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A Seahorse Odyssey XXI



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At the hub of a spoked wheel made of seahorses, a minibrot is revealed. But this is only one more mile marker along the road to our destination...

Thanks!

Depth about 10²³ -- not especially deep yet.

Rendering time was around a couple of days, but that was for a 12000x9000 image that was downsampled to produce this. Ten megapixels gets a lot of quality but it isn't cheap in processing time!

Current ones are taking maybe three days, at 10³⁰ and the same resolution.

But I'm also sometimes using the CPU for other things.

The center coordinates were picked in an exploration session weeks ago. For that I was rendering at a measly 200x200 and even then for the deeper parts it was taking several minutes to get a good enough preview to target the next zoom.

At this point, you may be wondering why I zoomed into the minibrot on the axis and not the main seahorse valley. It is, after all, costing about 10 bits of precision and tripling the iterations all just to apparently add that nifty hairiness to the spiral arms. Is that worth it?

Well, it most assuredly is, but mainly for reasons that aren't going to become apparent for a bit longer...