interesting images, what was the formulae, again?
(*hint*)

Alex Vandiver wrote:
> 
> 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 The book is a little out of date, apparently..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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