Fractal visionaries:

Today's fractal, named Filigree, is a rather attractive scene featuring a midget in the YZ plane of the Z^2.015 mandeloid.  The midget itself isn't much to look at, hardly more than a misshapen hole with ragged bands stretched across it, but the decoration around it is spectacular.

When I first saw it, I was reminded of that delicate, lacy ironwork I so admired when I visited New Orleans a few years ago.  Thus the name.  Actually it's a scene between the split negative tail of the parent figure, which is quite attractive in this same area in both the Mandelbrot and Julia planes.

I have such interest in fractals because I realize that exploring fractals is as close as I will ever come to exploring an unknown world.  Like most of us in the middle-age group, I was born too late to explore the unknown regions of this world and too early to explore the great unknown beyond.  But I'm just in time to explore the world of fractals, which is as real to me as the scenes the little rover is sending back from Mars.

So go, little rover, go, and keep sending back those pictures which are inspiring the children who one day will launch out into space on the greatest expedition mankind will ever know.  As for me, I'm going to keep my eyes on my monitor and continue to find those elusive fractals.

Today's image has been posted to alt.binaries.pictures.fractals and alt.fractals.pictures, where those who can't tear themselves from the Mars rover can pick it up in a hurry.

For tomorrow, maybe I'll post a Newton's fractal.  I don't know.  I'll decide when the time comes.


Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com


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