An example showing the Julia set displayed as a z-warped surface.
The Julia set is a fractal (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_set ). We display it here in a canyon-like view using mlab’s surf function: enthought.mayavi.mlab.surf().
Source code: julia_set.py
# Author: Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org>
# Copyright (c) 2008, Enthought, Inc.
# License: BSD Style.
from enthought.mayavi import mlab
import numpy as np
# Calculate the Julia set on a grid
x, y = np.ogrid[-1.5:0.5:500j, -1:1:500j]
z = x + 1j*y
julia = np.zeros(z.shape)
for i in range(50):
z = z**2 -0.70176 -0.3842j
julia += 1/float(2+i)*(z*np.conj(z) > 4)
# Display it
mlab.figure(size=(400, 300))
mlab.surf(julia, colormap='gist_earth', warp_scale='auto', vmax=1.5)
# A view into the "Canyon"
mlab.view(65, 27, 390, [ 6., -47, 169])
mlab.show()