Greg M. Johnson wrote in message <3A5487CE.BC74CB31@my-dejanews.com>...
>Chris Huff wrote:
>
>> It *is* a fractal, though that may not be immediately obvious by the
>> result, and to have infinite complexity would take an infinite amount of
>> calculation time. That's a problem. :-)
>> You could probably do what you want by increasing the octaves of the
>> function as you zoom in. Similar to what you need to do in order to zoom
>> far into a mandel pattern.

>
>Actually, in my Mandel and Julia zooms, I needed an exhaustive color_map,
but
>*never* changed the pattern itself: only the camera angle changed in those
>anims

As I understand the Heteromf pattern, the "octaves" setting is the
equivalent of the iterations of a Mandel or Julia pattern.

--
Mark

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