Today's post is a 3D zoom into Terraces_of_Fire, Jim Muth's FOTD for June 6, 2010. This fractal has interesting steps and little structures that look like bleachers. The coloring method is TDIS which enhances the step effect. Here is a link to an image from inside the fractal:

I also made a Quicktime animation (10 sec, 9.6 Mb) that flies down one of the valleys:

 

It took Fracton 57 hours to make the model on my 2 core PowerPC Mac. The 3D image and animation are rendered in Cheetah 3D. Here is a link to Jim's original web page of the fractal: