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Title: Are Radiolaria an Example of a Mandelbulb?
Post by: Paul Miller on December 14, 2009, 05:35:10 AM

Radiolaria

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GeolSci/micropal/radiolaria.html

Radiolaria are holoplanktonic protozoa and form part of the zooplankton...


http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GeolSci/micropal/images/radi/radi035.gif

(http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GeolSci/micropal/images/radi/radi035.gif)

         Alievium superbum (Squinabol)             


http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GeolSci/micropal/images/radi/radi036.gif

(http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GeolSci/micropal/images/radi/radi036.gif)

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Title: Re: Are Radiolaria an Example of a Mandelbulb?
Post by: jehovajah on December 16, 2009, 07:43:51 PM
very cool! I notice the rotational symmetry of order 3, so spherical coordinate manipulation by the developing cell may be signified.


Title: Re: Are Radiolaria an Example of a Mandelbulb?
Post by: kram1032 on December 16, 2009, 08:30:17 PM
it's kind of what's expected, actually...

in scales of cells and beyond, gravity plays hardly any role so there is no propper definition for up or down. - euclidean and cylindrical don't really make sense there....