Help recreating a fractal

[GoneWest]

Hi this is my first post on here. I've been using this image on some of my music accounts such as Youtube and Soundcloud and i am interested in making my own high resolution version to use in videos / album covers.

I have no idea where i found the original and i have edited it a bit in Photoshop. I know the Mandelbrot set is one of the most common to create but i really like the simplicity of this one and the spikes coming off it.

Any help would be much appreciated thanks!

 

[AtomicZagnut]

Ever use Processing?  It's a free, open-source programming language designed specifically for artists with little to no coding experience.  You can get it at http://processing.org.

Included in the IDE is plenty of example code, including one that renders a black-and-white Mandelbrot set.  Though the image rendered is small, a few tweaks to the parameters and you can make it as big and hi-res as your hardware can handle.  The example is in File > Examples > Topics > Fractals and L-systems > Mandelbrot.

If you do know something about coding and want to re-create it in another environment, this example code should give you a good idea how to program a fractal.

Best of luck!

[asimes]

I would agree with AtomicZagnut, Processing is how I learned to program the Mandelbrot set and all other fractals I can make after. Daniel Shiffman's examples on Mandelbrot are quite good: http://processing.org/learning/topics/mandelbrot.html

The image in the link is not as nice as the one you posted, but after you understand why it works smoothing it is not a big hurdle.

[GoneWest]

Ok thanks a lot you two i will give Processing a try. Loving the fact that it's open source too!

Most of the ones i have seen have the smooth curves like in your link. I will have to work out how to get spikes, i'll post my results if i have any luck.

[cKleinhuis]

this should resemble it, adjusting the color gradient will give you what you wanted, you should be able to render high resolution with chaospro

its one of the most basic orbit trap shapes  

Code:

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[GoneWest]

Thanks a lot cKleinhuis!

[cKleinhuis]

my pleasure