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Title: some more
Post by: Jesse on January 20, 2010, 01:41:06 AM
On top of the Pow2 mandelbulb, i have to add some transparency to see the classic mandelbrot shapes.

And the P3 again, hope you like it.


Title: Re: some more
Post by: kram1032 on January 20, 2010, 02:33:51 AM
nice images :)


Title: Re: some more
Post by: Jesse on January 20, 2010, 09:52:13 AM
The transparency didnt worked well, so i made additional images with 40 and 100 iterations minimum. DE accuracy set low to get more down to the ground. These small butterflies in the 100it image must be minibulbs.  :)



Title: Re: some more
Post by: bib on January 20, 2010, 09:58:53 AM
cool pictures!
The lower iterations are definitely better looking than the higher ones, unlike in 2D...


Title: Re: some more
Post by: Jesse on January 20, 2010, 06:25:27 PM
Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder  ;)

But 3D is hardly compareable to 2D because you see only one surface, in 2D this also wouldnt be such an eyecatcher (one line).

The first one has not a fixed iteration depth, the surface is estimated when the DE gets lower than a given stop value, independent from the iteration count. That is a very natural approach, i think.

I have rendered the last one again with higher accuracy, just wanted to know what happens: