16. PhotorealNo. 16.15
Mandeltorus
The mandeltorus is a fractal: a shape whose small parts repeat the pattern of the whole, over and over, smaller and smaller.
Handling
Tap it to spin its rings opposite ways.
Its tag
- Shelf
- 16. Photoreal
- Kind
- Capture
- Sound
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC BY 4.0, MIT, BSD
On the wall it weighs 12.5 KB: 1,009 splats, fitted to pictures of the full Splash, which opens with 300,000.
About it
The mandeltorus is a fractal: a shape whose small parts repeat the pattern of the whole, over and over, smaller and smaller. It is a piece of math art, made by a computer from a formula related to the Mandelbrot set and bent into a ring, or torus.
Tap it and its rings turn opposite ways in bands with a cyan glow, then lock back into place. The mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot made up the word "fractal" in 1975; fractal patterns turn up in nature too, in ferns, coastlines and snowflakes.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| MandelTorus 4,12,8,1.5 (Spirula Studio)Converted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentered and scaled. | harry7557558 | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)
