As geocachers we have become adept at exploring the world around us. In order to solve this puzzle you will have to explore a completely different world to find the places pictured below.
| N AB° CD.EFG |
W HI° JK. LMN |
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x = -0.385 y = 0.627
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x = -0.543 y = 0.609
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x = -0.19 y = 1.1
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x = -0.56 y = -0.53
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x = 0.35 y = -0.375
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x = -0.5 y = -0.5
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x = -1.3 y = -0.5
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x = -1.6 y = 0.2
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NOTE: The difficulty rating reflects the difficulty of the puzzle. The cache itself should be fairly easy to discover. It is a medium sized ammo can hidden in one of the usual ways. You can check your coordinates before heading out by sending me a message through my profile.
A Note On Software
In order to solve this puzzle you will have to use a software package to explore the Mandelbrot set. There are many packages which can do this, and while the puzzle has been designed so that it can be solved with any package, some programs have limitations that make them less suitable than others.
Some packages invert the set when it is rendered. This can be fixed by reversing the coordinates above, but it will make identifying the images more difficult. You can verify that a package is rendering properly by examining the LM image.
Depending on the software that you use and how you use it a small offset may have to be applied to the solution values. There is an obvious way to deduce this offset inherent in the puzzle.
I recommend downloading an application to solve this puzzle because client side applications provide a better user interface. If you want to solve it online I have tested this applet and this one, and both render in the correct orientation. The biggest problem that these two applets have is lack of a decent zoom control, but you can zoom in and out using a text field.
The original cache was muggled. I have replaced the container at a slightly different location. The new location is 61 meters on a bearing of 244° from true north from the original location.