It looks like a Mandelbrot to me.

SMcA · Jun 11, 2015

Cruising the nebula clusters, rim ward. I noticed this structure.
Is Z[SUB]n+1[/SUB] = Z²[SUB]n[/SUB] + C the true meaning of life?

dannywhac · Jun 11, 2015

I'm not going to say what it reminds me of. Suffice to say, if I'm out walking my dog and he's in front of me with his tail up wagging because he's smelled something........

Rauminen · Jun 11, 2015

It's a fair assumption. How about 42?

SMcA · Jun 11, 2015

dannywhac said:
I'm not going to say what it reminds me of. Suffice to say, if I'm out walking my dog and he's in front of me with his tail up wagging because he's smelled something........

You don't think that it is the dog's testes, then?

dannywhac · Jun 11, 2015

SMcA said:
You don't think that it is the dog's testes, then?

I do

Although mines not got any anymore.

b0rg9 · Jun 11, 2015

Yeah I can see it.

Used to play with fractint all the time on DOS decades ago. Was cool letting zooms plot overnight or sometimes for days. I still have the GIF's saved.

I liked that it let you plot them on a sphere. Here's my "waterworld" made on a 386 around 1990 or so...

SMcA · Jun 11, 2015

b0rg9 said:
Yeah I can see it.

The image I posted is the best view. I've got a few others from different angles.

Used to play with fractint all the time on DOS decades ago. Was cool letting zooms plot overnight or sometimes for days. I still have the GIF's saved.

That takes me back a few decades. I've got some animations I made of the Julia set at 640 x 480 that must have taken days to render.

I liked that it let you plot them on a sphere. Here's my "waterworld" made on a 386 around 1990 or so...

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I used to export the images to PovRay and render them as height fields.
Nice image.

drkaii · Jun 12, 2015

Wow, what a geek. You have my rep

Neokortex · Jun 12, 2015

I read somewhere that frontier used a lot of real locations of stars/systems and the rest is "somehow complicated random calculated" - probably mandelbrot since its most realisticlooklike

SMcA · Jun 12, 2015

Neokortex said:
I read somewhere that frontier used a lot of real locations of stars/systems and the rest is "somehow complicated random calculated" - probably mandelbrot since its most realisticlooklike

You think so?
I would have thought Fractint's Plasma fractal would be more appropriate.