The name "Hidden Minibrot" is not the name of an upcoming Chinese movie. It refers to the minibrot at the center, which does not become visible until a magnitude of 10^100 is reached. Actually, I have already been down there, and can report that the minibrot has potential.
Another great image Jim thanks for posting it. I did some exploring in the image and I noticed there was an interesting looking spot in the middle of each "dog paw". By dog paw I mean one of the eight things radially around the center at about half the distance from the center to the edge. I zoomed in on this point and sure enough there was eventually a minibrot there too. This minibrot was much deeper than the one at the center of the original image and was at a zoom of 6e140. While zooming in, I saw the same radial dog paw feature similar to the original image repeat a few times but I also saw another form that was interesting. This other form looked somewhat like the center flower but radially repeated around the center. This feature appeared twice that I saw. Once with two radial and once with four radial flowers. The four radial flower case was at a zoom of about 4e129. Here is a link to the image I saw and the parameter file if case anyone would like to draw it. http://web.me.com/gigagraphica/fimage/hm_nne_4f_640_2.jpg HM_NNE_4F { ; Exported from Fracton. ; Pan zoom of Jim Muth's FOTD for Jan 25, 2011 ; Four radial flower structures ; Time= 8 min 30 sec at 640x480 with no aa ; on a Mac Pro 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Xeon reset=2004 type=mandel passes=1 float=y center-mag=-0.199999999999999557058847463761634676\ 03589032865221287975190794248519602192032643927978\ 65376643116130105709369624387184033914204596458515\ 20514357068914437e1/0.6630176288067109207228491501\ 35614581281374177036634497680988945568125312580901\ 20173145399514382361392341899625563996837845746132\ 8899124740897907243244464e-94/4.102564153846154e+1\ 29/1/0/0 params=0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0 maxiter=35000 inside=0 colors=000SegQciPbjOakN`lM_nLZoKXpJWqIVsHUtGTuFSvE\ BIHDLKEONFROGSPHTQIU00URKWS0XTKYT0ZUO_VP`VQaYUYaYU\ wdppcgjbZdaQZ`HDT4LX7T`9`dBhhEplGxoIczERfK6`jFLPzz\ ce_CazfN63SBAWGH_DF_LN_SV__b`ij_fi_di_bhZ`hZZgZXgb\ Qm`TjZVgYYdW_aUbZTdWRgTXZGMhOLkLJnIIqFGtCFw9Ez6Mp7\ Tf7_X8fN8mD9t49r5Cq5Fp6Ho6Kn6Nm7Pl7Sk7Vj8Xi8_h8bg9\ df9ge9iUaOIz2Ty9czGnqNxmTnePdYLVQILIEBABR_GSaKSbOT\ cSTdVUeZUfbVgfVhi_ghdfhiehnehhajcZlZVnTSpOOrJLtEIu\ JOpOUlTWhYYdbk`gqXlzTmtWnrYnp_onapldpjfqhhqfjndkkb\ liamf_ndZoaXp_WqXUrUSsSRtPPuNOvKMwKMwFJUDIUFMUHPUJ\ TULWUN_SPbLQiDNeDLaEJUEGPFEMGCKGAIH7HI5GI3FJ1EJ30F\ 50B708A07C07EA6GF6JG6LI5NJ5PL4SM4UN4WP3YQ3_R3`NJaJ\ YaGlcHjdIheIffJdhJbiK`jK_kLYmMWpMUrNStNQvOOxONzY`m\ hmsghd_bX40O40G40840ZJEXHDSFDZDCeBBlKBsUAzcAuUEoKI\ jAMdCQ_ETVFbRHrMJzIKzKMzMOzOQzQSzSUzUVzWXzYZz_`Uab\ ObcMmWLzOLzGKz9KzdWze_zec } If you want to see the final minibrot you can change the zoom to 6e140. The two radial flower case was at a zoom of 5e117. I was going to make a deep zoom movie of this but it would have taken weeks of computer time to render enough anti-aliased frames to make it interesting. -- Mike Frazier www.fracton.org