;     Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 11:40:13 -0400
;     From: Jim Muth <jamth@mindspring.com>
;  Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 18-05-05 (Taken Too Far [8])
;       Id: <1.5.4.16.20050518114137.29dfbc22@pop.mindspring.com>
; ---------
; 
; FOTD -- May 18, 2005 (Rating 8)
; 
; Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts:
; 
; In today's image we carry yesterday's line of investigation very 
; close to the limit.  We even appear to have taken it too far.  
; We have lowered the exponent of Z to 2.0000005, causing the 
; midget at the center to become squashed.  There is a very good 
; reason the midget looks flattened.  It is not a single midget at 
; all, but rather an overlapping series of narrow slices of 
; midgets that fit together and overlap into a single quasi-midget 
; shape.
; 
; The location of the scene is once again very close to the 
; negative X-axis.  If I had given a bit more effort to the 
; coloring, I might have created an image with a rating of a 9.  
; As it is, the rating of 8 will have to do.
; 
; Perhaps the most striking thing about the image is the irregu-
; larity of the pattern around the midget, which lies in the east 
; valley of a larger midget but shows little signs of being in 
; such a location.
; 
; The image is downright slow.  I must apologize for asking the 
; FOTD readers to donate over one hour of precious computer time 
; to the task of rendering a fractal.  But the image is available 
; in all its rendered glory on the FOTD web site at:
; 
;        <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html>
; 
; The weather remained rather chilly for the season here at the 
; Fractal Central on Tuesday, but all in all it has been pretty 
; pleasant lately.  With the temperature hovering around 68F 20C, 
; the fractal cats enjoyed several hours in the yard, and came in-
; doors without complaint when the day ended.  Today is starting 
; the same, so things again look good for the duo.  The next 
; fractal will appear in 24 hours.  Until then, take care, and 
; the natural numbers would likely work the same in all possible 
; universes, but what about the complex numbers?
; 
; 
; Jim Muth
; jamth@mindspring.com
; jimmuth@aol.com
; 
; 
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