The mandelbox is my desktop!?

[teamfresh]

Anyone who knows me knows I love fractals and I also love the linux operating system. with the event of the modern 3d fractals it now appears I can have my cake and eat it by having the mandelbox as my desktop cube. As my desktop is not square I had to slice a chunk off of the bottom of the box but hey - that just gives me a peek at the beauty found inside the box! o here is a screencast from my computer..
<a href="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11912237&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11912237&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA</a>

[cKleinhuis]

great, are these exact slices ?!
very cool

[teamfresh]

thanks Trifox!

They are exact slices - I used mandelbulber to create the 6 images (3 images really - 1 image is used for the four desktops) I basically used the "enable limits" option to slice a section off of the mandelbox until it had roughly the same ratio as my desktop cube - then I rendered images of the top bottom and side and used those so the images match seamlessly.

oh and I used a black background when rendering the images and then used a black background for the linux skydome so that you don't really notice that the areas where there is no fractal - that should be transparent - near the corners are actually just solid black!!

[kram1032]

Nice

It would be even cooler, if you where able to zoom in xD
Well, that's prbably some graphics power away.

Imagine: your desktop windows actually floating a little above a true mandelbox - Maybe with full reflections and stuff...

[teamfresh]

Nice

It would be even cooler, if you where able to zoom in xD
Well, that's prbably some graphics power away.

Imagine: your desktop windows actually floating a little above a true mandelbox - Maybe with full reflections and stuff...

I think in a way maybe it could be done with photosynth??

http://www.fractalforums.com/non-fractal-related-chit-chat/fractal-coding/

[kram1032]

that would mean "back to billboards", I guess...
Well, a lot more interesting billboards than ever before, but still billboards.

If this works as well as they clame: http://unlimiteddetailtechnology.com/
then that'd be a possible candidate too. Except for being fully 3D, rather than a bunch of 2D images, stacked together.