June 27, 2012: A Deep Creep | June 26 | June 28 | 2011 | FOTD Home |
Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:
Well,
I see that the
FOTD rating is again going down. I'm not sure why.
Sometimes the world of fractals seems to have a will of its own, and
despite my best efforts, it refuses to produce a fractal that is even
close to great. I guess it's what artists call a lack of
inspiration, though I hardly consider myself a fine artist.
Today's image rates a merely average 7. We have seen many
similar
images in the past, and this holds down the rating. I did put
a
bit of extra effort into the coloring, but the result failed to be
worth the usual half-point bonus.
Perhaps the most impressive thing about today's image is not the image
itself, but the parent fractal it lies in. This parent is not
only oversized, it is immense, requiring a magnitude of 0.0008 to fit
it on the screen. This parent is actually a very distorted
Mandelbrot set, rotated 180 degrees, with East Valley on the west side
and the infinitesimal main spike on the east side. It
resembles
an open figure eight with rounded areas of debris lying both north and
south of the main bay. Today's scene lies on the southeastern
edge of the southern area of debris.
I named the image "A Deep Creep". Who knows why I gave it
such a
name. I, for one, certainly do not.
The calculation time of 1-3/4 minutes is fast enough to avoid
impatience, yet slow enough to give ample time to enjoy the fractal
generation.
A mix of sun and clouds with a temperature of 82F 28C made today near
ideal for those at Fractal Central, both humans and cats. The
cats had a fun day hiding in their squashable cat cubes, and the humans
had fun when the work went well.
The next FOTD is on the way! If all goes well, it will be
posted
in 24 hours. All does not always go well however, so there is
no
guarantee. If the next FOTD is late, most likely all did not
go
well. Until whenever, take care, and "the scientific method",
which I once considered almost a religious doctrine, now seems as
awkward as the flounderings of a troupe of first graders trying to
perform "Hamlet". (No, I do not have anything better to
offer. My opinion is that it would take attributes far above
mankind's puny intelligence and the laws of logic to solve the riddles
of existence. No wonder rational science tries to ignore the
really big questions.)
Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net
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