Mandelbulb Hologram Glasses

[salvatorin]

Hi. I've been a lurker here since the mandelbulb was born. I love that thing. It is a beast that jus keeps on growing. It's slowly but surely injecting it's way into underground culture. Lately hologram glasses (a la aliens and pot leafs and peace signs) have been going through a revival of some sort.

I want to make a pair of circle frame sunglasses with a 3d mandelbulb hovering in my eyes. It would be so awesome. People would be like "WOAH what is THAT!" and one more person would know about the almighty mandelbulb. I think I have found a company that will make custom hologram glasses, I have to ascertain this though. Either way, I'm guessing I will need to give the company some sort of 3d file with a little mandelbulb in it. I'm not even an amateur with 3d graphics, just an admirer. How would I go about doing this, ie. what file format (i'm asking the company)...maybe someone here could just send me a mandelbulb.
Thanks,
-salvatorin

[fractower]

That is really cool. I can produce an STL file of the bulb, though I suspect that one already exists at Shapways.com. A lot of people make their models downloadable. If you don't find one there let me know.

[salvatorin]

That is really cool. I can produce an STL file of the bulb, though I suspect that one already exists at Shapways.com. A lot of people make their models downloadable. If you don't find one there let me know.

My correspondent with the company is asking for a jpeg file, I don't think he understood my inquiry, there is a bit of a language barrier. I just sent a message explaining it in a little more detail, maybe this will work. Either way, maybe I'm getting in over my head. Does anyone here know what is required to make a hologram (a virtual one, or real one)?
edit: I looked on shapeways and their mandelbulbs were fairly meh. An STL file of a power-8-mandelbulb would be much appreciated.

[salvatorin]

Okay...the guy didn't understand, he just accepted a mandelbulb jpeg and gave me a price quote (minimum order 300 at 2.5$ a pair, lol) So that option is gone. But this idea won't die! It is too good.

[fractower]

Bummer.

Shapeways limits the number of triangles in a model which causes the bulbs to lose a lot of detail. I produced a ~5M triangle model of an 8th order bulb. I cannot post it here, but if you still plan to pursue the glasses I can probably email it to you. 

This is a stereogram of the model. My openGL viewer is somewhat primitive. I suspect the hologram SW will offer more lighting and color options.