shuriken_800_5.jpg

Shuriken with 5 x 5 anti-aliasing

This one looks sort of like a shuriken or throwing star. It was synthesized by repeatedly building a line fractal and doubling the number of arms.

For a general method that forms a line from a Mandelbrot set fractal see Line Method.

The parameter file used to make the image:

Shuriken { ; Exported from Fracton.
 ; time = 14 min 48 sec at 640 x 480 with no aa
 ; on a Mac Pro 2 x 2.8 Ghz Quad-Core Xeon
 ; by Mike Frazier, public domain
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 609375e+75/1/-21/0
 params=0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0 maxiter=16000 inside=0
 proximity=0
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