Comments on: Intensely psychedelic "fractal" architecture animation

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ahhh, Fractint! Loved that one on my Pentium II 90Mhz, as well. Nice work on the video here, regardless.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

this should be electric sheep’s successor! the awesomeness warrants the collective cpu power of many systems

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It looks like what M.C. Escher would produce if asked to design a cathedral in a higher dimension.

By: camelot@mac.com

camelot@mac.com — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nice, but warn people to turn OFF their speakers first, dammit! The audio track is pure obnoxious even if the visuals are stunning.

By: codesuidae

codesuidae — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maybe my understanding of fractals is wrong, but if you zoomed into a certain section of it and kept aiming for the smaller versions of that section, couldn’t you just render or animate a few seconds and repeat?

Well, fractal self-similarity doesn’t necessarily imply that the stuff at smaller scales is visually indistinguishable from stuff at larger scales. Certainly there are fractals where an infinite zoom can be represented as a simple cycle.

However, while of course everyone has their own idea of beauty and so generally speaking, people who spend a lot of time looking at fractal zooms tend to like structure that exhibits both variety and self-similarity such that exploration provides the kind of interesting tours seen in the video.

I’d love to see some of these Mandelbox videos in anaglyph 3D.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Very cool. Does the software employ the fractal formulas from the mathematician Mendelbrot?

By: Tugg

Tugg — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It depends on the fractal that you are talking about.

For example, the Sierpinski triangle is mostly just triangles within triangles within triangles – you could get a similar infinite-zoom effect doing what you described. It’s not nearly as interesting though.

However, the Mandelbrot set is far more complex, and the further you zoom in – the more complex and varied the patterns get, and zooming in on different parts of the set gets different results. It’s not just the same patterns repeating over and over. Maybe look at a view 3D-zooms of the set and you’ll see how varied the patterns actually are.

When combined with 3D exploration of the set – the structures get even more interesting and varied.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Music is Dajuin Yao : “Satisfaction of Oscillation”.

(ubu: http://is.gd/el2VN)

What a pleasure to see and hear! ^_^

â™¤jm

By: Tugg

Tugg — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

ie: http://vimeo.com/1908224 – is a nice Mandelbrot zoom, it goes on for quite awhile and you see a nice array of patterns – it’s not just the same few seconds looped over and over.

By: kaini

kaini — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i also render mandelbulb/mandelbox stuff for fun; i’ve a gallery of stuff hosted at http://richardpfeynman.deviantart.com/

By: MachineElf

MachineElf — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Eek, flashback!! Tell the Machine Elves that I liked their gifts, really I did, but I won’t be coming back to see them again.

That was intense Pesco, thanks. :)

By: zikman

zikman — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

oh god don’t do this to me

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

ugh gave me an ayahuasca flashback. Very cool, very true to form (audio included) but made me nauseous as hell and I swear the LCD screen is swimming a bit.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/user/xenopusRTRT

The films here are not of the Mandelbulb, but they are films of fractal geometry — a different kind of fractal geometry.

http://www.youtube.com/xenopusRTRT#p/u/9/i404Ycs-K3Y

By: certron

certron — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

How do you preview such a path through the object to find the ‘interesting’ parts without doing a full render? Am I correct in noting that there is no ‘textured’ portions, that the entire thing is structure? I guess you could turn the iteration level down a bit, but that’s were the interesting parts come from!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

if you like this, you should definitely check out the ‘mandelbox trip’ from a few months ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO9ugnn8DbE
i think he used fogging to decrease rendering time

By: Ant

Ant — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I want a screen saver of this. :P

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Hold up here and wait for my signal to start your run.”

Simply gorgeous. I could stare at this all day.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This looks very, very similar to the visions I had long time ago when I fell into a K-hole.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

For those who like mandelbox/mandelbulb and other similar 3D fractal zooms, they can watch many more on my Youtube channel : http://www.youtube.com/user/bib993
All the last ones were done with the same software as the first video shown in this post.

By: dman

dman — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This brings TEARS to my eyes.
The year I read the Scientific American description of the maths behind the Mandelbrot (1990), I commandeered a suite of proto-pcs and ran my home-brew mandelbrot generator on it. Several DAYS of computing power produced a handful or 320×240 16-color single-frame renderings of some mandelbrot slices.

I petitioned my school to get a copy of “Nothing but Zooms” and will NEVER forgive my brother for taping over my copy with his cartoons.

To see this production is – beyond-words.

By: Shelby Davis

Shelby Davis — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oh wow. When I was in highschool I used Fractint (an ancient program running a windowless GUI) and painstakingly generated thousands of low-rez 2D images before stringing them, stop-motion style, into a clip. (Actually looked a heck of a lot like the Nothing but Zooms video dman linked to, which I hadn’t been aware of either until today.)

To see this–amazing.

By: anansi133

anansi133 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I used to want to live in a house that would look like that, but now all I can think of is how hard it would be to keep clean.

By: hadlock

hadlock — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I find it interesting how poorly the usually excellent Vimeo HD compression works when compressing Mandelbrot set visualizations.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Check out this Mandelbox/Mandelbulb hybrid fly through.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FoupqgbDkk

By: JasonsRobot

JasonsRobot — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well I am a film director or something and I’m impressed.

By: eviladrian

eviladrian — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

These fractal zoom things always make me feel that this stuff is just like out there (in there?) waiting to be found in some Platonic realm, probably with little Rudy Rucker stoner monsters jumping around them.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

as a fan of the mandlebrot set and dmt i am very pleased by this

By: MachineElf

MachineElf — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Funnily, I think anyone that has had a full-blown psychedelic experience would say that the audio track could not be more apt for the visuals.

By: benher

benher — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am fascinated, attracted, and repulsed by the Mandlebulb all at the same time. At times I find the complexity beautiful and inviting, but at other times, I find that it gives me, for lack of a better word… the heebie jeebies. Like something out of a Lovecraftian world – staring at the face of infinity given form. It seems that exploiting this form visually could potentially empower the renderer to drive his viewers mad.