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A zoom into the upper left area of Frost II. Here the lakes have become windows into period-26 basins in the dynamic plane.

The greatly increased calculation time is due to the need for aggressive antialiasing to get the centers of the spirals to look good.

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Detailed statistics:
Name: Twisted Rift
Date: February 19, 2009
Fractal: Supernova Mandelbrot set
Location: c-plane; a = 0.614159265, b = 0.014599 - 0.043795i
Depth: Moderate (9 decimals)
Min Iterations: 45
Max Iterations: 14,089
Layers: 2
Anti-aliasing: 3x3, threshold 0.0, depth 2
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Calculation time: over 3 hours (2GHz dual-core Athlon XP)