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Mandelbulb 3D v1.8.9: www.fractalforums.com/index.ph…

DEcombinate in InvMax mode using: RandCubesIFS/transform2IFS/gyroidIFS/trans-qIFS/NewMenger2IFS/Menger3
(The moonlit sky was recently shot from our garden!)
Diffuse map courtesy of nighty-stock:

'The great world-circling Girdlecity....
Many Gzilt looked upon it as something they could leave behind when they sublimed - a monument to their genius, vision and power - conveniently forgetting that they hadn't actually built it. They'd spent thousands of years building on and within the vast structure and had added significantly to it, but the original structure, and the concept of it, had not been theirs at all.
The Girdlecity had been built by the Werpesh, an ancient humanoid species themselves long-sublimed. The Gzilt had fallen heir to it, the planet it braceleted and the system itself - along with several other stellar systems - eleven thousand years ago, but despite their long association with, protection of and work on the Girdlecity, the original credit lay elsewhere....'

From 'The Hydrogen Sonata' by Iain M. Banks. www.iain-banks.net/uk/the-hydr…

A larger version of this piece can be viewed, and prints purchased at: markjaybeefractal.com/girdleci…

Description
Mandelbulb 3D v1.8.9: www.fractalforums.com/index.ph…

DEcombinate in InvMax mode using: RandCubesIFS/transform2IFS/gyroidIFS/trans-qIFS/NewMenger2IFS/Menger3
(The moonlit sky was recently shot from our garden!)
Diffuse map courtesy of nighty-stock:

'The great world-circling Girdlecity....
Many Gzilt looked upon it as something they could leave behind when they sublimed - a monument to their genius, vision and power - conveniently forgetting that they hadn't actually built it. They'd spent thousands of years building on and within the vast structure and had added significantly to it, but the original structure, and the concept of it, had not been theirs at all.
The Girdlecity had been built by the Werpesh, an ancient humanoid species themselves long-sublimed. The Gzilt had fallen heir to it, the planet it braceleted and the system itself - along with several other stellar systems - eleven thousand years ago, but despite their long association with, protection of and work on the Girdlecity, the original credit lay elsewhere....'

From 'The Hydrogen Sonata' by Iain M. Banks. www.iain-banks.net/uk/the-hydr…

A larger version of this piece can be viewed, and prints purchased at: markjaybeefractal.com/girdleci…