Archive for February 2012
T-Square Fractal Cubes
If you don’t already know, I like fractals a lot.
A few months ago I was playing around with the T-Square fractal. Recently I decided to revisit this fractal and try to add another dimension. So instead of using squares, I decided that I’d use cubes and make the rules the same. For each free corner on a cube, create another cube and repeat.
So I wrote a small program in Python that creates a scene for Povray (speaking of which, I wasn’t able to find any good libraries for talking to Povray in Python! If anyone knows of such a library, I’d love to know.)
Anyway, here are the results:
T-Cube fractal iterated 9 deep
I’d love to make a video out of this but I don’t think my budget can afford it right now. The frame you see above you took about an hour or so to render on my laptop. Unless anyone has a cluster they’re willing to lend me, I’ll have to stick to stills for now.
Update 3/26/12:
I decided to 3d print it. Printed on a 3d powder printer at Makers Factory in Santa Cruz.
And a 3d print of the fractal with only 6 iterations this time.
Update (again) 4/16/12:
I sent away to Shapeways to get it printed in black plastic.
3d printed fractal from Shapeways
