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Hi everyone.

I've I've seen the "Buddhabrot" rendering of the Tricorn (aka mandelbar) fractal before and seen it referred to as "Space Lotus" since it resembles a flower, albeit a bit other-worldly looking.

Since "Buddhabrot" style renderings are essentially projections of 4D data, I wanted make a video with a few rotations on different axis to see what the actual structure of space lotus is like.  I haven't had much time for fractals lately, so this isn't a detailed tour, just a little exploration.  This fractal is certainly interesting though and warrants a detailed "tour" once I get the time to work on a new project.  This video does have a zooming rotation at the end that is a little interesting.  If you look quick you'll notice this thing is full of mini-space lotuses AND mini-mandelbrot bulbs.

The original was rendered at 1080x720 with 30 frames per second and took about 2.5 days on my 2.16GHz Core2Duo Macbook using software I wrote in C++.

I'm not really enamored with the compression YouTube did, so here is an .mp4 (about 50 megs) for download which looks cleaner:
http://www.aluminumstudios.com/media/wmilberry-space_lotus.mp4

Also, here is a YouTube link:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/UFE_5P3RHVY&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/UFE_5P3RHVY&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

It's very pretty.

The details upon zooming in were striking, but as you said - it's not a detailed tour, just a little exploration.  Might be fun to see more of the insides next time.

I still don't see a lotus in this guy anymore than I see a Buddha in the Buddhabrot, but I like both fractals quite a bit!

Keep up the good work 

It is beautiful, & thanks for the download! -Much better quality!