Starburst

[Pauldelbrot]

This stunning Supernova Julia set image took two and a half days to generate.

The small grey zones go to infintiy. The orange areas belong to a "normal Antimatter" attractor of period 44. The red filigrees are the basin of the "zero attractor" of Supernova, here bifurcated to period 41 and then doubled to period 82.

High iterations combined with the need for aggressive antialiasing caused the long compute time.

Detailed statistics:
Name: Starburst
Date: April 5, 2009
Fractal: Supernova Julia set
Location: a = 0.51803398, b = -0.0971535 - 0.0662777i, c = -5.8803356 - 2.4411029i
Depth: Shallow
Min Iterations: 4
Max Iterations: 48,856
Layers: 3
Anti-aliasing: 3x3, threshold 0, depth 2
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Calculation time: 54 hours (2GHz dual-core Athlon XP)