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The Mandelbulb
Published: 2009-11-13 02:42:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 24760; Favourites: 501; Downloads: 737
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A slice of history in the making - the original Mandelbulb (power 8), rendered using custom raytracing software to a giant 7500x7500 pixel resolution.Unlike other 3D fractals, intricate variety and detail is found in all axes, and of course it goes on forever, no matter how far you zoom in.
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Oddly, the 2D MandleBROT zoom-ins induce NO fear in me, tho I can get bored after 50 billion X magnification.
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I love finding things in these! You are absolutely right about history in the making! If the original Mandelbrot set transfixed so many people, just imagine the possibilities with something like this!
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Exquisite amount of detail. I wonder if it is capable to be exported for other 3D apps. Keep it up!
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Right now I am kind of depressive and it is strange how that thing can hooked me and change my mind. I love it!
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Someone should make a video game where this thing is a planet you're on. That game would be impossible, no matter what the object was.
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dude, I just totice you are the amazing guy on skytopia...
nice to meet you
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Haha, like the thumbz up pic.
Thanks everyone for your comments and DD!!
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Had to create my own software.
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this is so cool! i thought it was a cardboard sculpture at first
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you just joined this week and already a DD? man this gets my patented "thumbz up" award! this has to be a world record fly guy! keep up the good work. definitely looking forward to seeing more of your work!
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There is truly not enough time to gaze at this art.
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That's uhm. That's the single most amazing 3D render of a fractal I've EVER seen. (and I've seen a lot, I think.)
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Oh wow, someone was showing me this at work the other day and now I find it on here as well! Awesome stuff!
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A few are interested in doing just that. Gotta be careful though - the surface could be very fragile, because of the intricacy. It may crumble upon touching, like aerogel or something.
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even better, sculpture that turns to dust if you touch it!
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Next, I would like to see you model a tesseract!
This is really aweseome.
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somw wgat sincronistically i was looking at the for the first time the other day, then its looking at me at the bottom of the page
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As a simple fractal maker I can just say: "absolutely amazing"!
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It looks like a Baroque wood carving, or coral. My first thought was "No freaking way." This is amazing.
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Wow!
To be honest, looking at the full size image on this page haven't really impressed me much (though it looked pretty cool) but then I got curious about your comment and I visited Skytopia and I don't get how is something like that even possible!
Just to be sure - do I understand it right that this single fractal is literally UNLIMITED source of abstract beauty???
Amazing job...
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Pretty much yes. I don't think the level of variety will be up the same standard as the 2D Mandelbrot however.
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funny to think that these fractals are found in nature and are infinitely infinite
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i definitely thought this was a sculpture... it should be. i love the texture, i want to touch it!!
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Arthur C. Clarke would have been proud. He considered the Mandelbrot set to be one of the seven wonders of the world, he would have flipped over these. I've been keeping up to date on Skytopia and I have to say they are awesome things of great beauty to behold. I want to make one.
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I'd written a story many years ago, shortly after fractals were becoming easier to make on early home computers, which featured such a thing. It wasn't merely rendered though, it was three dimensional, and ... well, caused some issues 
This is so awesome to see what it'd actually look like.
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Hi, do you still have that story?
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lol I was trying to figure out what it was made of.. then I realized I was an idiot. xD
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Great result with this formula.
Congrats for DD.
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