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Latest news:2023-03-05: Mandelbulb3D V1.99.37 released: (optional) generating of z-buffers for M.C. renders, including batch renders2023-02-07: Mandelbulb3D V1.99.36 released: support of network rendering for M.C. batch render-submodule2022-07-24: Mandelbulb3D V1.99.35 released: new M.C. batch render-submodule2020-05-04: Mandelbulb3D V1.99.34 released: some minor changes and bug fixes2020-04-18: new official website launched (this one)2020-03-28: Mandelbulb3D V1.99.33 released: some useful additions to the Navigator2020-02-29: Mandelbulb3D V1.99,32 released: new ZBuf16Bit-module2019-11-30: Mandelbulb3D V1.99.28 released: update to BulbTracer22019-11-23: Mandelbulb3D V1.99.27 released: major update to BulbTracer22019-10-26: Mandelbulb3D V1.99.12 released: update to BulbTracer22019-10-11: Mandelbulb3D V1.99.7 released: new BulbTracer2-module2017-08-27: Mandelbulb3D V1.99 released: improved point-cloud-export2017-08-13: Mandelbulb3D V1.98 released: point-cloud-export2016-03-12: Mandelbulb3D V1.91 released: integrated mesh-generator2015-12-24: Mandelbulb3D V1.90 released: animated height-maps and MutaGen
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New features
M.C. rendernew M.C. batch render-submodulefixed *.m3p-export from within the Animation-window
Navigatornew option to draw guides (center point, rule of thirds and the golden ratio)new option to increase Quality in "HiQual"-Mode (by decreasing RayStep multiplier in steps of 0.05)
New module ZBuf16Bit-module which allows you to create high-quality depth-maps/z-buffers. Those maps can be used in MB3D itself, of course ñ but are also suited to create very interesting effects in other 3D-packages like Octane Render (e.g. as displacement maps).
Documentation
Mandelbulb.com - by Matthew HaggettMandelbulb3D/Reference - by Aaron F. RossOriginal article about the discovery of the Mandelbulb - by Daniel WhiteWikipedia article about the Mandelbulb
Community
Mandelbulb Maniacs Group - at Facebook
Report a bug
You may report bugs directly to the author via email (You can find the email adress inside the README-files of the downloaded *.zip-file)
Please take your time to describe your problem as precisely as possible and provide the following information:What did you do?What did you expect to happen?What happened instead?When possible, please provide an example. We will not share them, but usually they help a lot to analyze a problem
Great Fractal Art
Deviant Art Page - of Hal Tenny
Tutorials
The Complete Guide to Creating Infinite 3D Worlds - by Matteo Scappin
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About Mandelbulb3D
Mandelbulb3D (as well as the Mandelbulb itself) was initially invented at the forum fractalforums.com. The software (also known as „MB3D") was written by the user Jesse. He used a combination of Delphi (for simplicity and speed of development) and 32 Bit assembly (for speed). Version 1.0 of Mandelbulb3D was released by Jesse in 2010. After releasing a lot of updates Jesse retired, his final update was 1.89 so far.
I took over the project in 2015 and pushed the source code to GitHub. So I’m the current (and only, unfortunately) maintainer of MB3D and continously am creating new releases since this time.
In fact, this was never intented by me. When I took over the project there where a lot of people which offered their help. But, it turned out, that the combination of Delphi and 32 Bit assembly code as well as the need to use a commercial development environment (Delphi IDE) does not really attract developers. I understand this, it is really a challenge to work with this code base, and any change may be easily a breaking change.
Improvements over the original version
Since the latest version from Jesse, I created about 10 releases so far, and added the following improvements:ZBuf16Bit-module to create z-buffes/depth-maps in high qualityBTracer2-module to create high-quality meshes (in nearly unlimited resolution) from within Mandelbulb3DIntegrated module to generate heightmaps from arbitrary meshesMutaGen-module to easily explore new combinations of formulas and settingsIntegrated formula-editor for creating/editing JIT-compiled formulasSupport for animated (height)mapsNavigator-size may be adjustedGlobal rework of the UI, added theme-support
Source code of the project
The source code of the project is public and currently hosted at GitHub.
About myself
My name is Andreas Maschke aka „overwhale“ and I’m creating software for about 30 years. I'm working with very different languages and technologies, and I have still fun to learn new stuff. And, I'm still a fan of the Delphi-language.
I'm in charge with many other software-projects, but also have a lot of other interests, including growing chillies, weight-lifting and reading books.
Hints:
replacing the Mandelbulb3D.exe in most cases is sufficient to perform an updateeach release usually contains a README-file which contains useful informationa Mac-version is currently not available because the most recent macOS does not run Wine
Downloads (Windows 32Bit)Mandelbulb3D V1.99.37 – (2023-03-05) (*.zip-archive)Mandelbulb3D V1.99.36 – (2023-02-07) (*.zip-archive)Mandelbulb3D V1.99.35 – (2022-07-24) (*.zip-archive)Mandelbulb3D V1.99.34 – (2020-05-04) (*.zip-archive)Mandelbulb3D V1.99.33 – (2020-03-28) (*.zip-archive)Mandelbulb3D V1.99.32 – (2020-02-29) (*.zip-archive)Mandelbulb3D V1.99.28 – (2019-11-30) (*.zip-archive)Mandelbulb3D V1.99.27 – (2019-11-23) (*.zip-archive)Mandelbulb3D V1.99.12 – (2019-10-26) (*.zip-archive)Mandelbulb3D V1.99 – (2017-08-27) (*.zip-archive)Mandelbulb3D V1.98 – (2017-08-13) (*.zip-archive)
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