June 11, 2005

Fractals. Also, a 3d fractal generator

And the mandelbrot set, drawn in artpad (drawn by a friend of mine) This post was for Huronbob, a tireless campaigner for quality posts, whose last three have been to metafilter, cnn, and metafilter again. Truly an example for us all, and a prince among men

posted by dng 18 years ago
  • And a previous monkeyfilter post about fractals.
  • Can't get enough of fractals.
  • Online fractal explorer. Java. Allows for about 25 zooms.
  • Fractal galleries posted at Metafilter.
  • Excellent. Cheers scartol and Gyan
  • Unless I'm mistaken, "quat" actually produces 3-d slices of four dimensional fractals. I believe the "quat" is short for "quaternion" which is kinda like a 4-d version of the complex numbers. I remember reading about 4-d Mandelbrot and Julia sets which use quaternions in the 80s, with some spiffy pictures in an issue of Byte magazine. I'm downloadning now, and I'll let you know what I find!