1986... was the year when I first saw a Mandelbrot fractal as a 12 year boy. My mind was blown by the fact that these patterns are truly infinite, and I imagined that we would maybe in the future be able to go deeper than the images in the magazine showed.
But I never found out the formula until about 10 years ago, and then I did a small program based on the double data type and amused myself zooming to e13. I imagined how fun it would be to create an arbitrary precision class to be able to go deeper but thought it would take too much time.
But a couple of years ago I searched YouTube and found zooms down to e300. My mind was blown again, and it encouraged me to realize the ap class. Almost a year later I was able to make some deep zoom movies myself.
And then I found this forum, read K.I.Martin's post and my mind was blown again.
It is therefore very rewarding that this guy, who's movies once blow my mind, made a movie with my program:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAA7jWDCZiE(Which also movies from Panzerboy and Dinkydau did
)
Unfortunately this movie shows a new glitch that I have also encountered. When 'standard' smoothing method is used, that is using a high bailout value, and a different main reference is selected for a view, the color of the whole view sometimes get slightly different. It is shown as growing rectangles in the movie. Maybe the 'equipotential' method is better for movies even though it does not create as good smooth effect as 'standard'...