Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: 

It's come!  It's the end of the world!  This is it!  There's no tomorrow!  Today is doomsday!  Armageddon!  The Apocalypse!

Nostradamus was right!

All this doom rolled into one! . . .

. . . etc.

. . . Ah nuts!

The hour has passed.  It was all a media scare tactic.

What a disappointment!  I have seen nothing happen that could be considered out of the ordinary in even the slightest degree, except that darkness seems to be falling unusually early lately.  I believe the precise moment of doom was 11:11am EST, or 16:11pm GMT.  But that time has come and gone, and the world is still here.  The apocalypse was a flop.  The Mayans were wrong.

So let's move on to the fractals.

In today's image the strange rectangle has totally vanished as predicted.  Only a few traces of yellow mark the spot where it was last seen.  Actually, the rectangle still exists in its full glory -- elsewhere.  It is we who have changed our view of it and moved on.

The name explains itself.  If I had rated the image, it would have had the lowest rating in FOTD history -- most likely a 2.

Luckily, the image is very fast.  It finishes in only 30 seconds.

The parameter file for a second image is included with this FOTD.  The name "One from Doomsday" shows the spirit of the departed rectangle happily floating through the ethers of wherever good fractals go when they die.  Those who do not believe in spirits may bypass this second image.

The day began wet and windy, with a temperature of 50F 10C.  The rain ended during the morning, but the clouds remained and the temperature dropped fast in the afternoon, reaching freezing by 4pm.  A few flurries of snow fell later in the day, though the ground remained only wet.  The fractal cat passed the day watching the world go by; the humans spent the day thinking of the holidays.

The next FOTD will be posted in around six days, around December 27.  There is simply too much to do here at FC to keep the FOTD going uninterrupted through the holidays.  Until whenever, take care, and the next doomsday (fiscal cliff) is only ten days off.

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net

START PARAMETER FILE=======================================

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frm:SliceJulibrot4   {; draws all slices of Julibrot
  pix=pixel, u=real(pix), v=imag(pix),
  a=pi*real(p1*0.0055555555555556),
  b=pi*imag(p1*0.0055555555555556),
  g=pi*real(p2*0.0055555555555556),
  d=pi*imag(p2*0.0055555555555556),
  ca=cos(a), cb=cos(b), sb=sin(b), cg=cos(g),
  sg=sin(g), cd=cos(d), sd=sin(d),
  p=u*cg*cd-v*(ca*sb*sg*cd+ca*cb*sd),
  q=u*cg*sd+v*(ca*cb*cd-ca*sb*sg*sd),
  r=u*sg+v*ca*sb*cg, s=v*sin(a), esc=imag(p5)+9
  c=p+flip(q)+p3, z=r+flip(s)+p4:
  z=z^(real(p5))+c
  |z|< esc }

END PARAMETER FILE=========================================