Friday Fractal LV: Roland's Rings

Hi! My mom has been busy this week, getting ready for vacations and back-to-school, so she let me do the Friday Fractal this week. I like making my own fractals, because they are always different, sort of like taking a picture. I made this one, and then showed it to Mom. She said I made "a Mandelbrot set using Carlson Orbit traps, named for Paul Carlson, who developed the original textures and parameters for the coloring algorithm." That’s right.

Here it is:

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I’d like to call it "My First Mandelbrot Set".

This one was neat, because it looks like it is made of circles, but it goes everywhere! John Carlson made a lot of cool things that I could put into this fractal, different shapes and colors. I chose to color it blue because that’s my favorite color. I liked the silver against it, because it makes it really easy to see the curvy lines.

My mom helped me paste this fractal and write this post. We made the fractal using ChaosPro.

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Note from your fractalist: Sorry, folks, this one is a day late. I discovered early yesterday that my old website had been hacked. It has been fixed, now, although I plan to eventually remove everything from there, and repost it here somewhere.
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Today, you can create your own fractal. (Don't worry, I'll still include one of my artistic fractals at the end of this post.) You don't need to download any programs, or learn any new techniques.
Something about climate change makes people want to argue. Take Greenland, for instance.

Pretty amazing for a first of anything. Cool work, Mr. Roland!

That is one cool fractal, Rolls. Good Work!

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