I find the images generated by iterated equations profoundly beatiful and interesting, and I've hunted them with hungry eyes since before my career with IBM. In fact, I probably owe my career to the esteemed Benoit Mandelbrot, as inner loops went from my hobby to my livelihood.

So, late in the last century, when I needed a test case to brutally abuse Java threads on a headless virtual machine, I wrote laika2 to go look for some of the aforementioned beatiful images.

At the time, IBM let me hand out the complete source code at a COMMON conference, and as such I feel free to pick it up and play with it some more in my retirement.

The first commit has the original Java source code, the original com.ibm package, a minimalist manifest for java -jar, and a simple .maker script fragment.

To build and test, source the .maker from the command line and then run java -jar jars/yourown.jar -h for simple help text (or use --help for a much longer description with lots of multisyllabic words).