Alien II

[Pauldelbrot]

A Matchmaker II Mandelbrot slice with b in a period-3 bud. This is fairly typical of in-bud Mandelbrots: the fractal is divided into two regions, one in this case resembling the content of triple spiral valley and one resembling an inverted M-set with the "outside" basin broken up into domains. There is also a small S-shaped region of black points near the boundary between the two: no stable attractors exist for these parameter values.

These types of Matchmaker II fractal tend to compute slowly, being plagued by high iterations. Fortunately they rarely require aggressive antialiasing.

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Name: Alien II
Date: March 4, 2009
Fractal: Matchmaker 2 Mandelbrot slice
Location: a-plane; b = -0.55129540468 + 0.85464075601i
Depth: Very Shallow
Min Iterations: 87
Max Iterations: 994030
Layers: 2
Anti-aliasing: 3x3, threshold 0.1, depth 1
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Calculation time: 2 hours (2GHz dual-core Athlon XP)

[bib]

Great picture! Full of various areas worth zooming in.
In the left side of the S-shape, 2 buds from the opposite sides seem to touch each other. I would love to see a zoom on that area.

[Pauldelbrot]

Thanks. That's doable, though it might be a week before I get around to it.