Deep zoom into the ship's mast reveals fractal antennas bristling with detail.
Zooming into the upper mast region of the Burning Ship fractal reveals intricate spiral antennas and miniature ship-like structures that echo the whole at smaller scales. The asymmetry that defines the Burning Ship makes every sub-region a unique discovery.
Real axis (Re)
-1.7618
Imaginary axis (Im)
-0.0259i
Zoom
700×
Max iterations
1,500
Complex address
The Burning Ship fractal uses the Michelitsch–Rössler (1992) iteration . The absolute-value step folds the complex plane before squaring, breaking the bilateral symmetry of the Mandelbrot set and producing the characteristic “ship” silhouette.
This location at focuses on a particularly detailed region of the ship’s structure.
A classic Mandelbrot region filled with curling seahorse-like spirals.
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.
Mandelbrot SetForked filaments branch outward like a high-voltage tree frozen in mid-strike.
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