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This is a demonstration of how I found the Cross:
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My youtube movie of a slightly less detailed cross in the same area:
[link]

Some tutorials I found useful:
[link]
[link]

I started off exploring the Elephant Valley region of the West miniBrot, then focused in on a midget growing along one of the dendrites extending out from between the individual discs.

Next, I start zooming in on the midget. You may notice that all four of the stages on the third row look almost alike. What I am doing here is zooming further and further sideways into smaller and smaller sub-midgets. The closer I get to the edge, the more elongated they become.

The midget that I finally home in on is shaped almost like a dumbbell. You may get a sense of the depth of zooming required to get there: The dumbbell midget is somewhere between 5 and 6 orders of magnitude (zoomed over 10,000 times) smaller than the previous midget.

To get to the cross in the cross requires another 3 magnitude, the cross inside being fully 1000 times smaller than the dumbbell midget!

Zooming further still into the center of the Great Cross, we find an 8-legged, then a 16-legged midgit, inside of which we find the miniBrot which is pushing the 80-bit precision limits of the software.

The four basic types of geographic features found inside the Mandelbrot set are dendrites, midgits, spirals, and miniBrots. Spirals always zoom down to infinity, however if you probe deep enough into the center of any midget type shape, you will eventually discover another minibrot. Veer off the path at all, and the features continue to get infinitely more complex.

Enjoy

Description
This is a demonstration of how I found the Cross:
[link]

My youtube movie of a slightly less detailed cross in the same area:
[link]

Some tutorials I found useful:
[link]
[link]

I started off exploring the Elephant Valley region of the West miniBrot, then focused in on a midget growing along one of the dendrites extending out from between the individual discs.

Next, I start zooming in on the midget. You may notice that all four of the stages on the third row look almost alike. What I am doing here is zooming further and further sideways into smaller and smaller sub-midgets. The closer I get to the edge, the more elongated they become.

The midget that I finally home in on is shaped almost like a dumbbell. You may get a sense of the depth of zooming required to get there: The dumbbell midget is somewhere between 5 and 6 orders of magnitude (zoomed over 10,000 times) smaller than the previous midget.

To get to the cross in the cross requires another 3 magnitude, the cross inside being fully 1000 times smaller than the dumbbell midget!

Zooming further still into the center of the Great Cross, we find an 8-legged, then a 16-legged midgit, inside of which we find the miniBrot which is pushing the 80-bit precision limits of the software.

The four basic types of geographic features found inside the Mandelbrot set are dendrites, midgits, spirals, and miniBrots. Spirals always zoom down to infinity, however if you probe deep enough into the center of any midget type shape, you will eventually discover another minibrot. Veer off the path at all, and the features continue to get infinitely more complex.

Enjoy