer Convention".

The art rates the holy grail of a 10 because after hours of working on the 48-colors of the palette, I finally got the image to appear almost 3-D photographic.  The math earns the same rating because I have no idea what is going on with the math, which appears to have something to do with both Mandelbrot images and Newton's method of finding roots.  This could well be the only FOTD that will ever be posted rating a double ten.

The flying saucers are all made of some burnished hi-tech copper-colored metal.  Some of them resemble huge flying kettledrums, while others resemble thin, flattened dish-like craft, barely able to hold an intelligent alien.  It's anyone's guess what the inhabitants of the saucers might look like.

The saucers must be mother ships carrying fleets of smaller craft.  How else could the many smaller groups flying in formations be explained?

The image takes 3-1/4 minutes to calculate, which is likely a lot less than the time it took the saucers to reach the earth from their home worlds scattered throughout the galaxy, if not the universe.

The partly cloudy sky, chilly north winds and temperature of 57F 14C were fine for spring gardening here at Fractal Central today, though not quite so good for the fractal cats, who were unhappy about the chill and waited for the sunshine to become dependable, which never happened.  The fractal humans were in kind of a down mood.  The next FOTD will in all likelihood be posted 24 hours from now.  If not, it will appear in 48 hours.

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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