Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:

While reading Mike's description of his Elephant Valley 3-D animation, I noticed that he saw no elephants in the area.  In today's image the lost elephants have been found.

The image is a blow-up of a small section of the FOTD image for Sep 27.  And it is filled with elephants.  True, the elephants appear quite different from the standard ones in East Valley of the M-set, but they are definitely there.

The most recognizable elephants lie around the upper arch of the large open area.  They appear to be arising as hollow outlines from the depths on the left, arching over the open area, giving a mighty trumpet, and then diving back into the depths on the right.

But turn the image upside down.  There are more elephants hiding in the 'outside' stuff below the open area.  They are rather distorted, but unlike the upper elephants, they are filled with much detail.

Since the image is a near repeat of a recent image, and I reused the same color palette, I could give today's image no rating.

I raised the maxiter to 32767 to better define the narrow high-iteration stripe across the center of the scene.

The name "The Lost Elephants" is a bit misleading.  Actually, the elephants have been found.

The calculation time of 3-1/4 minutes may be more than cut in half by rendering the scene with passes=g, but some smaller detail will be lost.  Rendering with passes=1 gives the best result, but doubles the calculation time.

Torrential rain came in squally bursts here at Fractal Central on Thursday, accompanied by gusty south winds and a surprisingly warm temperature of 77F 25C.  The wind caused an hour-long power outage in the late afternoon, but the work was already finished and little inconvenience was felt.  The fractal cats never noticed that the power went out.  The fractal basement took on surprisingly little water considering the approximately 4-in 10-cm of rain that fell up to 7pm.  My day was spent waiting to bail out the basement, but no bailing was needed.  The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and think positively negative.

Jim Muth
jamth@mindspring.com


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