TITLE: Fractal Mandala
NAME: Stephen McAvoy
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: mcavoys@aol.com
WEBPAGE: None
TOPIC: Minimalism
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: fmandala.jpg
ZIPFILE: fmandala.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Povray, Moray, tga2df3

RENDER TIME: 
    9.5 minutes for image 15 hours for df3 files

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+, 1GB Ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    It is not Minimalism in the meaning of the school of
abstract painting that emphasizes extreme simplification of form. It is
Minimalism in so far as the scene has only one object and a camera and the
object_s texture is derived from a Cubic Mandelbrot. Using the formula supplied
in the Povray.binaries.images newsgroup by Andrew aka Invisible aka Orchid. 




DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    I modified the formula supplied by
Andrew and used a pigment function (suggested by Mike Williams in the same
thread) to draw a series of images representing slices through the Mandelbrot.
(At least that is what I think I did) I combined the images into a df3 density
file using tga2df3. Then created a scene in Moray and tried to find a sweet
spot. To get some variation in colour I redid the df3_s creating three, using
the beginning, middle and end of the colour map. I then created a combined
interior for the texture. I posted an earlier and less detailed image in
Povray.binaries.images.


