A kaleidoscope image created from a 3D Mandelbrot set fractal rendered in FractalWorks, a high performance fractal renderer for Macintosh which is available on the Mac app store.

If you have FractalWorks you can recreate this plot by clicking the link below:

Fractalworks plot squiggle kaleidoscope

Here are the settings for this image:

Document name: squiggle kaleidoscope
Fractal type: mandelbrot
Plot size (w,h): 1105, 1105
Maximum iterations: 25000
Center Point (real, imaginary): -0.840284684978, -0.224056447833 i
Plot Width (real): 1.96E-10

Plot uses DE: Yes
Plot uses fractaional iterations: Yes
Plotted with symmetry: Yes
Plotted with boundary following: Yes
Plotted with multiple processors: Yes
Total plot time: 9.133 seconds
Total iterations: 4243103724
Iterations/second: 464573400
Pixels skipped: 9566
Iterations skipped: 239150000
Percent of pixels calculated: 99.2
Percent of iterations calculated: 94.7

Plot height: 0.1
Peak steepness: 0.1
Plot flipped: Yes
Camera x: -0.126
Camera y: -0.002
Camera z: -1.8
Ambient light: 0.4
Directional light: 0.6
Specular light: 0.4
Surface shininess: 20
Light x direction: 0.341
Light Y direction: 1.02
Light z direction: 1.02
Background color red: 204
Background color green: 204
Background color blue: 204