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13 November 2009

3D Mandelbrot fractal WOW. Some freaky, mind-blowing imagery here. Skip right to the renders to see the best stuff.

post by: BoringPostcards at: 17:35 | 4 comments

SO COOL!

posted by aniola 13 November | 20:40

Mind: pretty blown. Nifty work. (Is it me or do some of those, particularly the green ones, really resemble large buds of cannabis?)

posted by Miko 13 November | 21:28

It's not just you, Miko. Also, some of them look like broccoli, which the guy notes.

Also, I have some kind of weird phobia about surfaces with a lot of cavities or tears in them- I've been in rooms with acoustic-tile ceilings that just creeped me out and I couldn't look at them. Some of these pics remind me of those. (I don't like those as much.)

posted by BoringPostcards 13 November | 21:44

I'm totally with you, BP. That's one of the reasons I find the opening of Dawn of the Dead (original) so effective -- it starts with this abstract closeup of carpet on the wall of a sound/radio studio, and it totally looks like some kind of icky, decaying flesh sort of thing.

I'm totally blown-away by these, and also by the fact that what strikes me as amazingly beautiful in 2D really makes my skin crawl in 3D. Not sure what to make of that.

posted by treepour 14 November | 23:21

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