November 16th, 2009

Mandelbulbs

via SEED
Some downright awesome renderings of the “Mandelbulb” or 3D Mandelbrot Set.
As hard as I try to resist my predilection for all things fractal, these are really great and I have to respect the effort to work out the not-so-intuitive math behind them.

Mandel bulb

and

Mandelbrot Gateau

The original article here.

November 3rd, 2009

Fractal Circle Packing

via kottke, this fractal:
Circle Fractal
is being explored by Fred Scharmen. It’s so simple, yet so complicated. I’m suspicious that it’s analog to something else but I don’t see what. Hmmmmm.

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