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Dec. 7, 2012: Flowering Numbers Dec. 6 Dec. 9 2012 FOTD Home
  Rating 7.5

flowering numbers

Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: 

Today's image would normally have rated another 7, but I put enough color effort into it to raise its rating to 7-1/2.  The outer blue shades create a serene heavenly effect, while the wildly colored inner elements add a carnival atmosphere.  Actually, most of the color work was done by the Fractint program when I struck the 'enter' key while the program was in color cycling mode.

The image itself shows a scene in a satellite minibrot of the parent fractal that comes about when 100 parts of Z^(10) are combined with 0.1 part of straight Z on each iteration before straight C is added.  This parent is a 9-lobed Mandeloid with unique variations in each lobe and a tiny disconnected minibrot not too far west of the lobe on the negative X-axis.  Today's image is located in the East Valley area of this tiny minibrot.

The name "Flowering Numbers" came about when the multi-colored elements surrounding the compulsory central minibrot appeared to me to be a flower drifting in celestial space.

The calculation time of 1-1/6 minutes is a bargain, but it is still necessary to set up the parameter file.

The day began with freezing rain and icy roads here at Fractal Central.  By mid-morning the temperature sneaked above freezing, melting the ice, but a cold rain with a temperature of 39F +4C continued for the rest of the day.  The fractal cats found comfortable places to spend the afternoon.  The humans made it through another in a near endless series of similar days, with nothing to complain about.

The next FOTD will be posted in the right cosmic time.  Until then, take care, and everyone agrees that there is more emptiness between two galaxies that are one-million light years apart than between two galaxies two-million light years apart.  The question is how there can be different amounts of nothing.

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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frm:MandAutoCritInZ {; Jim Muth
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g=1/f, h=1/d, j=1/(f-b), z=(((-a*b*g*h)^j)+(p4)),
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z=k*((a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f)))+c,
|z| < l }

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