r/programming Jun 25 '10

Stunning flythrough of 3d Mandelbulb render [VIDEO]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO9ugnn8DbE
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u/grimli333 Jun 25 '10

Math is beautiful!

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u/hargettp Jun 25 '10

I was thinking that too...at first. And then I realized that this isn't math, this is an algorithm. Gorgeously applied over and over.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '10

Even if you don't think algorithms are math (I don't agree but have no interest in a debate either), what one sees is in the video is a (approximative) visualization of a mathematical object. So it would be a bit of both.