Bengt Månsson in Sweden continues his deepzooming explorations. The following images form two series of zooms into the Mandelbrot set, starting just "behind" the main mini-MS at around -1.74.
The pictures form two series, starting with the same 8 pictures, and then "bifurcating". The first 6 pictures just serve to show the area of investigation and, for that reason, I send them only in preview.
The iteration numbers go up to 60000 which is a little low for the last picture cou24b, but I send it anyway since the calculation time is well over 200 hours (Pentium 90 MHz). Those not satisfied with the somewhat bad resolution at the edge of this last mini-MS can, of course, recalculate it with, say, 120000 iterations. But then they will have to wait for 500 hours or have a faster computer than I do.
The name "cou*.png" comes from the artvark gallery, where I got the idea for this investigation.
The first 6 pictures just serve to show the area of investigation, and cannot be downloaded in full screen size. The first one shows the largest mini-MS of the Mandelbrot set.
The succesive zooms are around the centre of the previous picture unless otherwise indicated. Total magnification and maximum number of iterations are given.
Comments: This series forks into two separate directions at this point.
Branch A
starts from the centre of COU8.
The rectangular box to the left indicates the position of
branch B.
Follow these links to continue these zoom sequences.
The hilighted images above can be activated to bring 800x600 pixel versions of the image to your screen.
