Today's post is a 3D image of a deep zoom into the Mandelbrot set along the negative x axis. The image is one of those familiar ones with rays extending out from a central minibrot. In 3D you can see the rays are made up of areas with lower and higher iterations. The alternating high and low areas kind of look like fingers. The model is set to use the iterations between 124 and 175 so it doesn't show the minibrot at the center. Another thing you notice with the model is that there are iterations between every layer of fingers that are oval shaped. I set the parameters to stop there so the model has an oval cap. It took Fracton 13 minutes to make the model on my 8 core Intel Mac Pro. The 3D image is rendered in Cheetah 3D. Here is a link to a web page with an image: http://www.fracton.org/fmlposts/fingers.html I will also list the PAR file here for people collecting them from the mail list: Fingers { ; Exported from Fracton. reset=2004 type=mandel passes=1 float=y center-mag=-0.199999999999998685104553996193176479\ 99999999684e1/0/0.44899425e28/0.1e1/0/0 params=0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0 maxiter=200 inside=0 colors=CCCNakK_lGYmHZlI_jI_iJ`hKafLbeLbdMcbNdaOe_Q\ e_Se_Vf_Xf`Zg``g`ch`eh`gi`iialjanjaqdXsZSvTNrQLoMJ\ kJGgFEcCC`8AX57T15S48R8AQBDPEFOIIOLLNONMSQLVSKYVJa\ XId_Ha`FZaEWbDUbBRcAOd9Le8If6Fg5Dg4Ah27i14j46j78iA\ AiDDhGFhJHgMJgPLfSNfVPeYSe`UdcWdfYcj`bk`ala_mbYncW\ odUpeSqfQrgPshNtiLujJvkHwlFxmDynBymBylAyjAyi9yg9yf\ 8yd8yc7ya6y`6yZ5yY5yW4yV4yT3xWOjbYXifJppdm5en8fnCg\ oFgoIhpMiqPjqSkrVlsZlsamtdnthouklnghhceaZbVVZORWIN\ SBIP4ET6CW7B_99bB8fC6iE5mG3pH2tJ0rL2pM5mO7kPAiRCgT\ EeUHbWJ`XMZZOX`QVaTScVQdYOf_Pe`RdbSbcTadV`fW_gXYhZ\ Xj_WkaUmbTndRpdSocTmcUkbVjaWhaXf`Yd_Zb__`Z`_YaYYbW\ XcU`fKcWRgMXjBcm0ia1ZP2OQ6PQBPRFQRJRSNRSSSTWTU_TUd\ UVhUVlVWpWWuWXyXap`ghcl_gqRjqQgpOepNboQXnTRnWMmZGl\ aAhdDefFaiIYlKVnNRqPNtSKvUGyXGsbGmhHkiIikJflKdmLbo\ M`pNZqOWrPUtQSupqCppBppBpoApoApn9pn9pm8pm8pl7pl7pk\ 6pk6pj5pj5pi4ph3qe6qb9r_C } -- Mike Frazier www.fracton.org