Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

Today's image is named "Rainy-Day Minibrot".  I gave it this name because the image was resurrected from my 'reserve' files -- older images that I hold in reserve to recall when laziness attacks as it did on Tuesday.

The image shows a minibrot of order 2.05 located near the negative X-axis of the parent fractal that results when the formula Z^2.05+C is iterated at a level of a measly 0.12 turn up the log spiral with the 'recip' function applied.  This parent is shaped almost exactly like the minibrot.

Since the image is an older one and I put almost no new coloring effort into it, I could give it no rating.  But if I had rated it, I would have given it a rating around a 5.5.

The calculation time is a very zippy 36 seconds.  Calculation may be avoided however by viewing the finished image at:

Total heat and humidity prevailed here at Fractal central on Tuesday.  When the temperature reached a high of 95F 35C the fractal cats retired to the cool tile of the bathroom floor, where they spent the next several hours.

Meanwhile the humans took things easy in their own way.  FL checked to see that the garden was well watered, while I relaxed with a fractal.  The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and the current issue of 'Time' magazine has an article about the tendency of people to look at the bright side of bad events instead of the realistic side.  I have not yet had a chance to read the article, but it is probably irrelevant.  I am certainly not guilty of looking at the bright side of bad things.  (I'll have more to say about this in an upcoming FOTD.)

Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net


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

Rainy-Day_Minibrot { ; time=0:00:36.64-SF5 on P4-2000
  reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=basicer.frm
  formulaname=MandelbrotBC3 function=recip
  center-mag=-1.372754717265681/+0.02681174574841239\
  /4.650326e+011/1/7.5/0 params=2.05/0/0.12/0 float=y
  maxiter=1500 inside=0 logmap=67
  periodicity=6 mathtolerance=0.05/1
  colors=00080UC1UG2UK3UO4US7UWAU_DUcGSgJRzePzYOyRNs\
  OLmLJhIHbFGYBES9CPEBRIAVP9ZZ8ea7ha5md3rg4zf4zd4d04\
  d04e04f05f05g05g05h05i05i06h06c06Z06U06P06K07zU0zU\
  0zU0zU0zU0zS0vQ0sO0pN0oMBoLCoKDoJEoIFoHGoGHoFIoDJo\
  BKoCLoCMoCNoCOoCPoCQoDRoDSoDToDUoDVoDWoDWnGVnIUmKU\
  mMTmPSlRSlTRlVRhVWdV_`VdXVhTVmPVqLVvIVzHVvGVrFVnEV\
  jDVfCVbGSaKPaNN`RK`UH_YF_`CZd9Zg7Yk4Yn2Ym3Xm4Wm5Wl\
  5Vl6Ul7Uk8Tk8Tk9SKgeKfcKebKd`Kc_KcZKbXKaWK`UK_TK_S\
  KZQKYPKXNKWMKWLPXKTYJYZIa_Hf`GjaFnaFpcHqdJreLsfNtg\
  OuiQvjSwkUxlWymXdg_LbbKcaJdaJeaIe`Hf`Hg`Gg_Fh_Fi_E\
  iZEjZDkZCkYclYcmYcmXcnXcoXcoXcmWckWcmVcmVcmVcmUcmU\
  cmTcmTcmTcmScmScmRcmRcmRcmQcmQcmQmzPmzPmzOmzOmzOjz\
  NkzNmzMnzMpzMqzLszLtzLmzQmzUmzZzzbzzgzzkzzmzznzzoz\
  zmzzlzzkzzjzzhzzgzzfzzezzdzzbzzazz`zz_zzZzzXzzWzzV\
  zzUzzTzzRzzQzzPzzOzzNzzLzzKzzJzzIzzHzzKzzNzzQzzTzz\
  VzzYzz`zzczzfzzhzzkzznzzq }

frm:MandelbrotBC3   { ; by several Fractint users
  e=p1, a=imag(p2)+100
  p=real(p2)+PI
  q=2*PI*fn1(p/(2*PI))
  r=real(p2)+PI-q
  Z=C=Pixel:
    Z=log(Z)
    IF(imag(Z)>r)
      Z=Z+flip(2*PI)
    ENDIF
    Z=exp(e*(Z+flip(q)))+C
  |Z|<a }

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