Space Lotus

Short description: A brief rotation and tour of the 4 dimensional Tricorn fractal rendered in the “Buddhabrot“ style. A common nickname for this fractal is “Space Lotus“ due to it looking like another worldly flower when viewed on the Zr,Zi plane. All Z=Z^2 C style fractals are essentially 4-dimensional with the ’C’onstant plane and the ’Z’ plane, the planes having the C-real,C-imaginary and Z-real, Z-imaginary axis respectively. The typical 2D rendering you see of a fractal is viewing it only from the ’C’ plane. If you rotate the data however you can view 4D fractals from different angles on different planes. That’s what the well known Buddhabrot is (the Mandelbrot viewed from the ’Z’ plane.) I was curious about the structure of the Tricorn (aka Mandelbar). I had seen “Buddhabrot style“ renderings of the Tricorn showing it from the Z-plane, but I have never seen it rotated. I decided to do rotate it around some of it’s axis just to see what it’s structure was like. I don’t intend this to be a detailed tour like my “Under the Bodhi Tree“ video, but there is an interesting zoom while rotating at the end. After looking around this fractal I am really interested in doing a detailed tour of it once I get time to start on a new project. This was rendered on my Core2Duo Macbook using my own software. It was rendered at 1080x720 with 30 frames per second. Total render time was about 2.5 days.