Exploring Fractals: Golden Meteor

Finally got to do some Mandelbulb rendering again.
I just tweaked a Bet1h522 formular and mostly played with some basic settings like:

• DE stop
• lighting
• dynamic fog
• transparency
• reflections

I am planning on some bigger animations in the future.
The good thing is, it only uses the CPU cores, so mining is still possible while rendering some great high-resolution project.

Here are some different takes on the same base-fractal.

I used 4x anti-aliasing for a smoother image.
This is the same fractal with a minor change.

And the same again with major parameter changes.

And here is a closeup of the eye of the fractal-storm:

Let's take a look around this shiny little meteor:

And here a warp of the second variation. I actually like it a lot, might make a high res version:

To be continued...

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