A before and after duo today. The chaotic nature of the coloring of the included par generates a sparkly image.
After anti-aliasing  the wispy structure produced by the formula is clearly visible.
Because the anti-aliased version is a jpg you will have to go to http://maxitersfractalfollies.blogspot.com
to compare the two versions.

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                     ; created Jun 23, 2010
                     ;  Fractint Version 2004 Patchlevel 9
  reset=2004 type=formula formulafile=kerrym.frm
  formulaname=conic-near_jul16
  center-mag=-2.22045e-016/2.22045e-016/0.8130081/1/-77.4999999999999858/3\
  .88578058618804789e-016
  params=0.8/0.7361369670705282/0.2491225928525651/-0.6531876583147679/-0.\
  1228370006408887/-0.3843806268501846 float=y maxiter=1500 inside=0
  outside=atan decomp=256 periodicity=0
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  }
frm:conic-near_jul16 { ; Kerry Mitchell 11may98
        cc=(0.2882,0.0106), zc=pixel, maxr=1e12, minr=maxr, iter=1
        a=real(p1), b=imag(p1), c=real(p2), d=imag(p2)
        e=real(p3), f=imag(p3):
        iter=iter+1, zc=sqr(zc)+cc, x=real(zc), y=imag(zc)
        conic=|x*(a*x+b)+y*(c*y+d)+e*x*y+f|
        if (conic<minr)
          minr=conic
          end if
        if ((|zc|>maxr)||(iter==maxit))
          iter=-1
          t=log(minr)
          z=cos(t)+flip(sin(t))
          end if
        iter>0
        }
Roger Alexander

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