waggy wrote:
> Oh, and here is the same view with the isosurface function limited to eight
> iterations.
> 
> I just found the function also works well, and is far, far quicker, as a media
> density.
> 
> Good times.
> 
> ~David

Well, I'm seeing that the actual surface generation and rendering is 
probably best left to people like you who seem to get good results, so I 
figured I might as well go another direction with it.

Instead of going for the full 3d, as many of you are, I decided to make 
a way to get 2d 'slices' of this beast that allow for nice smooth 
coloring based on divergence rate, like most of the pictures for the 
original Mandelblot, instead of only edge finding like everyone seems to 
be doing with this so far. I wrote some code that will generate 
grayscale images based on number of iterations according to various 
parameters.

Here is one slice, generated with parameters mirroring povray:
center = <0.7275,0.272,0.5>
right = <0.001,0,0>
up = <0,0.001,0>
n = 8
max_iterations = 200
This image is NOT pov-created, but can be used for patterns and the 
like. It was originally generated at 5000x5000 (.png) which took about a 
minute, then downsized for uploading here.

C++ source available on request, the only dependencies are ImageMagick 
for creating the image file itself, and a compiler supporting OpenMP.

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