Don Casteel won a First Prize award of $5,000 from the Sun Grid Cool Apps Developer Contest for his 3D Fractal Rendering project. The application assists in the creation, rendering, and animation of IFS fractals in full 3D as volumetric density fields.
It was insipred by Apophysis and ElectricSheep, written in 100% pure Java – J3D, developed in NetBeans with the ComputeServer module and rendered on the SunGrid computeServer. You'll want to check out the animated render to get an idea of what the program can do… amazing! Congrats on winning the 5K, Don!