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The rules are as follows:

- Every user can submit ONE cool picture to become our fractal image of the month.
  Images must be your own creation!  Production date is unimportant.

- Good resolution (HD mandatory, 4k preferred for print of calender if you win)
   Images must be fractals, created with fractal software, postproduction is allowed.

- To participate, just post in this thread and attach the image to your post. (don't use the gallery)
  Please give it a good name, and add interesting info like software/formula used, parameter sharing is very welcome!

- The first two weeks of the month are for suggestion, until the end of  the 14th of the month,   00.00 hr. midnight  (A'dam time) 
   Check your local time here:
   https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/netherlands/amsterdam

- You can vote for each entry once (using our voting system bronze, silver and gold -  1, 2 and 3 points)
  This voting period is from the beginning of the contest, until the 28th  of the month. You can change your vote during the  entire period. 
  https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/netherlands/amsterdam

- Top3  will be displayed in in the Winners gallery when voting is closed, and at the end of the year in a best of the year
  thread/galleryslideshow.
  https://fractalforums.org/index.php?action=gallery;cat=25
 
- We want to try to revive the printed fractal calendar idea. So any submitter automatically accepts that his image will be used in the
  calender if it wins.    (all money from the calendar goes into the further development of fractalforums.)

- After the winners are announced, the winning images will be presented in the 'gallery of fame' to honor the winners and their Art.
  The winning images are presented in this new gallery, which will grow to become a "best of" gallery:
https://fractalforums.org/index.php?action=gallery;cat=25

- Post any questions, or suggestions you have here: https://fractalforums.org/fractal-image-of-the-month/70/fractal-image-of-the-month-discussion-thread/150

Please start admitting your best work now and most off all.... have Fun!   
Fractal Forum team.

Title: Double Connect

Fragmentarium/Examples/Experimental/DoubleTest.frag

The color scheme here is based on one from Inigo Quilez's Shader Toy:
   http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/mset_smooth/mset_smooth.htm
 
formula based on Chris Thomasson's
   http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=20565

original 4096x4096

The Final Frontier

"A crack in space-time"

being hardly held closed by a pair of clips - trying to keep the parallel universe out.

Type: Raw Lyapunov-based image, detachedly computed
Software: self-coded C++-programm
No post-processing.

Prechewed Bubblegum!

Mandelbrot rendered in Infinity Fractal (parameters attached)

I am grateful that Steve (mrrudewords) released his program, so this month I am posting an Infinity Fractal one. It is a julia set from Duck's formula. Prechewed Bubblegum (above) was used as base, changed colors and  the layers positions and configurations. I got to render it at 3200 (using 6Gb) and after I resised it using Irfanview.

Opera Glasses

formula: Burning Nova (like Nova, z → z - (z^3-1)/3z^2 + c, but with |abs| applied to the real and imaginary parts of z before each iteration)
colouring: edge detection on atom domains (iteration count of closest approach to the critical point z = 1+0i)
software: FragM

Made with Jux software:  "Fractal Drilling"

Golden Angel
Buddhabrot Render done with BuddhaMag

InfraRed Sensors

Fragmentarium
claude's Lyapunov example https://fractalforums.org/fragmentarium/17/lyapunov-example/1989/msg9938#msg9938
Last vector increase colouring https://fractalforums.org/fragmentarium/17/last-length-increase-colouring-well-sort-of/2515

Complete .frag attached (necessary due to slider range in ray-tracer)

And the winners of the 'Image of the month contest'  February 2019  are...?

Gold, first pace :
mrrudewords     with:  "Prechewed Bubblegum! "     - 20 points
shared with:
Sabine62           with:  "InfraRed Sensors"               - 20 points
 
Silver,  second place:
3Dickulus       with:   "Double Connect"                -19 points

Bronze, third place: 
pauldelbrot     with:   "The Final Frontier"    -17 points
Shared with:
Fraktalist        with:   "Golden Angel"          -17 points


Congratulations to you all!        Well done

Ohh
Thank you very much! 
And congratulations all, beautiful entries! 

Thank you!

w00tw00t thank you all for voting and participating 

Congratulations to all and thanks for the parameter's files.