Greetings from Oslo, Norway

[FractalF]

Hi

My name is Alf and for some weird reasons I've been obsessed with fractals since I was a teenager. I resently discovered all those totally amazing mandelbulb/box videos on youtube and that just blew my mind of excitement! So my goal now is to dig further into that and try to make some videos and study the mathematical formulas...

I'm currently working as a computer game programmer (http://snowcastle.no/) and love my job. I've studied math/physics/computers/astronomy/chemistry/etc on university some years ago..

Any good books out there on the subject of mandelbulb/box?

Fractals is to me almost a religion, it gives me a totally new way of perceiving and understanding things around me on all macro/normal/micro scales! Without the idea of fractal geometry I would not have my current understanding of reality. While watching the mandelbulb/box videos I realized that that is currently the best way to really try to understand infinity contained by a horizon, or the place where chaos meets  order and vice versa. Does anyone else feel that fractal science goes way beyond math and art?

Nice to join here, I've read a lot about this forum while recently updating myself on whats going on, and I'll probably bug you guys with questions as time pass

-=[ FractalF ]=-

[Sockratease]

Hello and Welcome to the forum   

Any good books out there on the subject of mandelbulb/box?

Being that the Mandelbulb/Box was discovered here, and only relatively recently, the best book on it is this forum!

I'll see if I can find the thread where it all started and post a link, but hopefully somebody else who knows where it is will beat me to it.

[cKleinhuis]

hello and welcome to the forums!

nice you made it ...

in fact I am planning to write a book about everything since 2 years now, but nothing to show yet ...

sock is right, many stuff, and when i mean "many stuff" i really mean it, most precious formulas can be found, many insights gained

[Fractal Ken]

Being that the Mandelbulb/Box was discovered here, and only relatively recently, the best book on it is this forum!

I'll see if I can find the thread where it all started and post a link, but hopefully somebody else who knows where it is will beat me to it.

Welcome, Alf! I think Sockratease is referring to the initial Mandelbulb thread True 3D mandelbrot type fractal. For information on the Mandelbox, its discoverer Tom Lowe (Tglad) has authored an informative website.

[FractalF]

Thanks for the info folks! I will defiinitely check out what on here as time goes by. Look forward to reading about the discovery of mandelbulb/box!

I also found another great link here some weeks back: http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html
Good way of explaining the story and what's it about.

...now all I got to figure out is how to convert the bulb into music, as  im also very much into electronic music

fractal greetings!