Following my last post, was inspired to create the graphic below. It was done using Chaoscope and took about four and a half hours to render.

Yesterday, I tried rendering it at the “standard” 200 million iterations, but created a mostly smooth sphere with some horrible “scratches” in the middle. It only took half an hour for me to discover the flaw. So I upped the iterations by an order of magnitude to 2000 million iterations. Hence the long wait. Was thinking of calling this thing “Patient Pearl” because of the time involved.

I started the render when I got home from school at around 4.00pm and it was nicely done when I came home from dance class at 9.25pm.