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Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:
Well,
what do we
have here? It’s not an FOTD, it’s an
FOYD. This
is not a typo, its a new breed of animal. I am now posting
FOYD’s — Fractals of YesterDay. As I
recently
mentioned, I am reworking some of the old images to give my upcoming
web site something out of the ordinary.
Today’s image is a 14-year-old one first posted in April,
1997
under the name Fractal Fern. A comparison of that old image
with
the improved version that I am posting in this FOYD makes it very clear
that some of the old FOTD images have a lot of room for improvement.
Since the work on the web site will leave little time to find new
images, I will post some of the old ones that have been significantly
improved by a second effort. But I cannot honestly call the
old
images ‘Fractals of the Day’, so I have decided to
call
them ‘Fractals of YesterDay’.
The latest news about the soon-coming web site is that FL has agreed to
help me get it up and running when she has the time. In
return I
will include on my site a link to her pet project — a
word-search-puzzle site — and she will do the same on her
site. Fair is fair.
My present plans are to post simple 640x480 images, along with the
discussions and parameter files. But the images will not be
mere
duplicates of those on the old web site. The images on my
site
will be reworked to bring them up to my present standards. When I get
the site up to date I will resume posting new FOTD images, perhaps in
high definition, but this will be some distance in the future.
Finally, I must state that things are still at a rudimentary
stage. Most likely plans will change as we find out what will
work and what will not.
The weather here at Fractal Central on Tuesday was near perfect
—
total sun and a temperature of 43F +6C. The fractal cats were
quite frisky for some reason, and at one time I thought I heard them
quarreling. My day and FL’s day as well were quite
busy,
mostly working out web site problems.
The next FOYD will be posted in a day or two, whenever I make enough
improvement in some old image to make it worth posting at
once.
Until then, take care, and keep the fractal faith.
Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com
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