November 16th, 2009
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.

and

The original article here.
Tags: fractals, graphics, mandelbrot, math
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November 3rd, 2009
via kottke, this 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.
Tags: computation, fractals, graphics
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