Aisle 6No. 100 of 460
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Mandelbulb
700,000 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
Math · Built from a recipe
Mandelbulb
The Mandelbulb is a 3D fractal, a cousin of the famous flat Mandelbrot set.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap to turn the discs. Hands-on: drag round a disc to turn it like a lock's dial.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 100 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 6, Math
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 700,000
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turn the discs | Tap | ||
| Turn | Button | ||
| Power | Setting | ||
| Kind | List | 2 choices | Mandelbulb |
| Julia point | List | 4 choices | c = (−0.8, 0.4, 0.4) |
About it
The Mandelbulb is a 3D fractal, a cousin of the famous flat Mandelbrot set. It is made by repeating one short formula over and over for each point in space and keeping only the points that never fly away. The mathematical fractal has detail on many scales; this splash has a fixed, finite set of points. It was found in 2009 by Daniel White and Paul Nylander.
Tap it and its seven slices turn like the dials of a combination lock, neighbors in opposite directions, then back again. Each turns one seventh of a turn, because the bulb looks the same after a seventh of a turn, so it lands on the same picture. Pick the power (power n has n − 1 lobes) or a Julia bulb, which turns whole, in the Splash tab.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 1,000,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
