A trip through a Mandelbox, a mathematical object akin to a Mandelbrot set. Hat tip to Metafilter which has more links.
by Alex Tabarrok on March 29, 2011 at 7:01 am in Science, The Arts | Permalink
A trip through a Mandelbox, a mathematical object akin to a Mandelbrot set. Hat tip to Metafilter which has more links.
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A Borg Cube?
Had the exact same thought.
It’s where my next Dungeons & Dragons adventure will be set.
It’d be cooler if they did something more like this video (which is for the Mandelbrot set).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_GBwuYuOOs
To be really fractal-like, we ought to see complexity on lots of different length scales. It’s a very complicated object they’re showing, but it’s only rendered about 3 levels deep, and then we get pixelation. (Of course, I’m not saying I could animate such a thing myself …)
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Great Video, looks a little bit like a videogame.
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