new 3d form of mandelbrot discovered

some of the original images tglad produced are amazing.

directlinking not allowed but : http://www.fractalforums.com/3d-fractal-generation/amazing-fractal/

projected onto 2d

FFUUUUU

The lighting in the first few images of Tglad's first post actually makes those seem like physical objects.

  On 3/11/2010 at 1:04 AM, Salvatorin said:

yeah its like taking a glimpse at something humans don't have the authority to view

I thought the same thing.

yeah - people have been noting personal experience of a definite sense of unheimlich (and using the wiki redir here very intentionally) since page one. maybe it's because it's a very direct and visual representation of a sense of the infinite, or maybe something else (islamic art and architecture keeps getting mentioned, for one...)

shheeeeeat

robot cthulhu's ass

hmm i find most of these renders to look really cheesy… imagine looking at these 5 years from now. the original ones on page one with decent lighting are by far the best.

btw:

  Quote

The human mind is only capable of absorbing a few things at a time. We see what is taking place in

front of us in the here and now, and cannot envisage simultaneously a succession of processes, no matter how integrated and complementary. Our faculties of perception are consequently limited even as regards fairly simple phenomena. The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean anything at all, in any adequate sense of the word. The symmetriad is a million - a billion, rather - raised to the power of _N_: it is incomprehensible. We pass through vast halls, each with a capacity of ten Kronecker units, and creep like so many ants clinging to the folds of breathing vaults and craning to watch the flight of soaring girders, opalescent in the glare of searchlights, and elastic domes which criss-cross and balance each other unerringly, the perfection of a moment, since everything here passes and fades, The essence of this architecture is movement synchronized towards a precise objective. We observe a fraction of the process, like hearing the vibration of a single string in an orchestra of supergiants. We know, but cannot grasp, that above and below, beyond the limits of perception or imagination, thousands and millions of simultaneous transformations are at work, interlinked like a musical score by mathematical counterpoint. It has been described as a symphony in geometry, but we lack the ears to hear it.

Stanislaw Lem, Solaris, 1961

i love the pics but the name, 'mandelbrot', is a bit sucky

benoit mandlebrot

  On 3/22/2010 at 3:55 AM, mohamed said:

i love the pics but the name, 'mandelbrot', is a bit sucky

well, unfortunately, that's the name he was born with, mohamed. damn frenchies.

  On 3/22/2010 at 3:58 AM, kaini said:

  On 3/22/2010 at 3:55 AM, mohamed said:

i love the pics but the name, 'mandelbrot', is a bit sucky

 

well, unfortunately, that's the name he was born with, mohamed. damn frenchies.

um, with the name attached it sounds better

  On 3/22/2010 at 1:07 AM, kaini said:

 

"Youre all clear, kid! Now lets blow this thing so we can go home."x100,000,000,000,000,000,000!

what man wouldn't want to have a death star trench run under his belt?

yeeeah finally got me some mandelbox rendering software

this shit is wild

what program do you use to render these? sorry if it has been mentioned a thousand times

there are a variety. i'm using mandelbuld3d

What the fuck is this shit?

i'm terrible at making mandelbrots

This is what I got right now. Looks menacing.

fractals are profound

when i saw infinity i was traveling through a fractal summarizing the entirety of the universe

  On 3/25/2010 at 12:24 AM, kaini said:

yeeeah finally got me some mandelbox rendering software

this shit is wild

Kaini for reals that orange one is fucking mindblowing.

mandelbrot is german for "almond bread" and is an ethnically jewish desserty snack thing similar to biscotti.

Any mandelbox/mandelbulb software that's MacOS X compatible out there?

  On 3/22/2010 at 1:07 AM, kaini said:

 

that shit is my mind go nggggggggggggggggggggguhh.

I remember looking at 2d fractals using my friends autocad software back in like 93 whilst on acid and being all fucked up about it. If I had gone through that video on a nice dose of LSD-25 I wouldn't be coming back.