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Owner request: combine the Julia Set and Mandelbrot screensavers into one.
The idea came out of reviewing the (rejected) Julia rewrite on #122, which drew a
small Mandelbrot inset with a marker showing where the current c parameter sat.
That inset was the best thing in it: it made the boundary tour legible instead of
mysterious, because you could see why the Julia shape looked the way it did.
Combining the two turns that inset into the point of the saver rather than a corner
decoration — and the 5:1 wall is unusually well suited to showing two related images
side by side.
Why the two belong together
Every Julia set is defined by a single complex parameter c, and the Mandelbrot set
is precisely the map of which c values give a connected Julia set. They are two
views of the same object. Shown together, the relationship is self-evident:
Move c along the Mandelbrot boundary and the Julia set morphs continuously.
Sit c inside a bulb and the Julia set is connected; step outside and it shatters
into dust. That transition is visible, and it is the single most interesting thing
either saver can show.
A — Split panes. Mandelbrot left, Julia right, with the c marker on the
Mandelbrot side. Simple, legible, and each pane is still 3000×1200, which is a
comfortable aspect. Recommended starting point.
B — Julia full-frame, Mandelbrot as a map inset. Closer to what the rejected
branch did. The Julia set gets the whole wall; the map sits in a corner as
orientation. Better if the Julia set is the subject and the map is a caption.
C — Continuous morph across the frame.c varies with horizontal position, so
the frame shows a family of Julia sets shading into one another. Visually striking
and unusual, but it stops being a tour and loses the map entirely.
A is recommended; B is a reasonable alternative. Pick one and record it here before
implementation.
This needs deciding before anyone writes code, because there is real tension:
#121's Mandelbrot rewrite has been reviewed and kept, and its whole premise is an infinite dive by perturbation theory — a double-double reference orbit on the CPU
so the zoom can go past float precision. A dive is the opposite of a stable map you
can point at.
Two ways to reconcile them, and they are genuinely different products:
Owner request: combine the Julia Set and Mandelbrot screensavers into one.
The idea came out of reviewing the (rejected) Julia rewrite on #122, which drew a
small Mandelbrot inset with a marker showing where the current
cparameter sat.That inset was the best thing in it: it made the boundary tour legible instead of
mysterious, because you could see why the Julia shape looked the way it did.
Combining the two turns that inset into the point of the saver rather than a corner
decoration — and the 5:1 wall is unusually well suited to showing two related images
side by side.
Why the two belong together
Every Julia set is defined by a single complex parameter
c, and the Mandelbrot setis precisely the map of which
cvalues give a connected Julia set. They are twoviews of the same object. Shown together, the relationship is self-evident:
calong the Mandelbrot boundary and the Julia set morphs continuously.cinside a bulb and the Julia set is connected; step outside and it shattersinto dust. That transition is visible, and it is the single most interesting thing
either saver can show.
observable rather than implied.
Composition options for 6000×1200
A — Split panes. Mandelbrot left, Julia right, with the
cmarker on theMandelbrot side. Simple, legible, and each pane is still 3000×1200, which is a
comfortable aspect. Recommended starting point.
B — Julia full-frame, Mandelbrot as a map inset. Closer to what the rejected
branch did. The Julia set gets the whole wall; the map sits in a corner as
orientation. Better if the Julia set is the subject and the map is a caption.
C — Continuous morph across the frame.
cvaries with horizontal position, sothe frame shows a family of Julia sets shading into one another. Visually striking
and unusual, but it stops being a tour and loses the map entirely.
A is recommended; B is a reasonable alternative. Pick one and record it here before
implementation.
Interaction with #121, which is in flight
This needs deciding before anyone writes code, because there is real tension:
#121's Mandelbrot rewrite has been reviewed and kept, and its whole premise is an
infinite dive by perturbation theory — a double-double reference orbit on the CPU
so the zoom can go past float precision. A dive is the opposite of a stable map you
can point at.
Two ways to reconcile them, and they are genuinely different products:
cistaken from the dive centre, so the Julia pane morphs as the zoom descends. This
preserves everything quality: Mandelbrot screensaver — make it an actual infinite dive (perturbation theory) #121 built and makes the pairing dynamic. More interesting,
and more work.
map and
cwalks the boundary. Simpler, but it discards the perturbation workquality: Mandelbrot screensaver — make it an actual infinite dive (perturbation theory) #121 exists for — in which case quality: Mandelbrot screensaver — make it an actual infinite dive (perturbation theory) #121 should be closed as superseded rather than
quietly abandoned.
Option 1 is recommended: it keeps the deep-dive work and produces a better saver
than either half alone.
What happens to the two existing savers
Combining reduces the rotation from 30 entries to 29. Decide explicitly:
julia.jsandmandelbrot.jswith one combined module, ormaking it stronger) and replace only Julia with the combined view.
The second is probably better — a deep dive and a paired map are both worth showing,
and they are different enough not to feel like a repeat.
Acceptance criteria
cmarker is clearly visible and unmistakably tied to the Julia viewwatching
registry.jsupdated, and the entry count in any documentation updated with itfragment work of one