These images are pictures of two dimensional slices of the cubic connectedness locus. The pictures were generated by the program Brot, developed at the Geometry Center by Apprentice Linus Upson and Summer Institute participant Christine Heitsch. It was used in the research of Apprentice David Ben-Zvi into the geometry of hyperbolic components, which generalize the discs and cardioids making up the interior of the Mandelbrot set. Like the Mandelbrot set, the CCL is connected.
Most pictures combine real and complex features in often overlapping configurations.
Black Hole Cantor Whirlpool Cell Growth Circles 1. Comb of Doom Crabs Eko Electric Storm 1. Watching Fearful Symmetry Firewheel Frosted Pane 1. 2. Harriet Henon Lookalike Jekyll and Hyde Peacock 1. Ships on the Sea Spiral Galaxy 28948 Stromatolite Sunrise on Io 1. 2.