Algae and Ruby Centerpiece

[Pauldelbrot]

A Matchmaker Julia set from a minibrot in Seahorse Valley of a minibrot inside a large bud. It therefore has two attractors. One, associated with the large bud, has period 11 and produces the green petals; the other has period 1210 and its basin consists of a scattering of tiny nuggets. The big seahorse structures in yellow consist of high-iteration points belonging to the 11-cycle's basin, but showing the filigree structure of the Julia set around a cluster of the other basin's nuggets. These nuggets are found in the double spirals in the "algae".

The period-11 attractor's basin gradient is light green to dark green to orange-yellow to yellow to white, smoothed iterations. The period-1210 attractor's basin gradient is reds and greys, phi angle. A couple of the nuggets are barely visible in the 2048x1536 version of the above image. Here is a close-up of one:

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Detailed statistics:
Fractal: Matchmaker Julia set
Location: a = 0.53256 + 0.31163i; b = 0.513618727862071438 + 1.553571837417694547i

Name:	Algae	Ruby Centerpiece
Date:	February 17, 2009	February 17, 2009
Depth:	Very shallow	Shallow
Min Iterations:	803	1683
Max Iterations:	53,699	64,867
Layers:	2	2
Anti-aliasing:	3x3, threshold 0, depth 2	3x3, threshold 0, depth 1
Preparation time:	10 minutes	5 minutes
Calculation time:	6 and a half hours	2 hours (2GHz dual-core Athlon XP)

[Nahee_Enterprises]

A Matchmaker Julia set from a minibrot in Seahorse Valley of a minibrot inside a large bud.   
.......  These nuggets are found in the double spirals in the "algae".

I find the "Algae" image very interesting !!