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This is the only image in my collection that was not created
with FractInt (although I'm told it could have been). It was
created with a custom program, with some post-processing done
to composite the final image. So here's a little bit by way
of explanation...
The colors in this image are standard iteration-based colors.
The shading, though, represents accumulation of orbits. As
each point on the screen is iterated through the Mandelbrot
function, a series of z values (z[0], z[1], etc.) is created.
Rather than simply throw these values out, my custom program
tracked each of these and determined which locations were
visited most frequently. Popular areas are light, and unpopular
areas are dark. Because the image accounts for points from
all over the Mandelbrot set, zooming is difficult. But it's
neat-looking.
Unfortunately, the original image is a 1024x768 24-bit image.
I don't have a program that can JPEG this image without
mangling it (lossy compression really irritates me) so if
you'd like the original image (a 211K ZIP containing a 2.3M
Targa), click here. Sorry
the above GIF doesn't look so spiffy - rather than recalculate
the image at 320x240 resolution I just scaled down the original
picture and converted it to 256 colors. Bleh.
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