Four Dimensional Mandelbrot Fractal Animation

[JaPeKePaJaKe]

Let's put mathematicians into jail like the rest of the nature!

[chuckrubenz]

Brilliant! This is the right way to go forth with fractal art!

[A9SecondSleeper]

Are all the parameters at 0:24 of the value 420?

[bobbyFisherfisher]

Looks 2D to me :P

[Polaf3456]

Goodbye brain! LOL!

[luckeycat34]

i wanna know how this is 4 d?

[iAmThePhatMan]

@luckeycat34 pretty sure the fourth dimension is time. If you don't already understand, the color coding of fractals is a measure of time. The colors depict how the set evolves.... I think....

anyway the true mandelbrot set is solid/finite black and white. The colored pictures can be thought of as a snapshot or still frame of the evolving fractal.

[fractalsoul28]

@iAmThePhatMan No actually the colors represent how fast that point is trending off to infinity. points within the black area never escape. Technically a point is only in the mandelbrot set if it would never escape, but in a simple program any point that never goes over 2 within a certain number of iterations is colored black. Other points are colored according to how fast they escaped.

[iAmThePhatMan]

@fractalsoul28 yes but everyone is wondering why this is 4 dimensional, which is because the function looks like it "morphs" in a timeframe, ergo time is the 4th dimension I guess.

[fractalsoul28]

@iAmThePhatMan I guess, what would the 3rd dimension be? To me it just looks 2d plus a dimension of time. I'm gonna download the source, see what he means by "perpendicular julia sets". It looks kind of like animations in which Z is initialized as a different value for each frame.

[fractalsoul28]

@iAmThePhatMan I guess so, he explains it fairly well on his website. I think what we are seeing is a 2d slice moving through 4 dimensions, in the way you see mri scans of a 3d human body animated. So time kind of is an extra dimension, but you can change the direction the plane moves in.

[NicolasNarvaez16MFC]

i love it o.o

[demeal]

wow



[Kuvastus]

It looks lovely at 0:24...

[Jebus495]

@Kuvastus 4:20 reversed... D:

[topbluffa1]

@Kuvastus

looks like cannabis leaf

[RevoltyCG]

haha great snapshot moment

[Spikehead777]

Findmuck.

[drifterdaydreamer]

It looks like a marijuana leaf at 0:24...I'm going to send this animation to Willie Nelson.

[fatqwert200]

you cant see the 4th demention in the 3rd without looking at the 2nd while standing in the first. beat that

[BlueAquaMarina]

Pure magic!! Thank you my dear!!

[snowyowl0]

Four dimensions... in real numbers or in complex numbers?

[dylandionrakiman]

i think i just jizzed in four dimensions