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Here I present: Not Your Usual Circles

This location, 92 zooms in at the following coordinates:


produces the following image:

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles.png)

Which I like as it has a lovely colour, great detail and doesn't have circles of endless detail (for a change).  I found it using Kalles Fractaler 2 and rendered the image with 3xAA in Fractal eXtreme.

Just lovely!

Thanks.

I couldn't believe when I created the palette how much detail it revealed.

Certainly took my breath away for a minute.

An interesting image, and does have detail.     :D
 
 

Here's the next instalment of this series.

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 02.png)

hi simon! really a beautiful picture - love the palette!

that's a great idea, to use kalles fraktaler for searching a nice spot and then moving to fractal extreme to render.
I tried, but don't have a clue how to get the ..E.. zoomnumber into a ^2 number. I'm more into fractals then in math -and yes, I see the irony ;)
could you please tell me how you do this, to get to the same location?
and do you try to transfer the palette as well or search a new one in fractal Xtreme?

regards,
chilli

Hi Chilli

I have no idea how to convert the zoom number into a power of 2 either.  All I do is type in 100, 200, 300 or whatever then hit the up or down controls to get the same E number as it says on the other one.

I don't really like the palette editor on Kalles Fraktaler (it's ok, just not very easy to create smooth palettes) so I only worry about it once I'm in Fractal eXtreme where I load one of my own or set up a new palette to get the most out of the location.

One thing I've noticed (maybe it is just me but who knows) is that the image from KF to FX is flipped on the imaginary axis. E.g. a spiral in the top left in KF is at the bottom left in FX.

Who's right?  How could anyone tell? :-)

Number 3 in the series:

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 03.png)

If you have: 4.952e+027, that's 4.952x10²⁷  in base 2 it's: 2^log₂(4.952x10²⁷).

log₂(x) = log(x)/log(2)  with log the natural log

log₂(4.952x10²⁷) ~= 92

To calculate required zooms in FX from a known zoom in KF, use this formula:

zooms_FX = log₁₀(zoom_KF) * log_e(10) / log_e(2)

So, for example, if we have a magnification of 32 in KF, the required zooms in FX are given by:

zooms_FX = log₁₀(32) * log_e(10) / log_e(2) = 5

This also gives the same result as Roquen calculated for the first image in the thread.

To calculate required zoom in KF from known zooms in FX, use this formula:

zoom_KF = 10^(zooms_FX * log_e(2) / log_e(10))

So, taking the same example, 5 zooms in FX, the required zoom in KF is given by:

zoom_KF = 10^(5 * log_e(2) / log_e(10)) = 32

I too noticed the flipping on the imaginary axis in KF. KF is incorrect; easily confirmed by zooming into the top bud of the main cardioid then displaying the Set Location window (which then shows a negative imaginary component for the image centre, whereas it should be positive). When setting a specific image location in KF, I just reverse the sign when entering the imaginary component in the Set Location window. It's such a trivial workaround, I've never bothered flagging the problem to Karl.

Nice images Simon. Great locations and colours.

John.

Thanks for the nice comments.

Always nice to be appreciated.

Number 4 in this series:

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 04.png)

Number 5 in the series:

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 05.png)

Your images are just lovely and amazing.
Your "glowing" colors are different from the other masters here and makes a very nice variation.

To get from power of 10 to power of 2, simply multiply with 3.3 :)
Standard double-float-based calculators for calculating log won't work anyway when zooming deeper than e300

Number 6 in the series:

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 06.png)

We're getting closer to another 'tear' in the fabric...

Thanks for the great reviews.  I welcome feedback, both good and bad, so I can work on what needs to be made better.

I'm certainly getting a bit more clued up in how to find interesting Mandelbrot areas, as they are the ones that show the nicest detail.

Number 7 in the series:

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 07.png)

Feels like this one seems alive, somehow.

On to number 8 in the series:

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 08.png)

these pics of yours get better every day ;) the coloring is fiting nicely and the structures come out very well!

Thanks, CK, and they're also not putting any great strain on your server as the images are hosted on my own server, too!

(Which is great unless my server disappears off the web like it did for a couple of hours the other evening)

hosting considerations are basically no more relevant today, we have 50 gigs available since halve a year :D, nevertheless, the posting limit in the gallery serves the purpose to limit image spamming :D

Here we have... Number 9 in the series.

There is a lovely cross in the middle of this image.

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 09.png)

Number 10:

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 10.png)

This one's simply delightful.  I love it.

That's beautiful, nice work  :)

Many thanks.

Legs eleven (11) in the series (I like playing bingo):

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 11.png)

Another cross shape.

Number 12 in this series:

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 12.png)

We're into a red/green/blue phase here.

No 10 is very nice. How many zooms between the images?

Well, I don't know how it happened but number 10 is an imposter from a different area of the Mandelbrot.

Image 09 is at 291 zooms
Image 10 (the imposter) is only a modest 120 zooms
Image 11 is at 318 zooms

Must have had something else happen to the real number 10.  I'll have to investigate...  Might find number 10 changes in due course.

Number 13 in the series next:

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 13.png)

I love how this one has a different feel to it due to there being quite a few double spiralling arms.

Here we go with number 14 in the series:

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 15.png)

Number 15.  Double blobs connected with fine columns.

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 16.png)

Definitely appears that the Mitosis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitosis) process is in full swing here, since the replication is almost complete with the separation of its cell nucleus into two identical sets.    :D
 

Thankfully you provided the link to Wikipedia, otherwise I wouldn't have had a clue what you were saying.

I agree with you on the cell division thing.  Maybe, the image is similar to what cell structure looks like in the microscopic world.

Number 16 in the series, a lovely 8-legged shape...

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 17.png)

On to number 17.

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 18.png)

An intricate cross shape.

Next image is number 19 (I had to skip one of the files before and it was out of sync so I've now got it back - hence no number 18):

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 19.png)

We're now in to 4-fold rotation.

Haven't updated these series for a while so here goes.

Next image, we get to number 20:

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 20.png)

Number 21 of the series:

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 21.png)

Now on to green hues as we hit another interesting area.

On to number 22:

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 22.png)

Lots of wispy fuzzy areas around a spiralling centre.

On to image number 23:

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 23.png)

A number of intricate spiral galaxies and spirals.

On to image number 24:

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 24.png)

Another intricate set of spiral galaxies and spirals with a green hue.

Next image number 25:

(http://www.needanother.co.uk/uploads/Not Your Usual Circles 25.png)

An 8 pronged ring with ornamental pillars and scroll work in the middle of spirals.

I was going to pick the first in the series as my favourite, but 5 has stolen it away.