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This image is obtained by zooming into Scepter Valley, locating the central square structure in a scepter which centers on a minibrot, finding a seahorse in that minibrot's Seahorse Valley, zooming repeatedly at the crown of the seahorse and then eventually into another square to find a microbrot, then off the tip of its spike a ways towards an eventual nanobrot (invisibly tiny, centered).

The color gradient comes from a smoothed iterations layer; a 25% opaque black-on-white distance estimator layer provides the fine structure details as darkened forms. (The distance estimator uses a greyscale: distance beyond one pixel is transparent white, shading to opaque black with the logarithm of distance between 1 pixel and 0.00001 pixel, and opaque black within 0.00001 pixel.)

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Detailed statistics:

Name: Protist
Date: October 10, 2009
Fractal: Mandelbrot
Location: Seahorse Valley of a minibrot in Scepter Valley
Depth: Deep (40 decimals)
Min Iterations: 14,738
Max Iterations: 50,287
Layers: 2
Anti-aliasing: 3x3, threshold 0.10, depth 1
Preparation time: 2 hours
Calculation time: 8 days (2.5GHz dual-core E5200)

Center (real) = -1.253158991382101862015428940072419308948876875
Center (imag) = 0.0465041177528568340812740951913710672012226894
Mag = 7.7257158E34 (on a scale where a mag of 1 results in an image side length of 3).