This 3D creation is impressive, but the original Mandelbrot set has far deeper impact on me [not parent poster]. Since I was a kid I've been fascinated by these forms; by the infinite intricacy, the simultaneous multilevel self-similarity -- it just sucks you in. It's beautiful but also at times I can feel it to be sickening and horrifying, like a poison. I can't help feeling there is some kind of essential life force in such constructions, in the spaces between order and randomness. It also reminds me of the ideas I've read behind William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell".