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Hello all,

Brand new to your forum. I am a programer and like to use Processing for my visual work: http://processing.org/
Some of my projects are at http://alexsimes.com/ although I suppose the fractal mountain generator would be the most appropriate for this forum.

I became very interested in the Mandelbrot / Julia sets recently and was able to make an "Escape Time" pixel representation. I am still fairly new to these kinds of fractals and am trying to wrap my head around programming continuous coloring. If anyone knows of a resource or tutorial for this that doesn't require intense equation reading abilities I'd really appreciate it.

I also discovered the Mandelbrot recently. I posted some questions about it on Processing's forum although they are not as fanatic about fractals as I hope you guys are. If someone could point me in a direction on how to learn to make one that would be fantastic. At a fundamental level I just don't understand what the x, y, and z axes represent for it. I know that for a Mandelbrot x is real numbers and y is imaginary (my confusion on Mandelbulb would be what z is).

Excited to get into fractals

hello and welcome to the forums, the z is just z ;)
call it as you like, for rendering smooth iteration bands david the the man, search for "smooth coloring" on the forums to find some tutorials on how to implement log shading in your escape time colorings ....

hello and welcome,

x, y and z are the components of socalled triplex numbers. but i am neither programmer nor mathematician, so i won't bother you with my half-knowledge. ;D the triplex numbers are discussed at http://www.fractalforums.com/theory/triplex-algebra/msg9476/ (http://www.fractalforums.com/theory/triplex-algebra/msg9476/)

have fun!