Glass Caterpillars

[Pauldelbrot]

A Matchmaker II Julia set with two attractors; one basin colored by generic convergent smoothed iterations and one by phi angle.

This is just a first glimpse of the astonishing beauty to be found in this mapping-family's Julia sets.

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Detailed statistics:
Name: Glass Caterpillars
Date: May 7, 2009
Fractal: Matchmaker II Julia set
Location: a = -0.4474860862 + 0.2186859769i; b = -0.9951321 + 0.10822714i.
Depth: Very Shallow
Min Iterations: 91
Max Iterations: 7546
Layers: 2
Anti-aliasing: 3x3, threshold 0.0, depth 2
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Calculation time: over 2 hours (2.5GHz dual-core E5200)