. This really is a "surprise" fractal; it finished way ahead of what I had calculated. The same interesting effect is observed with all Julia type fractals (simple to complex) when animating in one dimension (linear, along a line in the plane, ie., by varying one parameter). There are alternating periods of "slow" activity and motion with fast "explosive" displays. One might think you could isolate the "fast" segments, then "expand" them by re-rendering the frames with a smaller increment, but if you do that, the same alternating slow-fast pattern re-emerges. I have noticed this over 10 years of Julia animations. Kinda like a "Cantor Set Line" - as you magnify it the same pattern keeps occuring. In this case it is cool - a small fractal image slowly morphs and expands with increasing speed and intensity, and the cycle repeats several times over the viddie. In the original FOTD for 1/1/13 the REAL parameter (P3) is set to -1.64788477144322. For the animation it is varied from -1.647853 to -1.647913 in steps of -0.00000001 to give 6000 frames. It is 6 minutes 11 seconds long, 61 MEG download. Complete with 12th century soundtrack. http://www.fractal-animation.net/vid/2013.zip Enjoy! JoTz .