This plot was rendered in FractalWorks, a free high performance fractal renderer for Macintoshes.

This is a sea horse mandelbrot plot taken from a spot on a tendril of a seahorse on the largest baby Mandelbrot on the real axis.

I gave the plot the same kind of treatment I give fractal flowers, but it has a different effect on this one. I think it makes it look sort of like a star.

The pattern in the center looks rather like a Julia set from seahorse valley, but it's really a Mandelbrot set.

Here is the plot information:

Document name:Sea horse star tie-die
Fractal type:mandelbrot
Maximum iterations:10000
Center Point (real, imaginary):-1.76846786,0.0016275166 i
Plot Width (real):2.83E-07

Color scheme name:TieDye1
Color scheme last modified:2008-07-18 23:01:51 -0400
Plot uses DE:Yes
Plot uses fractaional iterations:Yes
Plotted with symmetry:Yes

Plot height:0.8
Peak steepness:0.4
Plot flipped:No
Camera x:0
Camera y:0
Camera z:-2
Ambient light:0.3
Directional light:0.6
Specular light:0.1
Surface shininess: 10
Light x direction:-1
Light Y direction:1
Light z direction:0.6
Background color red:204
Background color green:204

If you have fractalWorks 5.0 or later you can recreate a 2D version of this plot by clicking here:

Fractalworks plot Sea horse star tie-die