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A Seahorse Odyssey XV



http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=10077

A narrow bridge connects two spirals at the heart of the vortex.

Thanks.


I wouldn't call it "plain", but yes, it's a standard Mandelbrot image. Center real is

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606912055906247338271069404862512531231545468945515729727030510445753305

and center imaginary is

0.001981705794935468985289373790545402531063853144119459282873482523659439814777439231287267824354443565523883262826974 12373625670934354222851111806643148448793142972155154744872441376655884525

which is inside an extremely tiny vendekobrot. The center of the bridge contains a microbrot that's bigger than the vendekobrot by more orders of magnitude than the observable universe is bigger than a bit of Planck foam. The vendekobrot is off the tip of a filament near the microbrot's nose, surrounded by an assortment of twisted shapes embedded in a foam of seahorses. Even "vendeko" isn't quite the right prefix for it. But it's a tiny-size prefix, much smaller than "pico" or "femto", and as far as I'm aware nobody has a proper unit-prefix to represent a relative scale of 10^-166...

That image took perhaps a day. At the leading edge of the sequence they're taking around three. But I'm rendering them at 12000x9000. Which means the images in the gallery are effectively 10x10 nonadaptive antialiased -- very good quality, as I'm sure you've noticed (very little noise and no moire even in the seahorse centers).

The deeper depths will take much longer, but I hope to have upgraded hardware (four to five times faster!) by then. I'll also be able to use the existing hardware to render some things.