Negmandel Inside With Severe Cuts

I am not usually a big fan of cuts in fractals but when there appears to be an infinite number of them and they build up an intense field of detail, I don't mind so much.

This is a negmandel (ie a normal mandelbrot fractal with a negative real exponent). The location is somewhere in the 'lake' area - the real axis is running down the center of the image. I found this spot where the layering gave a nice organic contrast gradient:




A few further explorations into this area:














Color aesthetic has been abandoned somewhat in this one but the structure is still super slicey:



The following is one of the nicest negmandels I have found so far, rich and intricate with lots of variation in texture and a gorgeous organic coloring. It's only 5 layers and uses simple "Exponential Smoothing", "Lyapunov" and "Triangle Inequality Average" coloring methods. It took more than 40 hours to render at 2048x2048 pixels.