March 21, 2012: Cat's Cradle | March 20 | March 22 | 2011 | FOTD Home |
Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:
The
FOTD is late
again. So what else is new?
Today's image is named "Cat's Cradle". I gave it this name
when
the intricate network of filaments reminded me of the
string-between-the-fingers pastime that so often kept me occupied as a
child, when I had nothing else to do and had not even imagined fractals.
The scene lies on the X-axis of its parent fractal, which is a
Mandelbrot set so infected with Z^3 energies that even on its surface
it is beginning to change into a cubic Mandeloid. The exact
location is inside a valley that juts from the west into the second bud
out the X-axis.
There is little else to say about the image except to invite all
fractal fans to sit back and enjoy it.
The rating of a 7.5 has been raised from the 7 of an earlier version of
the same image, which I changed because it had too much of a sickly
green hue to it.
The calculation time of a mere 20 seconds will pass in a flash, but the
resulting image will be fully gratifying.
A pleasant mix of puffy clouds and brilliant sun made today an
enjoyable one here at Fractal Central. The temperature of 70F
21C
fully pleased the fractal cats, who spent the afternoon lounging in the
sunlight. The humans had a day of minor political
disagreement
over what to do about the high cost of energy.
The next FOTD will be posted in 12 hours, give or take a few.
Until then, take care, and let's stop complaining about minor things
like gay people getting married and the damage being done by hydraulic
fracking, and start worrying about huge things like the potentially
deadly pollution caused by motor vehicle exhaust in the large
cities. (And I'm still waiting for proof of the safety of the
radiation emitted by cell-phone towers and by the wireless devices that
so many children are addicted to.)
Jim Muth
jimmuth@earthlink.net
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