Zooming deeper into the center of Shut Eye doubles the number of arms.

This fractal was synthesized by repeatedly zooming into specific areas in order to create a line of repeated features. For a general method that forms a line from a Mandelbrot set fractal see Line Method.

The parameter file used to make the image:

Spike_Star { ; Exported from Fracton.
 ; time = 10 min 52 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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