Darren New wrote:
> http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html#renders

A very interesting read, and some very beautiful renders! There is a lot 
of "twisting and shearing" present, but nothing as bad as the quaternion 
approach.

A linked page said this in reference to the lack of 3D rendering 
software capable of producing the "true" 3D Mandlebrot: "Perhaps POVray 
comes closest with its isosurface approach, but even then one can't use 
local variables or constructs such as While loops."

That statement was true years ago, but it is not true today. The biggest 
hurdle now is redefining functions, something which POV-Ray will not 
allow. I think that limitation may be circumvented by juggling two 
functions and #undef'ing them appropriately. I'm not sure how this would 
work out, or if it would even work at all :/

Sam

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