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Whilst creating a new web page entitled Mystery of the REAL, 3D Mandelbrot Set (http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbrot.html), I compiled a collection of the best 3D fractals after filtering through literally tens of thousands. I take no credit for the pictures themselves, some of which are created from members of this forum too.

Hope you all enjoy! If anyone here a recommendation, please let me know, and I may add it (though I'm also going to be very picky :P).

http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbrot.html#best

excellent selection!

ah, now i get it, it is yours site, i was wondering- the mandelbrot 3d structure
looks so damn realistic, i want to buy one and place it on my desktop table  O0
 :police: also, i want to remind you of inserting your website to your user profile! :police:

(http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mands3.png)

hmm i still need to make more renders of this mandelbrot iteration!

twinbee as i've mentioned before, the site is really well done ;D

i've just kicked off a new 3d mandelbrot render, it's going to take a day or two before it's done but it should be worth the wait O0

that'll be my first entry in the new fractalforums self-programmed-renderer competition, since trifox complained about me not showing my cards early on :P

 :police: :police: :police:
hehe, i should have included a max render time in the compo :D

believe me, if i could avoid rendering it for so long i would :/ unfortunately it's not cheap to do completely unbiased high resolution rendering of a crisp 3d fractal. if you're thinking about changing the submission rules, perhaps more fair than limiting the render time would be to require a working program that renders it... however, if the rules are too stressful, few people will enter...

anyway, my other entries should be much much faster to render.

dont worry, it was just a joke ...

 :smooth:

well, it's a fair concern considering i'm going to be rendering it with ~20ghz over much of the weekend...

but i'm glad there is no discrimination against high powered rendering  :evil1:

no it is appreciated, there is an extra information field in the gallery - time taken - where you can leave anote about rendering time

Well, if you're ready to spend around $20 to 40 thousand bucks, then you could always get something like this: ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyZtBYG0QOg

(Or you could rent for a day heh). I'm actually quite impressed how much 3D printing has advanced over the past few years. Last time I remember, I saw monochrome blob like structures taking days to build, rather than 450^3 cubes per inch cube colour models taking hours.

Thanks both for the comments - *really* can't wait to see the new render/s! :D

I just had a visit at your sites - and, I am sure I will come back again  :)
All my compliments - just great !

Margit

Thanks! I took a peek at your own site too. I'll give my faves (roughly with best at top):

http://www.graphicandfractalworld.com/Fr5/FeSt8.html

Really love the coloring, overall shape, and jellyfish-like translucency in this - I think it may be your best one! Do you have a higher res?

These 3 also come very close:
http://www.graphicandfractalworld.com/Mb1/mb4.html
http://www.graphicandfractalworld.com/Fr1/fe126.html
http://www.graphicandfractalworld.com/Fr1/fe116.html

These aren't as good as the above, but still really nice:
http://www.graphicandfractalworld.com/Fr1/fe100.html
http://www.graphicandfractalworld.com/UF/7.html
http://www.graphicandfractalworld.com/UF/120.htm
http://www.graphicandfractalworld.com/Fr1/fe162.html
http://www.graphicandfractalworld.com/Fr1/fe181.html
http://www.graphicandfractalworld.com/Mut/Mut23.htm

WOW....I'm impressed !
...are you familiar with the 3d work of Bathsheba ? http://virtualmathmuseum.org/mathart/ArtGalleryBathsheba/Bathshebaindex.html

Thanks!

Yeah, I think I've seen some of his work before. Not bad, though they're a little too much like 'shapes' - more fractalness would be nice :)

Btw, I couldn't resist having a glance at your gallery. So far I love this (http://www.wack.ch/titia/Album/Favorites/photos/photo2.html) and especially Inner World (http://www.wack.ch/titia/Album/Favorites/photos/photo4.html), oh and also some pics from your "feelings" series (25 (http://www.wack.ch/titia/Album/Feelings/photos/photo25.html), 23 (http://www.wack.ch/titia/Album/Feelings/photos/photo23.html), 4 (http://www.wack.ch/titia/Album/Feelings/photos/photo4.html), 3 (http://www.wack.ch/titia/Album/Feelings/photos/photo3.html), 11 (http://www.wack.ch/titia/Album/Feelings/photos/photo11.html)). Pic 23 is like a really weird cool landscape.

Honestly, all this minimalist "postmodern art" you see everywhere in restaurants etc., made of squiggly lines, or super-basic gradients has NOTHING on stuff like yours, GFWorld and others here.

Thanks...I'm blushing... :-)