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« on: July 07, 2010, 03:17:10 PM »

These images are a spectacular sight, and the fact that they're fractal is simply the icing on the cake!

Apparently, an island called Socotra harbours the most strange and most rare kinds of nature anywhere on Earth. It really looks alien, and if I didn't know any better, I'd say it was man-made. But it isn't:

http://www.travel-to.info/2008/09/socotra-island-the-most-bizzare-place-on-earth/
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« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2010, 03:40:22 PM »

On that beach, with a laptop, SB:s pixelbender, mandelbulb 3D and mandelbulber...  afro

Very nice images twinbee!
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« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2010, 12:24:05 AM »

   These images are a spectacular sight, and the fact that they're fractal is
    simply the icing on the cake!
    Apparently, an island called Socotra harbours the most strange and most
    rare kinds of nature anywhere on Earth.
       http://www.travel-to.info/2008/09/socotra-island-the-most-bizzare-place-on-earth/

Ahhh, yes...  these particular images have been floating around the Internet for the past few years now.  I thought most everybody was already aware of them.  The problem with the above web site, is that they are only showing a portion of the full set (there should be 24 images).

Socotra one of the four islands in the Indian Ocean, and part of the Republic of Yemen.

Not sure any more about who posted the original collection, but one of the older sites (Sept. 8, 2008) that still has a full set may be found here:
    http://freshpics.blogspot.com/2008/09/socotra-island-most-bizzare-place-on.html

And here is another one from Sept. 8, 2008 with a few additional images thrown in, in particular a whole city that looks like it was built from the Mandelbox formulas:
    http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/most-alien-looking-place-on-earth.html

Plus, Wikipedia always has information on such things, including images of the caves found on the island:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socotra
 
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