Unravelling the real 3D Mandelbrot

“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 (…) What we have featured in this article is a potential 3D version of the same fractal…”