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05/25/2006 03:54:19 PM · #1 |
I have been fascinated by fractals for more than 20 years now - in fact they are what really stimulated my interest in computers and computer art. One of the earliest and still among the best fractal generators is a freeware DOS program called Fractint.
One user has been working on a zoom into the basic Mandelbrot fractal  for several years now and has just posted his final result. It is well worth checking out! It can be downloaded from his site - WARNING - LARGE FILE!!
The following is an excerpt from the text file which accompanies the video. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do. Be sure to maximize the avi for best effect. WARNING 2 - PSYCHEDELIC!
This was the original idea and intent behind the "Ultimate Fractal Video Project", a Mandelbrot zoom to a depth never before done, at full screen size and high resolution. I had gotten sidetracked over the few years of this effort, making all sorts of other fractal animations,but having as of recent dedicated 3 systems totally to this, the Ultimate Fractal Video Project has been successfully concluded, just in time for the 4th year aniversity of the project.
I think this is truly the Ultimate Fractal Video! A Mandelbrot zoom to a final depth of E+89, and at 1024 x 768 resolution, in AVI format. A far cry from the 320 x 240 and 160 x 120 lame-ass few-second clips I have on CD's from the mid 90's, which were my first introduction to fractal
animation.
The "Universe" viddies are so named because at about E+26, the original Mandelbrot is expanded to approximately the size of the known observable universe, 10-20 billion lite-years. E+89 is way 'beyond the Universe' whatever that means.
The entire sequence took a full 8 months, using 2, and for the last half 3, systems, all running essentially 24/7 except for a few brief interludes when I rendered other fractal animations. The last stretch, 300 frames, going from E+79 -> E+89 alone took exactly 3 months. As zoom depth increases, so does rendering time! The final frame took 18 hours on my fastest system.
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05/25/2006 04:00:08 PM · #2 |
Haha, I used to be obsessed with fractals too, and they are why I got my first 'puter also. That's an absolutely amazing project you just linked us to :-)
R.
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05/25/2006 04:20:21 PM · #3 |
| I also used to dabble in fractal generation, though not videos. Cool stuff. Cripes, what a bunch of processing time! |
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05/25/2006 04:22:32 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
I also used to dabble in fractal generation, though not videos. Cool stuff. Cripes, what a bunch of processing time! |
Yeah. this is bigger than the universe by far, though. God only took 1 day to create the universe, but I think S/He had a much bigger processor...
R.
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05/25/2006 04:55:05 PM · #5 |
"Universe #3 is the deepest Mandelbrot zoom animation ever done, and probably ever to be done."
strong words. a few more iterations of moore's law and we'll be able to do this in real time ;)
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05/25/2006 07:16:25 PM · #6 |
| Thanks for that, there is some pretty cool stuff there. He does also have the video in smaller sizes as well as lots more factal videos here |
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05/25/2006 07:30:55 PM · #7 |
Man I still have fractint lying around on a floppy somewhere. Looking forward to seeing this.
There's some cracking fractal work still going on on devart. creativ82 is one artist that springs to mind.
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05/25/2006 07:39:10 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by k4ffy:
"Universe #3 is the deepest Mandelbrot zoom animation ever done, and probably ever to be done."
strong words. a few more iterations of moore's law and we'll be able to do this in real time ;) |
Actually it's probably possible to do in real-time right now on a supercomputer.
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05/25/2006 08:16:22 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by bod:
There's some cracking fractal work still going on on devart. creativ82 is one artist that springs to mind. |
some of the cool images shown here are created using Apophysis, a freeware (windows only, sorry) tool for creating IFS, or flame, fractals. They have a more organic look than some of the traditional fractal patterns and you can come up with some amazingly awesome patterns and colors.
Some that I created got me through my recent photographic slump.
Check Apo out and give Rikki a run for his money with your own cool fractal backgrounds...
Dave
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05/25/2006 09:40:12 PM · #10 |
DSA-- your fractals are sweet--
I have no idea how to operate the program, but I was messing around and came up with this--
kinda looks like a flamethrower dude-- |
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06/10/2007 12:05:39 PM · #11 |
I recently got Apophysis and have been playing around with it -- these types of designs seem to be popular at stock sites right now. Here are a few of the first ones I did which I liked ...
  
 
Here's another DPC thread on fractal art. |
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