![]() MM: I wonder if you could get us started with some background information. They wanted more. This story has been largely forgotten, until now. But Daniel and others were not satisfied with the 2D Mandelbrot set. The article mentioned the 2D Mandelbrot set, named after the mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot , who also coined the term “fractals”. ![]() I was reading the New Scientist article entitled “ The Mandelbulb: first ‘true’ 3D image of famous fractal” the other day that was written in 2009. Most noteworthy, he collaborated with other members of, which resulted in the discovery of the first 3D fractal images. He not only coined the name Mandelbulb according to Mathematician and sci-fi author Rudy Rucker, but he also played a significant role in the discovery of the 3D Fractal. The result looked pretty similar to the current mandelbulb, granted at a pretty low resolution.It is an honor to present to you an interview with Daniel White. Daniel is one of the true pioneers of the 3D fractal movement. Submitted a job to calculate a 256^3 volume, used the marching cubes algorithm, and rendered it. ![]() I tinkered a bit with how to get different 3D slices (I forget what tweak I used for the Z axis). I was working under Joel Welling who was working on an implementation of the marching cubes algorithm. I was working at Pittsburgh Super Computing (PSC) in the 90s as a student. ![]() 2 mathematicians argued that the higher resolution maps would asymptotically approach some number and a higher precision area would settle that. Later on I did similar in PA-risc assembly, even participated in one of the first distributed computing projects, to map the area of the Mandelbrot set. I wrote some hand assembly for the x87 (and managed to keep the calculations on the stack at 80bit precision). Printed a few dozen out for people to pin up on walls. Everyone in the room was amazed when it printed out. ![]() I begged the lab attendant to not reset the printer. A print kept the normally 100 page/minute printer busy for a minute or two. The big lab printer that normally printed ASCII only (mostly homework assignments). After my dad bought an EVGA I wrote the first (to my knowledge) EGA driver for turbo pascal based on the hardware description in PC tech Journal.Ī few years later I was at U Pitt and rendered a Mandelbrot zoom at 300 dpi in postscript. I wrote an implementation in turbo pascal for a CGA display. I was fascinated by the Mandelbrot set, and had read the original description in scientific american. ![]()
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