This old image I upload for my new dear friend darkcloudangel4 [link] here on DA. She’s a talent fractal artist who has uploaded a lot of wonderful images created by Sterlinware please check out her gallery

Magnification in a 2D-slice of the four dimensional cubic parameter space using the standard parameterizing z -> z^3 - 3a^2 z + b, critical points z = +a (making the set M+) and z = -a (making the set M-).

*a_real = 0
*a_imag = 0.3
*b_real = #pixel (horizontal)
*b_imag = #pixel (vertical)

Both M+ and M- are displayed, each in separate layer.

No filters or post processing except resizing (from 6400 x 4800).

Ultra Fractal, formula Cubic Parameterspace3 in the sp3-module written by my dear friend Stig Pettersson, Greenseng here at DeviantART. All his modules, as well as mine can be downloaded from [link]

More info about Cubics can be foud at my Cubic Tutorial [link] and the "cubic" articles in my Chaotic series [link]

Below the parameter file. Play and have fun

HugOfTheMonster {
fractal:
title="Hug of the Monster" width=640 height=480 layers=2
credits="Ingvar Kullberg;8/28/2007"
layer:
method=multipass caption="M-" opacity=35 mergemode=hardlight
mapping:
center=0/1.20598958315 magn=11.195335
formula:
maxiter=2500 filename="sp3.ufm" entry="CubicParameterspace3"
p_PlottedPlane="6.(b-real,b-imag)" p_M=M- p_SetBorders=no p_hide=yes
p_areal=0.0 p_aimag=0.3 p_breal=0.0 p_bimag=0.0 p_xrot=0.0
p_yrot=0.0 p_xrott=0.0 p_yrott=0.0 p_zrot=0.0 p_LocalRot=no
p_diff=no p_bailout=100.0 p_dbailout=1E-6
inside:
transfer=none
outside:
density=2 transfer=linear
gradient:
smooth=yes rotation=1 index=0 color=6555392 index=64 color=13331232
index=168 color=16777197 index=257 color=43775 index=343 color=512
opacity:
smooth=no index=0 opacity=255
layer:
method=multipass caption="M+" opacity=100
mapping:
center=0/1.20598958315 magn=11.195335
formula:
maxiter=2500 filename="sp3.ufm" entry="CubicParameterspace3"
p_PlottedPlane="6.(b-real,b-imag)" p_M=M+ p_SetBorders=no p_hide=yes
p_areal=0.0 p_aimag=0.3 p_breal=0.0 p_bimag=0.0 p_xrot=0.0
p_yrot=0.0 p_xrott=0.0 p_yrott=0.0 p_zrot=0.0 p_LocalRot=no
p_diff=no p_bailout=100.0 p_dbailout=1E-6
inside:
transfer=none
outside:
density=2 transfer=linear
gradient:
smooth=yes index=49 color=69 index=105 color=16769274 index=319
color=12543 index=344 color=9043968
opacity:
smooth=no index=0 opacity=255
}