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Info created & uploaded by Wolfgang Beyer - nominated by JovanCormac- Info A highly detailed zoom into a Mandelbrot fractal, part of a zoom series. This picture perfectly combines beauty and chaos, the aspects fractals are known for, and is intended to replace this as a Featured fractal picture, which I nominated for delisting below. Even the layman will find the picture positively mesmerizing, while the math enthusiast will appreciate the well-described parameters which allow for reproduction of the image in any fractal software whenever needed. Featured on EN already.
Support As nominator. -- JovanCormac 06:28, 21 September 2009 (UTC)- Support, my new desktop wallpaper. Airwolf (talk) 08:11, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
- Support Great colour and detail, but I see no reason to replace the old FP. --Tony Wills (talk) 09:14, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
- The old one uses an outdated coloring algorithm with steps rather than gradients. Modern fractal software allows for smooth shading, better illustrating the changing "escape velocities" of the divergent series associated with a point. Also, the old picture does not use antialiasing, giving the fractal boundaries a jagged appearance at full size when the mathematical truth is quite the opposite (arguably, the antialiased one looks better, too). -- JovanCormac 09:23, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
- Strong Support Wow! Amazing! Jacopo Werther (talk) 10:18, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
- Support Yann (talk) 11:02, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
- Support--Mbz1 (talk) 14:12, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
- Support--Korall (talk) 18:41, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
- Support It's very beautiful although it's quite subjective to evaluate which fractal to chose if you have to select among several. But looks better than one nominated for delisting. I remember when I first was introduced to fractals and became interested in them and set up my computer to generate one. I think it took my poor computer 3 full days to generate an image which was not even a tenth as good as this one, and my computer could not be used for anything else while doing that computation :) That was > 15 years ago though… /Daniel78 (talk) 22:35, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
- Yeah, those were the days ;-) But not just computers weren't as advanced back then, algorithms weren't, either. One of the things that make the candidate look so much better than many other fractal images floating around is the use of the Normalized Iteration Count Algorithm (or probably a variant thereof), which avoids color bands and gives the fractal its characteristic, multi-colored "glow" while adding fractal structure to the Mandelbrot set's exterior. Also, wonders can be done by choosing a good color palette. Doing so is often the key difference between an amazing and an ordinary fractal. One of the advantages of using commercial fractal software like Ultra Fractal (the program that was used to make the candidate image) is that those packages usually come with well-tuned color palettes, which instantly make the fractal look "richer" and more interesting, even though all fractal software uses more or less the same algorithms. -- JovanCormac 06:57, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
- Support ■ MMXXtalk 02:51, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
- Support --Böhringer (talk) 10:40, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
- Support -- Jean-Pol GRANDMONT (talk) 10:15, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
- Support --Brackenheim (talk) 19:19, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
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