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Fractal Movie: Diana's Pinwheels
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About the Fractal Movie (Artistic):
Some dear friends visited me during the very early stages of development of the Fractal Odyssey application. In fact, at the time of their visit, I had only recently persuaded the computer to generate its first fractal for me - the Mandelbrot fractal. My friends were curious as to what I had been up to so told them about my project. As neither was familiar with fractals and as I had not yet figured out how to explain fractals in easy-to-understand terms, I figured a picture was worth a thousand words and so I started up the infant application. After seeing me zoom and shift the image on screen, Diana wanted to try. In just a few moments, she stumbled across the fractal that I have since come to call "Diana's Pinwheels" (the last frame of the movie). In all my work with fractals since, I have not found a fractal that I think is as beautiful as "Diana's Pinwheels". Beginner's luck.
The beauty of the "Diana's Pinwheels" fractal is best appreciated by examining the still image rendered directly by Fractal Odyssey or Fractal Viewer. You can quickly see a small version of the still image by selecting View Larger Image for the "Pinwheels" poster in the Merchandise section of this Web site.
About the Fractal Movie (Technical):
As the animation sequence clearly shows, the "Diana's Pinwheels" fractal is part of the Mandelbrot fractal. The movie starts with the Mandelbrot "bug" at a magnification of 1X and zooms in to a final magnification of 1,500,000X. During the animation sequence the fractals' image centers are being shifted. Both the image magnification and image center continuously vary throughout this movie.
The movie "Spiral Galaxy" features one of the many individual structures contained in the "Diana's Pinwheels" fractal. The spiral structure leading from the Mandelbrot "bug" to "Diana's Pinwheels" is the same spiral structure featured in the movie "Melting".
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