A razor-thin trench near the left needle, dense with filament detail.
Decoded directly from Bert Baron's favorites.js, this center sits near the left needle of the Mandelbrot set at c ≈ -1.770666 - 0.016333i. The original favorite zooms far deeper than FractalSet's atlas renderer can present cleanly, so the gallery and viewer use an atlas-safe framing around the same center where the trench of filaments and branching edges stays readable.
Real axis (Re)
-1.77066601901
Imaginary axis (Im)
-0.0163326052871i
Zoom
100M×
Max iterations
3,400
Complex address
This location lies in the boundary region of the Mandelbrot set, defined by iterating starting from . A point belongs to the set if the orbit never exceeds .
At zoom , each screen pixel represents a region of the complex plane roughly wide — smaller than most atoms on a real object of the same size.
The iteration depth of 3400 means the algorithm checks up to 3,400 times before declaring a point interior (black). Higher values reveal finer boundary detail but require more computation.
A classic Mandelbrot region filled with curling seahorse-like spirals.
Mandelbrot SetMassive elephant-trunk filaments wind through the boundary in repeating arcs.
Mandelbrot SetA perfect miniature copy of the entire Mandelbrot set, floating in the deep.
Mandelbrot SetA dense spiral basin where bifurcating arms fold into one another.
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