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Fractal
visionaries
and enthusiasts:
Today's image takes us back to the center of the largest bubble in the
December 07 image. After a bit of exploration in the bubble's
depths, I found a not-totally-unexpected minibrot surrounded by smaller
bubbles. Since the image lies inside a much larger bubble,
from
which it can never be removed without being changed into something
else, I named it "Trapped in a Bubble.
Today's image shows a minibrot with zigzag filaments shooting off in
all directions and terminating in smaller bubbles. The
smaller
bubbles of course are filled with still smaller bubbles, etc. etc.,
down to the infinitesimal. As the meditating hermit on the
mountaintop told the weary pilgrim seeking truth, it's turtles (in this
case, bubbles) all the way down.
The rating of a 7-1/2 is far enough above average to make the
calculation time of 7 seconds a real bargain. I could have
rated
the image higher, but the main point of the image is the coloring, and
today's coloring trick worked its magic three days ago.
Something
three days old is never as good as when it was fresh.
There is an alternative to running the parameter file and waiting
several minutes, and that is to check one of the following web sites
for the finished image.
http://www.fractal-animation.net/fotd2.zip
http://www.emarketingiseasy.com/TESTS/FOTD/jim_muths_fotd.html
http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/
Even though winter is still 12 days off, Thursday was a typical
midwinter day here at Fractal Central, with partly cloudy skies, brisk
biting winds, and a temperature that rose from a low of 21F -6C to a
high of 32F 0C. The fractal cats appear to have settled in
for
the long haul of chilly conditions.
My day was quite busy, which is both good news and bad. But
the
next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours, and that is certainly good
news. Until next time, take care, and I doubt that anything
truly
supernatural or paranormal exists, but I believe that a vast number of
unknown things such as ghosts and telepathy do in fact exist, and when,
if ever, they are recognized by science, the natural world will be
expanded to include the 'paranormal' things, which will then be seen to
operate by perfectly natural laws.
Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com
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END PARAMETER FILE=========================================