Mandelbulb

 

 

Quaternions 
Mandelbulb 
Hypercomplex 

 

 

Introduction

Have you ever wondered when seeing a fractal image how that thing might look like in 3D?

Here you get the chance to look behind the 'scenes'. And this here will knock you off the rocker!

 

I recently came across Paul Nylander's website at http://www.bugman123.com.

He showed stunning images of hypercomplex fractals and he even published some Povray code.

I could not hold myself back and used his code to see what Povray will make out of it. For images with odd pow-values I adapted his code but I am not sure whethter the result is correct.

 

But before you go and start using his Povray code a word of warning:

 - Trace time on an AMD Ryzen 7 Eight-Core 3.7 GHz with 16 GB RAM is around 2 hours. Sometimes even more!

Happy tracing and happy nightmares!

Gallery of Mandelbulb fractals

Mandelbulb_power2

Mandelbulb_power3

Mandelbulb_power4

Mandelbulb pow2

Mandelbulb pow3

Mandelbulb pow4

Mandelbulb_power5

Mandelbulb_power6

Mandelbulb_power7

Mandelbulb pow5

Mandelbulb pow6

Mandelbulb pow7

 

Mandelbulb_power8

 

 

Mandelbulb pow8

 

 

Mandelbar

 

 

Mandelbar

 

 

 


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