Self-similar Dragon

[Dinkydau]

Mandel Machine, Mandelbrot set

This Dragon has self-similarity. It contains smaller copies of itself, although less evolved ones. In a perfect world we would be able to zoom infinitely deep and achieve a true self-similar version, at least up to the accuracy constraint imposed by the number of pixels.

This is the original Dragon I had in mind when I made Dragon (surface version). This is almost literally a continuation. The difference is that this one has 5 arms instead of 4, which required more depth for the same number of iterations of the zoom steps. I thought it would be too difficult to render, so I made Dragon (Deep version) first, which is a simpler version without self-symmetry. I also dug through some of my older stuff that I could reuse. I made use of the same initial patterns as in Evolution of S shapes and I based my gradient on it as well.

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