Title: Flower Power V Post by: Pauldelbrot on January 04, 2010, 08:37:37 AM (http://u5789.direct.atpic.com/28590/0/1672886/1024.jpg) (http://pic.atpic.com/1672886/1024) 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 (http://www.fractalforums.com/images-showcase-(rate-my-fractal)/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:
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) |