Title: 3d Hypercomplex Fractal Post by: jhazelden on June 19, 2016, 03:32:39 PM Hi all. I would like to outline a fractal I thought up recently that, as far as I know, has not been discovered. The fractal is generated using a hypercomplex number system with dimension of 3, allowing for a 3d fractal. In this system, numbers are represented in terms of three basis vectors 1, i, and j. I defined mutiplication of these basis vectors in the following table:
It is easy to prove that this system is distributive, making it hypercomplex, along with also being associative and commutative. Finally, I applied the mandelbrot transformation: The end result is in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbqG23NxaAY I'm rendering it in openGL by cutting out planes so it doesn't look so nice right now, but I would like to, eventually, render it with volume rendering. If anyone feels so inclined: I would love seeing what the fractal looks like rendered in a professional program. Anyways, I just thought I would share this fractal because I haven't seen one generated this way, but please correct me if I'm wrong. The method I used could be changed tons because of all the different permutations possible with the multiplication definition and the method of determining the c constant, just like with the mandelbrot. Please tell me what you think, or provide some better images of the fractal, if you like :). Title: Re: 3d Hypercomplex Fractal Post by: lkmitch on June 20, 2016, 04:37:37 PM Hi,
This idea has been explored before, but I'm not aware of any videos of it. If I remember correctly, it resembled other 3d systems and wasn't all that interesting for the regular Mandelbrot set. But then again, I don't think it was explored that much. Kerry Title: Re: 3d Hypercomplex Fractal Post by: hgjf2 on June 21, 2016, 10:08:56 AM This fractal don't look as fractal. This function is simmilar with the Henon map. Answer: for the hypercomplex a+bi+cj if (a+bi+cj)*(d+ei+fj)=(ad+bf+ce)+(bd+ae+be)i+(cd+af+cf)j, the plane section for j=0. This function is newx=x*x+cx and newy=y*y+2*x*y+cy with x=newx and y=newy for each iteration, but this 2D transformation isn't holomorph. Also the Henon map isn't holomorph. :spork: Neither for plane section for i=0 that having same 2D transformation. But for real number give 0 (a=0 and d=0) having bf+ce+bei+cfj more complicated due bi+cj isn't algebrical subgroup. |