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FOTD -- January 28, 2004 (Rating 8)
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Actually, the midget looks as though it could use a few more
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iterations. This could easily be done, but if I raised the
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maxiter, it would mess up the color palette, which is what
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really makes the image.
Jim, I tried
raising the maximum iterations to 10,000 as I prefer well
iterated,
clearly defined midgets.
And true to your promise -- some
of the colors
changed in the center 1/4 of the image.
I too like the image
coloring better when the midget is underiterated.
But as I said, I
prefer well
iterated
midgets.
Is there a way for me to have my cake and eat it
too?
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My experience when
adding iterations to an inside=0 fractal is
that a few
more black pixels get colored in as they escape
prior to the new
higher maxiter value. I don't remember seeing
existing pixels
change color.
I assume
that by "mess up the color palette" you mean that some of the
image *data* changed when
maxiter was increased and thus got mapped to
different colors... (Color palettes remain
constant entities unless
specifically changed -- which I did not
do.)
If my assumption is
right, why do those pixels change color (iteration
count)? <---<<
In your image,
presumably they were assigned a color because they
escaped at an
iteration count less than your maxiter=2400. Why would
those
pixels escape at a different iteration count when maxiter was raised?
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- Hal Lane
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