Draw a Newton Fractical – color by orbit distance from roots. More...

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Draw a Newton Fractical – color by orbit distance from roots.

Author: Mitch Richling https://www.mitchr.me

Standards: C++20

See also: https://www.mitchr.me/SS/newton/index.html#max_back

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Details

We do the standard Newton iterations, but we keep track iterations that make a step AWAY from the root to which the orbit eventually converges. Then we color according to the largest such back-step. Near the origin, some backsteps are quite large.

Definition in file newton_max_back.cpp.