Symmetry in ChaosAre you also sick of the spiral arms of the Mandelbrot set and the ever repeating patterns of all the other fractal images? Then this program might be something for you. It calculates fractals using a method first described in the book "Symmetry in Chaos" by Michael Field and Martin Golubitsky. This method takes a point on a plane feeds it into an intricate formula resulting in a new point on the plane. The colours of the pixels on screen are calculated using the number of times the pixel gets "hit". It's not the only program that can calculate this kind of images but it's the best that I know of. In contrast to the other programs I'm aware of this program really counts the number of times the pixel gets hit and not uses the graphic memory to count. Also the given palette gets scaled over the whole range of the hit counts. The end result are beautiful images like this one.
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ExamplesFinally some more examples to show the beauty and filigree of the generated images, enjoy. These images were calculated without the new oversampling feature
OversamplingThe program can oversample the result, which leads to much smoother results. Here is a comparison of an enlarged part of the image 9 above. On the left you can see a 4 times oversampled image and on the right is the one without oversampling.
Why are these wrong colored pixels at the outer edge of the figure? This is because the edge passes only over a small part of these pixels and thus the probabiliy that they get his is very smaller than it should be and so the pixels are colored as if they have a very small hit probability What is done to avoid this is that the fractal is internally calculated with a 4 times higher resulution and then the pixel in the output is calculated using the average of 4x4=16 pixels. This is of course much slower and requires 16 times more memory, but out of all 16 pixels only a few will be colored wrong and the averaging will suppress tese wrong colors The number of oversamples is, of course, not fixes, 4 is just an example. Here is the complete image so you can compare it as a whole. Again, the left is the oversampled and the right is the one without oversampling DownloadDownload the source code from my project page.ContactIf you find bugs, want to send in new parameters, have suggestions for improvements or if you want to help improve this program don't hesitate to use our mailing listThanksThank you goes to all the people out there who sent me bug reports and praise. But ecspecially to
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