Mandelbrot Safari LXXXVIII: Unending Detail

[Pauldelbrot]

Mandelbrot Safari LXXXVIII: Unending Detail



http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=15176

The very deep (more than 10³²⁰) Mandelbrot Safari minibrot in all its glory. 7x7 antialias. Black points in the minibrot do not escape after over 54,000,000,000 iterations (yes, that's 54 billion, with a "b"); the whitest points immediately around it take at least ten million. Rendering took three weeks, but it would have been three years without a sophisticated speedup that exploits a regularity in the Mandelbrot set's behavior near deep minibrots. (It's probably possible to get this in three minutes, now, using a perturbation theory renderer with a good reference point or three, though!)

[Dinkydau]

It remains an amazing picture.

[Pauldelbrot]

Thanks!