3D Fractals From Periodic Surfaces

Fractals are ubiquitous as in natural objects and have been applied in designing porous structures such as micro antenna and porous silicon. The seemingly complex and irregular structures can be generated based on simple principles. In this paper, we present three approaches to construct 3D fractal geometries using a recently proposed periodic surface model. By applying iterated function systems to the implicit surface model in the Euclidean or parameter space, 3D fractals can be constructed efficiently. Porosity is also proposed as a metric in fractal design.

ON A GENERALIZED FATOU–JULIA THEOREM IN MULTICOMPLEX SPACES

In this article we introduce the hypercomplex 3D fractals generated from Multicomplex Dynamics. We generalize the well known Mandelbrot and filled-in Julia sets for the multicomplex numbers (i.e. bicomplex, tricomplex, etc.). In particular, we give a multicomplex version of the so-called Fatou-Julia theorem. More precisely, we present a complete topological characterization in ℝ2n of the multicomplex filled-in Julia set for a quadratic polynomial in multicomplex numbers of the form w2 + c. We also point out the symmetries between the principal 3D slices of the generalized Mandelbrot set for tricomplex numbers.

GENERATION OF 3D JULIA SETS FROM SWITCHING POLYNOMIAL MAPS

Inspired by the study of 3D fractals based on quadratic polynomial maps,1 this paper presents a novel approach for generating 3D Julia sets by utilizing a family of switching polynomial maps in order to further enrich the form of 3D fractals. Rotational symmetries in the structures of resulting Julia sets with different switching parameters are theoretically analyzed and proved. Experimental results obtained from various parameters and coefficients in the switching maps are provided and discussed in detail. It is hoped that the investigations conducted in this paper can bring on new perspectives for the generalization of 3D fractals.