Rightfully, the very first authored evidence of the search for the Holy Grail in 3D came from Rucker, in 1987, in the form of a short story titled “ As Above, So Below ” in it, he imagines the discovery of the Mandelbrot Set in 3D, giving it the name: Mandebulb. Limited by the technology of his time, Rucker did what he did best: he wrote about it. Unfortunately, Rucker understood the computing limits of hardware (in the 80s) & knew that the billions of calculations required were likely painstakingly impossible. A creative, Rucker appreciated the Mandelbrot Set but his fiction imagination propelled him to the next step in the journey: the existence of a mathematically-equivalent 3D structure to the Mandelbrot Set. As a result, he was keenly aware of the Mandelbrot Set almost immediately after Benoit’s original publication. A brilliant mathematician, computer scientist & science fiction author, as well as one of the founders of the cyberpunk cultural movement, Rudy stayed on the cutting-edge of the STEM world. It appears that one Rudy Rucker beat me to the punch by roughly ~33 years. Our initial curiosity indeed satisfied, like many discoveries in math, the uncovered Mandelbrot Set only lead us to a new realm of questions most importantly, perhaps, is that of the equivalent in different dimensions - do fractals exist in different number systems? And more specifically, what’s the 3D equivalent of the Mandelbrot Set?
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