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The book is a little out of date, apparently..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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