Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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It's the Mandelbulb! What happens when you take the original fractal (The Mandelbrot Set) and extend it into 3D space? And how do you visualize it in Processing (Java) as a point cloud? thecodingtrain.com/challenges/168-the-mandelbulb

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Links discussed in this video:
🔗 The Unraveling of the Real 3D Mandelbulb 1: skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html
🔗 The Unraveling of the Real 3D Mandelbulb 2: skytopia.com/project/fractal/2mandelbulb.html
🔗 Processing: processing.org
🔗 MandelBulb wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbulb
🔗 PeasyCam: mrfeinberg.com/peasycam
🔗 Inigo Quilez website: iquilezles.org

Other videos mentioned in this video:
🎥 Mandelbulb (raymarched SDF): youtu.be/eKUh4nkmQbc
🎥 Mandelbrot Set with p5.js: youtu.be/6z7GQewK-Ks
🎥 Spherical Geometry: youtu.be/RkuBWEkBrZA

Timestamps:
0:00 Introducing Today’s Topic
1:31 The MandelBrot set explained
4:31 Triplex numbers
5:11 Voxels in Processing
6:36 Adding PeasyCam
7:19 Spherical coordinates
9:18 The power of triplex numbers
10:51 Implementing power formulas
15:26 Converting cartesian to Spherical
19:26 Setting up the MandelBulb
22:00 First MandelBulb
22:23 Optimising visualisation
24:47 Pointcloud MandelBulb
25:47 Variation ideas
27:04 The MandelBulb returns
27:31 See you next time!

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