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<\/a>From Fractalforums.com, click to go to the thread<\/p><\/div>\n
Anyhow, while still shaking my head and wondering (like taurus66 in the quote) why anyone would be interested in that puffy, spiny thing called the mandelbulb,\u00a0 along came someone else, in a completely different thread, posting their marathon session, 6-core rendering of “that puffy, spiny thing:”<\/p>\n
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<\/a>From Fractalforums.com, click to go to thread<\/p><\/div>\n
So I’m a sucker for anything that looks like it might be something new in the fractal world, and also a little bit curious to see what on Earth could be worth spending “10 days on 6 cores” to render…<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Mandel Donut Vegas by Furan, click to view the 35mb version<\/p><\/div>\n
The full-size is …big!\u00a0 A screenshot says it better.\u00a0 I had to shrink it somewhat to fit it into a blog posting:<\/p>\n
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Big is a relative thing, but this is biggy-big to me.<\/p><\/div>\n
Print size is saying it’s nine feet wide… although at only 72 ppi…<\/p>\n
But my browser doesn’t seem to do scaling very nicely so I looked it over at full resolution and I slowly realized that maybe that spiny, puffy mandelbulb really is worthy of more experimentation and general attention from fractal artists.<\/p>\n
Even the title is hums with excitement: Mandel Donut Vegas.\u00a0 Las Vegas, I’m sure he means, and the Mandel Donut bit is something that has a literary term for it where one contrasts two words with each other; the scientific Mandel and the truck stop Donut.\u00a0 They get married in Vegas?<\/p>\n
“Electrified Pumpkin” would not be as good.\u00a0 I guess “Vegas” says electric better.\u00a0 The top rings almost look like LED lights in a clear plastic tube.\u00a0 And that’s the sort of schlocky, kitschy atmosphere of Vegas all over again.<\/p>\n
At full size I was impressed by how much detail and variety there is in this “mere mandelbulb”.\u00a0 It glows and the light fills, overfills and spills out in a hundred different ways.\u00a0 This thing is more like a giant Disney World attraction than a simple 3D fractal image.\u00a0 It must be the high resolution that makes such an impression possible.<\/p>\n
Which brings me to another thing, that being the observation that while most fractal images look better as thumbnails (sad, but true) because they lack interesting detail when viewed large, a few, like Mandel Donut Vegas, can handle the close-up inspection and high resolution heavy lifting of a truly intriguing art object.\u00a0 In fact, this thing looked better and better at high resolution.<\/p>\n
Let me give an example:<\/p>\n
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Mandel Donut Vegas by Furan (detail)<\/p><\/div>\n
Power, excitement; is it a roller coaster or blazing theatrical event?\u00a0 Electric cables or ancient Egyptian mummy bandages?<\/p>\n
A technical note.\u00a0 You ought to be wondering what program this was made with.\u00a0 Doctor Furan explains:<\/p>\n
I’m rendering in my own Fortran 77 program (I’m working on implementation of material models to FE-systems. Now only in F77, so it’s a sort of an excercise.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Mandel Donut Vegas by Furan (detail)<\/p><\/div>\n
Allusions to the ruins of the Colosseum of ancient Rome?\u00a0 I particularly like how the colors sometimes become too intense and overwhelm the image.\u00a0 Lava flowing?\u00a0 It’s all there –and more.\u00a0 What are words compared to these sights?<\/p>\n
Mandel Donut Vegas by Furan (detail)<\/p><\/div>\n
Line and over-line.\u00a0 Light and shadow; hot and cold; the burning and the burned.\u00a0 Yes, that old puffball called the mandelbulb has a few thrills left in it.<\/p>\n
Not to be confused with these things:<\/p>\n
The original, original Mandelbulb<\/p><\/div>\n
And now, back to lurking at Fractalforums<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Almost forgot: Furan has a website with more images: http:\/\/furan.sweb.cz\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dave Makin, in a thread over at Fractalforums.com suggested that the mandelbulb deserves more attention: Anyhow, while still shaking my head and wondering (like taurus66 in the quote) why anyone would be interested in that puffy, spiny thing called the mandelbulb,\u00a0 along came someone else, in a completely different thread, posting their marathon session, 6-core … Continue reading
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