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Hello all,

Brand new to your forum. I am a programer and like to use Processing for my visual work: http://processing.org/
Some of my projects are at http://alexsimes.com/ although I suppose the fractal mountain generator would be the most appropriate for this forum.

I became very interested in the Mandelbrot / Julia sets recently and was able to make an "Escape Time" pixel representation. I am still fairly new to these kinds of fractals and am trying to wrap my head around programming continuous coloring. If anyone knows of a resource or tutorial for this that doesn't require intense equation reading abilities I'd really appreciate it.

I also discovered the Mandelbrot recently. I posted some questions about it on Processing's forum although they are not as fanatic about fractals as I hope you guys are. If someone could point me in a direction on how to learn to make one that would be fantastic. At a fundamental level I just don't understand what the x, y, and z axes represent for it. I know that for a Mandelbrot x is real numbers and y is imaginary (my confusion on Mandelbulb would be what z is).

Excited to get into fractals

hello and welcome,

x, y and z are the components of socalled triplex numbers. but i am neither programmer nor mathematician, so i won't bother you with my half-knowledge. the triplex numbers are discussed at http://www.fractalforums.com/theory/triplex-algebra/msg9476/

have fun!