can you believe that this picture is a plot of a 3D mandelbrot set !!:





look at those great images here( very big page with many links):
http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html
i hope i can find some complete algorithm to implement those 3d mandelbrot in thinbasic
look at the following image from a "3D Fractal Gallery" wich resembles a temple it is in the bottom of other page:
http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbrot.html




all in all the site is magnificent, look at the projects tab ; many goodies.
another ref is an article "Pandora's 3D box" in the great free math magazine :
http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/sep...ndex.html?nl=1