Just wanted to say hello to all, and much thanks to this forum as I began writing my own mandelbrot script in matlab because I was bored. This forum helped me out a lot when wikipedia could only take me so far.  I just figured I would post a few pics of what my m-file can do so far.  Heres one where I thought the color looked pretty cool



I played around with some normalization and ended up with this



After a while I decided to play around inside the m set so I used the normalized iteration counts inside the m set to render this one

This last pic begs for palette scrolling, aka oldskool plasma.

Colour cycling is done within the fractal program du jour and, as far as I know, only with indexed images. That means that each pixel in the image does not represent an RGB colour, but is the number of a colour within a colour map/palette. Colour cycling cycles the colours in the colour map/palette while quickly redrawing the pixels of the image but NOT recalculating the fractal...

Easier to show:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/d6smebGPBuw&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/d6smebGPBuw&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

Notice how only the appearance of zooming is given, but the fractal image itself never changes.

It will take me a little while to color cycle because my script assigns each pixel an RGB value, but I did use some trig functions in the pixel mapping so I could just put it another variable that will drive the trig functions and write an image for each iteration...but while I work on that I have been playing around inside (stopping the outside coloring at relatively low iteration and allowing the inside to iterate for really long times) and I have come up with some interesting pics... heres one of my favs


I will be zooming inside these to see what shows up as well

here's rough try to use existing plasma code (needs better palette)