Daniel White solves the Mandelbrot set with beautiful 3-D fractals

[Roger Bagula]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6926241.ece
November 21, 2009
Daniel White solves the Mandelbrot set with beautiful 3-D fractals
Honeycomb Heaven
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00648/Honeycomb-385_648416a.jpg
(skytopia.com)

'Honeycomb Heaven, a 3-D fractal created by Daniel White
Hannah Devlin

It may look like an underwater cave but this is the image of a three-
dimensional fractal, the result of years of work by a computer
programmer.

Daniel White, from Bedford, claims to have made the first “real” 3-D
solutions of the Mandelbrot set, groups of equations used to produce
fractal images.

Two-dimensional fractals are familiar snowflake shapes produced by
repeatedly feeding a number through the same equation. Three-
dimensional solutions to these equations are much harder to find.

Mr White said that his images “are illustrative of the powerful beauty
of maths”.