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English: Computergraphical study of the critical point 0 of Newton's method for a family of cubic polynomials in the complex -plane. For details see below. Mandelbrot set occurring in the analysis of Newton's method (detail
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Author Georg-Johann Lay
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Summary

Overview over λ-plane in the range [-2.5,2.5]×[-2.5,2.5]i
discrete colors
English: Fate of zero, one of the critical points of for polynomials from the family

in the complex plane. denotes the Newton operator

For in the black part of the plane, the critical point 0 of does not converge to a zero of . This means that the set of start values for which Newton's method does not converge to a zero of is a set of full measure. The black set is

The center of the region is at about .

Coloring

Note: I added the relevant part of the C-source to document what went on.

getLambdaColor
gets the color for one pixel
Nf
perform one step of Newton's method, returns the next z als well as the value of the hard coded ƒλ(z)
cpolar
transform from cartesian coordinates to polar coordinates
hsv2rgb
map HSV to RGB color space
argd[]
some values that can be passed via command line to fine trim the coloring function.

The coloring function itself cannot be derived or explained at this point. It is based on trial and error, observation, intuition and experience to get a function that yields appealing results.

Resolution (both arithmetic and graphical) and graphics are taken care of by higher level procedures which do not contribute to the basic understanding.

Color getLambdaColor (double x, double y)
{
    cplx z = {0,0};
    lambda = (cplx) {x+argd[2], y+argd[3]};
    
    int i;
    cplx f;
    double eps = 1e-8;
    double le = 1./log(eps);
    
    for (i=0; i < argd[1]; i++)
    {
        double v, s, h, b2;
        z = Nf(z, &f);
        if (isinf (z.x) || isinf (z.y))
            return Cwhite;
        if (isinf (f.x) || isinf (f.y))
            return Cwhite;
            
        b2 = f.x*f.x + f.y*f.y;
        if (isinf(b2)) exit(4);
        if (b2 < eps*eps)
        {
            double b = 0.5*log(b2)*le;
            if (isinf(b)) b = 2;

            b = i-b;
            z = cpolar(z);
            h = z.y/2/M_PI-.09;
            
            v = b / argd[4];
            s = 0.9-0.7*pow(v, 1.5);
            if (v >= 1)
            {
                double q = 1.-log (b-argd[4])/log(argd[1]-argd[4]);
                s = 4*q*(1-q);
                if (s > 1) s = 1;
                if (s< 0) s = 0;
                s = 0.2+0.6*pow(s, 10);
                v = 1;
            }
            
            return hsv2rgb (h, s, v);
        }
    }
    
    return Cblack;
}

cplx Nf (cplx z, cplx *f)
{
    cplx z2 = cprod (z,z);
    
    *f = csum (z2, lambda);
    *f = ccsum (-1, *f);
    *f = cprod (*f, z);
    *f = cdiff (*f, lambda);
    
    cplx N = ccprod (3., z2);
    N = csum (N, lambda);
    N = ccsum (-1, N);
    
    cplx Z = cprod (z, z2);
    Z = csum (Z, Z);
    Z = csum (Z, lambda);
    
    return cquot (Z, N);
}

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