A Julia fractal based on a point off of the “tip” of the Mandelbrot set.

A very slight zoom into a Julia set with the stalk option turned on.

I showed this to a colleague and he suggested that’s what it looks like (neurons, that is).

My stepdaughter Jennifer found this one. She browsed to an interesting part of the Mandelbrot Set with Fractal Domains, and then we decided to turn on the “stalk” option and the picture you see below appeared as if by magic. I think this is one of the more dramatic images I’ve generated with …

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…or maybe a better title would have been “Barber Pole on Drugs” (This is your barber pole…now this is your barber pole on drugs.)

One of the first fractals I generated with FracPPC (the former incarnation of Fractal Domains) after adding the stalk method.

This is one of the first fractals from Fractal Domains (or FracPPC, as it was called back then) that I thought was pretty neat. It was an inspiration to continue improving the program. It’s named after my wife, who liked this fractal.