Introduction

Most of the people out there surfing the internet know fractal images but the majority never asked themselves how do fractals look like in 3D.

Povray - meanwhile active over 30 years - has the possibility to render 3D fractals.

While Quaternions are a 'bit' limited - function_types are square and cube only - Hypercomplex fractals offer a huge field of experimentation for curious minds.

So follow me on a journey through the World of Imaginary Numbers - no worries there's no need to brush up your algebra.

POV-Ray 3D Fractal Galleries

New Quaternions:

sqr/cube and cuts through the fractals

Quaternion Gallery sqr

Quaternion Gallery cube

and

New Hypercomplex:

sqr/cube/ln/exp/sin/cos and cuts where possible

Hypercomplex Gallery ln

Hypercomplex Gallery tanh

and

Raytracing Nightmares - how creepy fractals can be!

Mandelbulb Gallery