Previous researchers had come very close to finding the precise Buddhabrot technique.

Some have labelled Buddhabrot images using this technique Nebulabrots.

The Buddhabrot is a fractal rendering technique related to the Mandelbrot set.

Conversely, a pixel in a zoomed region of a Buddhabrot image can be affected by initial points from regions far outside the one being rendered.

The Buddhabrot image can be constructed by first creating a 2-dimensional array of boxes, each corresponding to a final pixel in the image.

The name Buddhabrot was coined later by Lori Gardi.

More computationally intensive rendering variations include the Buddhabrot method, which finds escaping points and plots their iterated coordinates.

Rendering Buddhabrot images is typically more computationally intensive than standard Mandelbrot rendering techniques.

There are many variations of the Mandelbrot set, such as Multibrot, Buddhabrot, and Nebulabrot.

The Buddhabrot rendering technique was discovered and later described in a 1993 Usenet post to sci.fractals by Melinda Green.

Without resorting to more complex probabilistic techniques, rendering zoomed portions of Buddhabrot consists of merely cropping a large full sized rendering.

Green later realized that this provided a natural way to create color Buddhabrot images by taking three such grayscale images, differing only by the maximum number of iterations used, and combining them into a single color image using the same method used by astronomers to create false color images of nebula and other celestial objects.