Symmetry

Some fractal formulas always create images that are symmetric. Ultra Fractal can take advantage of the symmetry to speed up the calculation. To enable this, you must specify the symmetry of the formula as the optional setting between parentheses right after the entry identifier. Example:

Mandelbrot(XAXIS) {
  ...
}

This formula is symmetric around the horizontal x-axis, therefore it uses the XAXIS setting. This table lists all possible values for the symmetry setting:

XAXIS Forces symmetry around the horizontal x-axis, or the real axis.
YAXIS Forces symmetry around the vertical y-axis, or the imaginary axis.
XYAXIS Forces symmetry around both the horizontal and the vertical axes.
ORIGIN Forces rotational symmetry around the origin. This is useful for Julia sets.
PI Not implemented.

You can append _NOPARM to all values (thus obtaining XAXIS_NOPARM, etc) to make sure symmetry is only applied when all complex parameters are set to (0, 0). The XAXIS setting also allows the suffixes _NOREAL and _NOIMAG to disable symmetry for non-zero real and imaginary parts of all complex parameters.

Notes

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See Also
Writing fractal formulas
Formula files and entries