Rudy Rucker writes a post in search of the Mandelbulb, approaches to visualizing a 3D version of the Mandelbrot set. These gorgeous renderings come from Daniel White’s unravelling with Paul Nylander & David Makin.
Not only the light and shading technique, but the organic surface details are reminiscent of electron micrograph images. These next few come from my favorite EM photography gallery, Eye of Science (see also cool nano photography, Dennis Kunkel, Google images).
(Bonus link 1: Phidelity‘s 3D IFS fractal video for Rena Jones.)
(Bonus link 2: did you know you can run a 3D raytraced Julia Set in near-realtime on your GPU?)
