Archive For The “fractals” Category

A 3D Mandelbrot

By | June 25, 2010

Skytopia have a great set of pages on the search for a 3D version of the Mandelbrot Set. Or at least, for an interesting 3D version of the normal Mandelbrot. It’s easy enough to produce fractal solids that have a Mandelbrot on one plane, and if you …

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A 3D Mandelbrot

By | June 25, 2010

Skytopia have a great set of pages on the search for a 3D version of the Mandelbrot Set. Or at least, for an interesting 3D version of the normal Mandelbrot. It’s easy enough to produce fractal solids that have a Mandelbrot on one plane, and if you …

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‘Circular’ Polyhedra, and the Apollonian Net

By | April 27, 2010

This is the nice design that I used on page 2 of the book.Annoyingly, rather a lot of other people discovered it before me: it’s indexed on Wikipedia as the Apollonian Net, after Apollonius of Perga (~262 BC – ~190 BC), and it’s also referred…

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‘Circular’ Polyhedra, and the Apollonian Net

By | April 27, 2010

This is the nice design that I used on page 2 of the book.Annoyingly, rather a lot of other people discovered it before me: it’s indexed on Wikipedia as the Apollonian Net, after Apollonius of Perga (~262 BC – ~190 BC), and it’s also referred…

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Fibonacci Fractals

By | December 22, 2009

This fractal’s based on the Fibonacci Rose.The original Rose has two identical interlocking spiral arms. If we delete one of them, we’re left with a simple spiral chain of triangles. Each triangle has three sides – one side connects the triangle to i…

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