Hello from Paris !

[AlphonseLavallee]

Hello! I am an occasional fractal artist amateur living in Paris, France. I discovered the Mandelbulb on the site “Images des Mathématiques” (Jos Leys article in French).

Even if I am more known on deviantArt for my anthropomorphic drawing, I recently tried to make panoramic representations of the Mandelbulb. Here is an example... Of course the rendering isn’t very aesthetic compared to what could be obtain with some software, yet the pleasure of writing his own code is priceless... 

I was also wondering if there is other people working on 360° panorama of the Mandelbulb?

[Sockratease]

Hello and Welcome!

I've been meaning to try some sort of panoramic render eventually so I can use it in my 3D work, but have not yet done so, or even tried to learn how to about it.

Maybe you can teach us how!

[bib]

Welcome, bienvenue

I played with this idea a while ago: http://www.fractalforums.com/mandelbulb-renderings/test-panorama/

[Jameses]

you may want to considder the definition of 'amateur'. most of us here are!

[AlphonseLavallee]

Sorry for the delayed reply!

@Sockratease: Thank you. It seems that panoramic version of the Mandelbulb aren't very common. I tryed different way, like coding my own program (it isn't very optimized and only return a z-buffer) or using software developed by others (Mandelbulber, Autostitch). The best solution would probably be to integrate an equirectangular geometry in the Mandelbulber sources... (it is easier to say than to do, I know)

@bib: Merci. Your example is quite interesting. Did you already try to render a panorama on a full sphere (360° x 180°) ?

@Jameses:  Please, forgive my lack of tact...

[ant123]

for a panoramic experience it is possible to run the boxplorer program, http://www.mediafire.com/?tefc2n7izmm76mr

you need a very fast graphics card but the renders are pretty joli.

[bib]

@bib: Merci. Your example is quite interesting. Did you already try to render a panorama on a full sphere (360° x 180°) ?

No, the program I use (Panorama maker) does not allow this.