PhoenixDoubleNova is the name of the fractal formula that was used to create them in UltraFractal. This formula was written by Damien Jones - many thanks and much credit should go to Damien for the Nova formulae and all of his other utterly brilliant UltraFractal contributions!!
Explorations of this striking fractal family have repeatedly made my mind boggle with their extreme chaotic complexities, but these are always balanced delicately and inexplicably with a regular and very simply visually digested order. I find them utterly compelling.
The Novas have now taken on a strangely ancient feeling for me, after exploring them at such length. This gives them and their kind a delightful feeling of reminiscence and nostalgia.
In contrast to this epic sense of age they also strike me with some sort of urgent vertigo which seems to help place them somewhere between the smallest scales of perception - something like the way the matter in a CPU or neuron would experience the universe perhaps? - and some other kind of infinite meta-observer object that overlooks the progression of time (and the Nova fractals within it) from an unimaginably large distance.
Since they're fairly new to the rest of the world my guess is that new viewers may not instantly develop fond feelings for them. I think you need some sort of disclaimer like that about them because they're definitely not to everyone's taste. Give them a chance and they'll grow on you. Or better yet grab yourself the formula from Wikipedia (or get UltraFractal) and have a play!
Anyway, enough blathering, on with the images! :D
Here we see some characterful spiral structures burning with a gem-like hot glow, which really makes this one stand out to me:
Which was a detail (zoom in) on this:
Another few that really tickled my retina upon first uncovering them:
There were also some darker progeny:
And going back a bit we see the initial development of some of these ideas:
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