Ohhh, you managed to get a mesh out of that ma[n]dness? is there any relaxing involved?

Hi Marios, no there's no relaxation. Like the 2d Mandelbrot, it starts out fairly smooth and gets rougher with further iterations (this is after just 4)

Really Nice. I have posted the question before you even managed to add the description of the photo(that would have answered it) :). Amazingly interesting outcome, lots of complexity in this isosurface. thumbs up! 

Here it is after another iteration

drool! Post some more Pics ;)

and here it is taking a larger domain and power 3

iteration 1:

iteration 2:iteration 3:

iteration 4 (the sampling resolution isn't really high enough here to capture all the detail):

power 4, iteration 2:

power 4, iteration 3:

Really nice!

Here's the definition if anyone wants to play:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26034251/mand3d_iso.gh

this is madness!

awesome

dope

wow!!!

OMG! It blows my mind.

Thanks!GW!

sweeet:)

Have you seen the "mandelbulb"?

I also used Millipede in this image to generate the mesh but to really capture the detail you need a voxel/isosurface renderer that calculates the surface boundary per pixel.

The only way to display this thing in Rhino is to create a mesh but is really inefficient and you run out of memory very fast.

I scripted the definition so it builds the mesh in chunks without running out of memory, but still on higher res details won't come close to a native isosurface renderer. Probably could add some more detail before running out of memory by running the reducemesh command after every chunk is generated (unless edges between chunks become noticeable).