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Quark
Mandelbrot set in 3D
Oct 16th, 2009, 11:20am  
If you are familiar with fractals and the Mandelbrot set then you might enjoy seeing it in 3D.

http://www.lagers.org.uk/gallery/applets/mandelbrot3d/index.html
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0p0
Re: Mandelbrot set in 3D
Reply #1 - Oct 16th, 2009, 4:15pm  
Awesome!

I LOVE the concave side Cheesy
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ben_hem
Re: Mandelbrot set in 3D
Reply #2 - Oct 16th, 2009, 6:02pm  
This site is pretty interesting:

http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbrot.html

Talks about some different approaches for taking the Mandelbrot set into 3D.
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Quark
Re: Mandelbrot set in 3D
Reply #3 - Oct 18th, 2009, 5:07am  
Since the complex plane is 2D then there is a 'sense of falseness' in showing the Mandelbrot in 3D but it can be pretty as can be seen by following your link.

I have 'upgraded' the applet by increasing the detail level. The original Mandelbrot was calculated on a 250x250 grid, the size was selected to give reasonable rotation speeds using P3D (OPENGL was slower!).

The new version is 800x800 grid and is very fast on rotations. I did this by accessing the OpenGL commands directly.

Enjoy  Cheesy
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