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Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees

http://www.subblue.com/blog/2009/12/13/mandelbulb

3D Mandelbulb Ray Tracer

Published on 13 December 2009 The search for a true 3D Mandelbrot has been sought unsuccessfully for a number of years. However, recently Daniel White , Paul Nylander and many others on FractalForums found that a slightly different approach yielded a true fractal structure in three dimensions; that is the images continue to reveal finer details the closer you look.

3D Mandelbulb Fractal Ray Tracer

This implementation was written as a Pixel Bender filter then ported over to QuartzComposer as a GLSL patch to enable animation. The scripts run on the GPU which makes real-time interactive exploration possible.

http://www.subblue.com/projects/mandelbulb

Core Animation

Working with Quartz Composer

http://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/quartz/quartzcomposer.html

How To Install Quartz Composer

http://vjkungfu.com/archive/install-quartz-composer/

Quartz Composer is an awesome realtime graphics tool, and comes free with OS X 10.4 and up.