The Mandelbulb

No, nothing to do with the Prince of Insufficient Light's bell-end. This is the first true-3D representation of the famous Mandelbrot fractal and it looks very much like a Gigeresque Alien Egg Sac

00323fb28ab.jpg


From http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/mandelbrot-fractals-in-3d/5
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
I think they look fucking cool. I'd love to know what routine was used to generate them.
 

polystyle

Well-known member
Thanks, cheers guys

No , I asked because - haven't seen these in a while , back in 1989 I was hired to work with IBM's advanced CG lab upstate to do music for Quaturnian & Julia set fractals by their scientist Alan Norton. Small world ...
They were a red shape and a green shape , animated for about 3-4 minutes as they went through their numbers , rendered as gluey, changing shapes.
Now they reside on VHS tapes in the closet.
The IBM people, once you got inside the op, were all pretty cool to work with ( Alan Norton Bob Bacon and crew ).
That Lab now long gone.
 
Last edited by a moderator:

polystyle

Well-known member
that sounds amazing, do up them to youtube or something!

Right, I know, they are worth putting up and out,
prolly the non - disclosure forms signed with them have run out by now !
There were 2 fractal pieces, plus they brought us back for "Tipsy Turvy"- a cg short about a teapot ( the logo of SIGGRAPH ) simulated out of a substance that acted like rubber.
And "Leaf Magic" another short with leaves that frolicked around a playground until they met up with the wicked rake who tries to control them.
Silly, but ground breaking cg at that moment.
 

massrock

Well-known member
William Latham's stuff at IBM from around tha time still looks good as well.

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=""></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
reminds me of that fractal brocolli romanesco I think its called.

fracbroc.jpg

I love that stuff, I remember talking about it on here before. It's like a vegetable that goes to psytrance raves or something.

I've not actually eaten it, but I gather it's virtually tasteless. I guess that doesn't matter when it can clearly get by on its looks.
 
Top