Buddhagram

This is a buddhabrot. A buddhagram is basically a mandelbrot fractal that has been ‘revisualized’. Instead on viewing Mandelbrot fractals in the usual 2D manner, it is viewed as 3D (well, technically 4D, but projected on a 3D space). It is the same Mandelbrot formula, but looked at from a different dimension.

The buddhagram was discovered by Melinda Green. She realized that Mandelbrots are 4D objects, and should be visualized hence, and in her efforts to visualize it in its native 4 dimensional self, she discovered the buddhabrot. Because the way the Mandelbrot set is revisualized, it looks like a typical Hindu art. Lori Gardi, a computer artist named it buddhabrot after she made the connection with Buddhism and fractals.

Later on, Melinda Green discovered a way to project the 4D buddhabrot onto a 3D space, and hence, the buddhagram was born.

Melinda has some nice buddhabrots and buddhagrams on her website, but I chose this, because, just like a buddha, I feel it radiating peace. It is almost a silhouette of a buddha meditating.