Dragon IV

[Pauldelbrot]

Values of a near 0.5 generate seahorse-valley-esque Julia and Mandelbrot features in Antimatter and Supernova. Here, the Supernova perturbation parameter causes the lake attractor to drift away from zero and bifurcate. Its period is 3 but the seahorse-valley constraints on the shore line shape forces the lakelets into sinuous shapes composed of chained basin components.

The c-plane Mandelbrot in the vicinity of these parameters is especially fascinating; expect a zoom sequence posted soon.

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Detailed statistics:

Name: Dragon IV
Date: February 20, 2009
Fractal: Supernova Julia set
Location: a = 0.51803398, b = -0.001679 - 0.163504i, c = 3.558345735 + 2.957442605i
Depth: Very Shallow
Min Iterations: 4
Max Iterations: 525
Layers: 1
Anti-aliasing: 3x3, threshold 0.1, depth 1
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Calculation time: 2 minutes (2GHz dual-core Athlon XP)