Title: A perturbed Mandel quaternion Post by: fractalrebel on December 29, 2009, 03:20:18 AM In a paper by Hart, Kaufman and Sandin they presented a rotation in the complex plane only which creates an interesting perturbation of a quaternion. In my UF raytrace implemenation of quaternions I call it the Hart angle. The next image is for a Mandel quaternion which has a Hart rotation of -95 degrees. This gives a quaternion that no longer has the lathed shape and now shows some external fractal detail.
Title: Re: A perturbed Mandel quaternion Post by: Tglad on December 29, 2009, 06:06:33 AM Looks like the fractal detail is all in one plane. Do any of the dendrites break out of this plane?
Title: Re: A perturbed Mandel quaternion Post by: bib on December 29, 2009, 08:59:32 AM Looking at this image and its whipped cream areas, I bet some dendrites do exist outside out of the main plane, but these are probably perpendicular to the main plane with not much variety. |