"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message news:3d99bca9@news.povray.org...
> Pyry <fro### [at] suomi24fi> wrote:
> > Is there a way to create a fractal(mandelprot) pattern with the function
> > pattern or a 4D-julia with the isosurface?
>
>   You can create the mandelbrot and julia sets using the patterns with
> the same names.
>   However, you can't create recursive fractal functions (because functions
> don't allow recursion).
>

Just out of curiosity, would it not be possible to hard-code the recursion in
some way? It would lead to an 'orribly long function, but can it be done?

I've no idea how to do such a thing for a fractal*, but e.g.:

#declare Rec_func = function(x,y,z){
  pow(pow(pow(x,0.5),0.5),0.5) *
  pow(pow(pow(y,0.5),0.5),0.5)
}


*although I'm tempted to try tonight

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