My friend Ben Walker sent me this today. Pretty cool.
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This has been doing the rounds on the internets for the last week or so, so you may have seen it already.
Basically, a Mandelbulb is a 3D Mandlebrot. It's very, very nerdy, but looks cool.
"The original Mandelbrot is an amazing object that has captured the public's imagination for 30 years with its cascading patterns and hypnotically colourful detail. It's known as a 'fractal' - a type of shape that yields (sometimes elaborate) detail forever, no matter how far you 'zoom' into it…"
http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html#renders