By far the deepest feature I have ever rendered, this zoom drives my concept of Xs made up of Xs one step further by performing a periodic doubling on my previous effort, XXX Cold Fusion Cell:
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I rendered this image over 2 weeks time (Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.6Ghz, 4 cores, 64-bit calcs) ending on October 17th, 2010. The original render was intended to be an enormous 4800x1800 pixels, but after 2 weeks, the job was suspended at 25.4% completion. The resulting image was scaled in Gimp to 2400x900 using "nearest neighbor" option to remove redundant pixels. I originally intended to finish this render someday, but over a year has past since. Also, due to a software bug, all iteration data past 6.25% has been corrupted, so I don't feel like re-rendering it.
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Mandelbrot, Zoom level 2^-2431
238,457 iterations per pixel average
Each large X consists of 4 arms, each containing 16 X-chromosomes.
4 x 16 = 64
There are seven large X formations. Additionally, there are 2 tiny fragments each containing 32 X-chromosomes, one on either side of the feature. This makes a grand total of 512 tiny X-chromosomes!
(64 x 7) + (32 x 2) = 512
Comments, favs appreciated!
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I rendered this image over 2 weeks time (Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.6Ghz, 4 cores, 64-bit calcs) ending on October 17th, 2010. The original render was intended to be an enormous 4800x1800 pixels, but after 2 weeks, the job was suspended at 25.4% completion. The resulting image was scaled in Gimp to 2400x900 using "nearest neighbor" option to remove redundant pixels. I originally intended to finish this render someday, but over a year has past since. Also, due to a software bug, all iteration data past 6.25% has been corrupted, so I don't feel like re-rendering it.
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Mandelbrot, Zoom level 2^-2431
238,457 iterations per pixel average
Each large X consists of 4 arms, each containing 16 X-chromosomes.
4 x 16 = 64
There are seven large X formations. Additionally, there are 2 tiny fragments each containing 32 X-chromosomes, one on either side of the feature. This makes a grand total of 512 tiny X-chromosomes!
(64 x 7) + (32 x 2) = 512
Comments, favs appreciated!
Yeah, thanks. The image has been sitting on my hard drive for a year. It's mind-numbingly slow go past 2000 zoom levels. Maybe my next mobo will be an 8-core processor.
..and yet you may find images which take days to render
But them sights that never been seen will among the highly elaborated and filtrated fractal here will come up to light
Keep on the good work 
Thanks, I appreciate it. I've got a top secret project I've got drawn up in my mind, but it will take mounds of CPU cycles.
My very plesure
I've read your note. Hope it will work out well 
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