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A Triple Matchmaker Julia set with two attractors. The coloring algorithm used simply applies lighter and darker versions of a shade to alternate iteration bands, and biases the shade further depending on which attractor captures a point. It was actually intended as a "test coloring" that would provide quick one-layer previews of triple matchmaker images while performing "mutational" searches for interesting Julia sets, but in this case it gave nifty, 60s-style psychedelic results and I felt the need to render this fractal with the test coloring. A version with a normal color scheme also exists: Flower Power VI.

This fractal also exploits jittering of the pixel coordinates in combination with antialiasing. The results are superior to and faster than with more aggressive antialiasing but no jitter. Here's a comparison:

Antialiasing only	Weaker antialiasing with jitter

Freely redistributable and usable subject to the Creative Commons Attribution license, version 3.0.

Detailed statistics:

Name: Flower Power V
Date: February 24, 2009
Fractal: Triple Matchmaker Julia set
Location: a = 1.624515347 + 2.017357269i; b = 1; c = 1; d = 0.
Depth: Very Shallow
Min Iterations: 32
Max Iterations: 3735
Layers: 1
Anti-aliasing: 3x3, threshold 0.0, depth 2
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Calculation time: 1 hour (2GHz dual-core Athlon XP)