Coding Challenge 168: MandelBulb 3D Fractal

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? https://thecodingtrain.com/challenges/168-the-mandelbulb

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

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