  Quantum Chromodynamics exhibits a hadronic confined phase at low to moderate
temperatures and, at a critical temperature $T_C$, undergoes a transition to a
deconfined phase known as the quark-gluon plasma. The nature of this
deconfinement phase transition is probed through visualizations of the Polyakov
loop, a gauge independent order parameter. We produce visualizations that
provide novel insights into the structure and evolution of center clusters.
Using the HMC algorithm the percolation during the deconfinement transition is
observed. Using 3D rendering of the phase and magnitude of the Polyakov loop,
the fractal structure and correlations are examined. The evolution of the
center clusters as the gauge fields thermalize from below the critical
temperature to above it are also exposed. We observe deconfinement proceeding
through a competition for the dominance of a particular center phase. We use
stout-link smearing to remove small-scale noise in order to observe the
large-scale evolution of the center clusters. A correlation between the
magnitude of the Polyakov loop and the proximity of its phase to one of the
center phases of SU(3) is evident in the visualizations.
