Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

A busy day means a late FOTD.  Wednesday was unusually busy here at Fractal central, so the FOTD is late.

Today's image lies in the parent fractal of yesterday's image.  It is located in the Seahorse Valley of a distorted minibrot on the main stem of the parent, very near the point where the stem joins the main body of the Julibrot fractal.

I named the image "Not a Julia Thing".  On the surface it resembles an everyday Julia set, but it actually lies in an orientation rotated halfway toward the Mandelbrot direction, making it something for sure, but not a pure Julia set.

The rating of an 8 includes a full point for the extra effort I put into coloring the image.  The coloring creates the better part of the overall effect.

The calculation time of over 1-1/2 hours that is listed in the parameter file is some kind of timing bug that sometimes appears in the fractal computer after I run the ancient 'WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS' program, which I still use after all these years.  The actual calculation time is around 2-1/2 minutes.  It's too bad the bug doesn't make the fractals calculate as fast as it makes the clock run.  (While the bug was in effect, the calculation time for an hour-long fractal was listed as 'a very long time'!)

The finished image may be seen by running the included *2-1/2* minute parameter file or by viewing it on the FOTD web site at:

       http://www.Nahee.com/FOTD/

Total sun and an unexpectedly warm temperature of 61F 16C kept nearly everyone happy here at Fractal Central on Wednesday.  The fractal cats actually had a bit too much sun in the afternoon, and retired to the bookshelves in the hallway.

My day was quite busy, yet satisfactory, which is all I could hope for.  The next FOTD will probably be posted in 12 hours.  Until then, take care, and when all those predicted technological wonders finally arrive, will they be for everyone, or only for the wealthy?

Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com


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

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  formulaname=SliceJulibrot2 center-mag=-0.944342858\
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  /0/-0.75/0/0/0 float=y maxiter=5000
  inside=0 logmap=614 periodicity=6
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  2Is0Bs0Bs0Bs0Bs0Bs0Bs0Bs0Bs0Bs0Bs0Bs0Bs0Bs0Bs0Bs0B\
  s0Bs0Bs0Bs0Bs0Bs0Bs0Bs0Bs }

frm:SliceJulibrot2   {; draws most slices of Julibrot
  pix=pixel, u=real(pix), v=imag(pix),
  a=pi*real(p1*0.0055555555555556),
  b=pi*imag(p1*0.0055555555555556),
  g=pi*real(p2*0.0055555555555556),
  d=pi*imag(p2*0.0055555555555556),
  ca=cos(a), cb=cos(b), sb=sin(b), cg=cos(g),
  sg=sin(g), cd=cos(d), sd=sin(d),
  p=u*cg*cd-v*(ca*sb*sg*cd+ca*cb*sd),
  q=u*cg*sd+v*(ca*cb*cd-ca*sb*sg*sd),
  r=u*sg+v*ca*sb*cg, s=v*sin(a),
  c=p+flip(q)+p3, z=r+flip(s)+p4:
  z=sqr(z)+c
  |z|<=9 }

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