The well

[Snakehand]

I am not 100% sure which mandelbulb I am rendering, as am still working on trying to resolve the +/- sin/cos situation, and have had some bug with swapped quaternion components as well. At any rate I came across this "well" when examining the surface of my current bulb.

[kram1032]

nice find if you zoom in deeper, will it become a minibrot-like shape?

[Snakehand]

nice find if you zoom in deeper, will it become a minibrot-like shape?

There "is" no bottom, the details on the walls are repeated, but progressively smaller, so you get a bottomless well from the false perspective effects.

[kram1032]

wouldn't that depend on the kind of zoom? Wether you drive into it literally or you rather change the FoV to archeive deeper zooms?

[Snakehand]

wouldn't that depend on the kind of zoom? Wether you drive into it literally or you rather change the FoV to archeive deeper zooms?

Yes, of course it would, if the well was truly bottomless, it would "come out the other side". I think it may be an equivalent of seahorse valley, you can pan out the bottom of it, but still there is an infinite amount of "seahorses" in it.

This video capures the essence of it:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/vqkPjpU6bsA&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/vqkPjpU6bsA&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>