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- From: shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff)
- Newsgroups: sci.fractals
- Subject: Re: julia sets of c*e^z
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 19:52:12 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <1992Nov11.182309.8811@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov11.182309.8811@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mccasal@nyx.cs.du.edu (Massimo Casal) writes:
- >when must i stop the iteration when i calculate the julia set of c*e^z?
- >when the real part is > value?or when the modulus is >value?
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- The stopping limit for c*e^z is problematic, since an extremely large value
- of z can get mapped back to something small. The second problem is that
- your floating point can overflow very quickly. The usual stopping point is
- real part > large value (note: not abs(real part)), since this implies the next
- iteration will be extremely large. The disadvantage is that you will stop
- for some large values where you shouldn't. The visual appearance is that
- the many thin petals will suddenly clump together into one thick petal, when
- they should remain as thin petals.
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- Ken Shirriff shirriff@sprite.Berkeley.EDU
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