Plate 100
Mandelbulb
The Mandelbulb is a 3D fractal, a cousin of the famous flat Mandelbrot set.
- Family
- Math
- Origin
- Raised from a recipe
- Habit
- Diurnal: kept on the page
- Voice
- Yes, with the sound on
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
How to play
Tap to turn the discs. Hands-on: drag round a disc to turn it like a lock's dial.
Notes
It is made by repeating one short formula over and over for each point in space and keeping only the points that never fly away. The mathematical fractal has detail on many scales; this splash has a fixed, finite set of points. It was found in 2009 by Daniel White and Paul Nylander.
Tap it and its seven slices turn like the dials of a combination lock, neighbors in opposite directions, then back again. Each turns one seventh of a turn, because the bulb looks the same after a seventh of a turn, so it lands on the same picture. Pick the power (power n has n − 1 lobes) or a Julia bulb, which turns whole, in the Splash tab.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turn the discs | Tap | ||
| Turn | Button | ||
| Power | Setting | ||
| Kind | List | 2 choices | Mandelbulb |
| Julia point | List | 4 choices | c = (−0.8, 0.4, 0.4) |
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 1,000,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.