Mandelbulb
The Mandelbulb is a 3D fractal, a cousin of the famous flat Mandelbrot set.
The facts
- Shelf
- Math
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
How to play, in the Playground
Tap to turn the discs. Hands-on: drag round a disc to turn it like a lock's dial.
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) |
About it
The Mandelbulb is a 3D fractal, a cousin of the famous flat Mandelbrot set. 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.
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.
