Thanks you have some great work plus a good overview of the possible quaternion variations using Quasz
I see you have exported some .obj meshes into Bryce.
I started using
QuaSZ just after it was first made public back around 2000/2001 (cannot remember the exact date anymore). Went through all of the built-in formulas trying them out, and that took quite awhile because there were so many. Then started plugging in some hand-written formulas to see how they would come out. So many possibilities!!!
And yes, played around exporting several creations into the various 3-D file formats that
QuaSZ supports, just to test each one out. I was using Bryce quite a bit back then, before I acquired Vue and some other better 3-D applications. Had fun coming up with different settings for those objects.
Quite hard to get a smooth mesh to output so I'm trying to take advantage of the roughness of the meshes.
Some of the quaternion shapes remind me of Henry Moore's sculptures. Exporting a mesh from Quasz and
reducing the polygon count produces some interesting chunky shapes.
I have found the same problem with several fractal related rendering applications. Most of them produce a very large polygon count, and usually have "floating" pieces around the main object, so it becomes difficult to adequately import and work with such 3-D files. It takes some practice with all of these fractal programs to get really good 3-D objects for exporting.
These are both good resources for working with POV-Ray. Paul Bourke started working with it quite sometime ago, and has produced some very fine renderings.
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