The fresh grass in the new FractoBowl field is a total loss, due to the snow! This is just not supposed to happen here in La Julia, where Dr. J got that very dark tan last weekend. Last night he sent me a set of Fractoscope snow flake images, all having three way symmetry. In fractal space, snowflakes seem to have different shapes, depending on conditions. In the real world, snow flakes have 6 way symmetry (so I'm told, I live only a mile from La Jolla. Using FractalMapper, I found out Dr. J lives about the same distance from La Julia).
Dr. J does not get to see snow except in the higher iteration regions of the most fractal spaces. So when it snowed where he lives, he could not resist gathering samples while at the FractoBall field. As you know, he is not in the greatest of shape and, no body told him collections of snow might be slippery. You guessed it, he slipped and fell on his plus real side. That means he has to file paper work, get details, fill out forms, you can 't even just guess the half of it. Of course he had to get the plans for the FractoBowl stands where he slipped. He thought I might be interested in the blue prints. Indeed I am and I'm passing them along to all of you. Figure 1 shows the overall layout. Observe, at least in these blue prints, the green playing field has an exact sharp boundary where the stands (in blue) begin. See especially Figure 2.
While I am very glad to get the blueprints, I shall be even more interested in what Dr. J discovers if he ever gets around to examining the snow samples. I sure hope they don't melt.
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Figure 1. Dr. J 's blue print of the FractoBall Field.
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Figure 2. Close up of where Dr. J slipped and fell on his plus X axis.
Stay healthy,
Jay
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; Cubic Mandelbrot set fractal, transformed
; Two parameters: real & imaginary perturbations of z(0)
p = exp(Pixel)/sqrt(3), c=p*(1-sqr(p)), z = p1
x=(real(Pixel)<0), iter=0:
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; Cubic Mandelbrot set fractal, transformed
; Two parameters: real & imaginary perturbations of z(0)
p = exp(Pixel)/sqrt(3), c=p*(1-sqr(p)), z = p1
x=(real(Pixel)<0), iter=0:
z = z*sqr(z) + c, iter=iter+1
(lastsqr+5*x*(iter>1)) <= 4
}
BluePrint { ; (c) Jay Hill, 1998
; Blue print of FractoBowl stands (in blue)
; the field is in green
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BluePrint-closeup { ; (c) Jay Hill, 1998
; Blue print of FractoBowl stands (in blue)
; the field is in green
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