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Just wanted to share some videos I stumbled across today.  The author has done quite a few different renderings of both 2D and 3D mandelbrot fractals as well as other types of fractals.  Here are some of the coolest.  Click here to see all his videos.


Mandelbrot Fractal Set Trip To e214 HD from teamfresh.

The final magnification is e.214. Want some perspective? a magnification of e.12 would increase the size of a particle to the same as the earths orbit! e.21 would make a particle look the same size as the milky way and e.42 would be equal to the universe. This zoom smashes all of them all away. If you were "actually" traveling into the fractal your speed would be faster than the speed of light.

The mandelbox pixel blender render. from teamfresh.

This is a render I made late one night of a trip I took through the mandelbox. How I managed to get out is anyones guess!
you really should have your headphones on for this ten minute trip
The deep tech house music is used with permission from 90watts
an amsterdam based record label.

Robot Candy HD from teamfresh.

This particular two minute piece is not a zoom. Its a manipulation of the fractal set instead - This is just a part of one of the many fractal animations on my upcoming fractal dvd. This fractal animation consists of two layers.

Chinese Dragon Ferns And Needles On Fire In Ice. from teamfresh.

Enjoy!

The Mandelbulb

 I'm sure everyone who hasn't been completely shut off from society for the past 30 years or has ever stepped foot inside a head shop has seen something along the lines of this next picture, but maybe never knew its name:

It's your standard Mandelbrot fractal pic.  It's nothing too special, we've all seen it before, but it does get a little more interesting when you start to look at how it's made and what exactly it is.  For those of you who might not know, a Mandelbrot set is in essence nothing more than a complex math equation that has been run through a computer algorithm to calculate which parts of the image should be colored and which parts are empty.  What is unique about fractal sets is that you could zoom in on a specific point in the image continuously,  without ever losing detail, as the equation would continually update the image to produce a increasingly complex image at any scale.

Big deal, right?  well, if you're craving more psychedelia, you're not alone.  The search has been on for about 20 years for a way to move the Mandelbrot set into the 3rd dimension.  I'm going to spare you all the gory details of the math equations involved in this blog post (find that here).  Long story short, math goons have cracked the case and found a few different ways to adapt the Mandelbrot set equations for 3 dimensions.  Like the 2-D fractal counterparts, these images are designed to grow exceedingly more complex the further you zoom in; in fact it should never lose its detail no matter how far you zoom in.  Check out some of the results:

Find many more examples and an in depth look at the math and logic behind these awesome images over at Skytopia: The Unraveling of the Real 3D Maldelbulb.