Hidden Mandelfield

Apart from just looking quite cool, there's something interesting about this simurgh-tweaked nova which is quite hard to see: There's a mandelfield hidden in it, it's visible through a faint yellow glow, pointing upwards:



Here's the highest iteration layer rendered on its own so that you can see the field more clearly:



I call this kind of phenomena a "mandelfield" because it's like a threshold of attraction that acts over a large field of other structures and has a mandelbrot-set-like shape to it, here's some examples from older work;



Sometimes the mandel-basins can overlap, which gives a really interesting superposition of the dynamics of attraction towards each basin. The superposition can hybridize the basin shapes together in interesting ways:





These structures exist in a wide field of cloudy fuzz that opens up as nova-type fractals 'relaxation' parameter is increased. The texture only becomes recognizable, smooth structures at much lower iteration limits.



To illustrate what happens at lower number of iterations this fractal, which is a relative of the first image in this post, has been given structure using layers with lower limits:



I like to do a full portrait of the fractal before I zoom in, because it usually shows some good directions in which to head:







And what would happen if you motion-blurred something like this as the 'relaxation' parameter is varied? I plan to run some tests with them to see if I get something like this old nova experiment (200 layers or more, averaged together, made with UltraFractal and uprMash):