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Hardly seems a fractal to me. Reminds me somewhat of 3D plotting using 2D
programs.
Alex Vandiver wrote:
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> With all of these fractals flying around, I decided to dig through a
> book I had lying around. There's an interesting passage in the book,
> where it is discussing these figures, called 3d dragon curves, and I
> quote,
> "..he uses IBM's computer resources to plot a million or more points in
> three dimensions to generate a three-dimensional dragon curve. He then
> runs a ray tracing program which determines the illumination of every
> point and the positioning of it on a two-dimensional display. Needless
> to say, this is beyond the capability of our personal compters."
> The book is a little out of date, apparently.. (published in 1990) I
> didn't quite use a million points, but I did use 1 out of every 5 of my
> 288000 calculated points. 57600 blobs still makes a pretty funky image,
> tho..
> -Alex V.
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