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Not a coral

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Over the past year, some users on Facebook have taken a fractal work of mine, posted some years ago here at Deviantart, stating that was a new found species of coral from the Galapagos Islands. It wouldn't have transcended very much, beside being one more post inside the big ocean what is Internet, but with time it became viral and became shared hundreds of thousands of times over FB and Internet. It became controversial and even newspapers had to check it and state it as fake news.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/03/31/fact-check-image-coral-near-galapagos-islands-digital-art/4819768001/ https://www.vishvasnews.com/english/viral/fact-check-post-claiming-to-show-a-new-species-of-coral-found-in-the-galapagos-islands-is-fake/ 3D fractals are relatively a recent discovery, being an approximation of a 3D set of the original Mandelbrot set and named as Mandelbulbs.

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A new video tutorial on how to do kleinian shapes with Mandelbulber


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How to do organic shapes with Mandelbulber.


Update: added English subtitles for better comprehension.
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:icondoll-ladi: asked me to pass an update from Barbara's son, so more people could read it.

XxFireBlazeWolfxX said the following:

Hello, Sorry its been so long without letting you guys hear anything its been a very busy few months. Barbara is doing alright.

She was in the nursing home for about 5 months she got out on jan 29th, nursing home told us to take her home cause staffing was inadequate to watch and take care of her anymore. We brought her home and she is making amazing progress in getting better.

She no longer has the tracheotomy pipe no more, so she is breathing fine on her own now. She still has a gastric feeding tube in for the time being cause swallowing is still iffy. But her speech has returned and she remembers you guys.

Its gonna be a long road but I think she will get back to the way she was before the surgery she had. Me and my brother and father are taking good care of her. Right now as I type this msg out she is on her computer browsing the DA Gallery's it'll be a long time before she logs in again. But she still likes to look around.

I'm still sorry it took so long to get back with everyone. Its been hectic getting into the swing of things. Things are calming down somewhat and getting things into some sort of normalcy.

Barbara stills love you all. She is working on getting better and getting back to doing what she loves doing. Its just going to be awhile longer.
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