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It was sometime in the 1990's. I'm not sure where I first encountered Fractals, it could have been at a rave, or in a magazine. Then my friend introduced me to Fractint and everything started making sense. My interest in Tao'ism especially the Hexagrams - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor_set ... the dance music I was heavily into and DJ'ing. The Wrath of the Math as Jeru the Damager put it (a hip hop rapper). Now after a long absence (VERY long story ) I find myself reminding myself what I was doing with Fractint and getting into newer software like Mandelbulber 3D and Incendia. Being heavily into video games and 3D engines (latest thing is UE4), and having already made some fractal inspired art ...

http://djbarney.deviantart.com/art/Hilbert-meet-Phi-153628202
http://djbarney.deviantart.com/art/Octahedron-Array-43390067
http://djbarney.deviantart.com/art/Sunset-Tropism-43445221

I am looking at how to export 3D fractal meshes from these fractal applications. Quite involved as, being fractals, the mesh complexity can get out of control and in a realtime 3d engine (the game engine, ue4, etc) we have to "fake" everything to maintain persistence of vision through high frame rate. There are things like normal mapping - http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Normal_map - that can fake the detail but I have not found any fractal software that takes this approach yet; export overall fractal shape as mesh and then somehow compute the details as a normal map, I'm sure there are other ways as well.