Thought this was cool 8)
Mandelbox trip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO9ugnn8DbE#ws)
That is geogeous.
I want the software that generates it.
Best fractal I've seen in ages.
Your wish is my command : http://sourceforge.net/projects/mandelbulber/ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mandelbulber/)
That was neat in fullscreen
As I watched the video (Data's right... MUCH cooler in full screen mode!), several thoughts hit me at different times:
1.) I wonder if the universe, with all of it's myriad stars, nebulae, galaxies and galaxy clusters, is laid out in some sort of 3D fractal lattice. String theory just popped into my mind, presumably just to mess with my psyche.
2.) At several points in the video, I more than half expected the camera to zoom in on a random bit of structure, and treating us to a view of some minuscule D&D/Final Fantasy characters, battling it out with some outrageously huge/tiny monster.
3.) Just as I was thinking about the fantasy adventurers (around 1:53), here came, seemingly leaping out of the very structure of the object, a huge face that was reminiscent of the very monster I had envisioned but a brief moment before, which lead me to think, "I REALLY need to lay off the mind altering drugs!" :D
1) Yes, the universe is fractal. It's generally laid out in a bubble latice laid over a hyperbolic parabaloid (sadle shape).
2) That's just your psyche, deal with it.
3) I see a face in the center, slightly to the right at 1:53. This is pareidolia and human brains are hard wired for it. Many people see it without the use of drugs, so keep taking them :thumbsup:
Large scale structure of the universe video...
Large-scale structure of the Universe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFlzyxSQhTc#)
Quote from: Freddy on December 07, 2011, 17:39:10 PM
Your wish is my command : http://sourceforge.net/projects/mandelbulber/ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mandelbulber/)
This is a cool piece of software. Thank you Freddy.
I just rendering the examples and it's using all my 4 cores to max for several mins for 1 pic. ;D
Wow, Really Snowy? Which example did you render that took so long? So far, every image I've rendered has taken under a minute. Of course, I've not yet figured out how everything works, so most of what I've rendered has been fairly simple, and I haven't tried all of the examples yet. I'm still finding some amazing images, though. :)
Multi core support, impressive, does it use the GPU as well? That would be perfection :P
The program is utterly amazing, but it has more settings than there are fleas at the dog pound. It's a bit to take in, all at once. :)
Oh good nice to see you guys getting creative, post some up on YouTube so we can all have a gander 8)
As soon as I can wring some coherence from the animation, I certainly will. Right now what I've got is a series of "jumps" to different locations, and it looks bad (as an animation... the individual images look fine). :)
The 'FractalCubistCheese (http://www.datahopa.co.uk/forum/gallery/wallpapers-1920-x-1080/fractalcubistcheese/153)' pic I've posted took about 3-4 mins.
Once you've found one you like, try upping the res in the 'Image' tab.
I take off the 'depth of field' setting in the 'Post Effects' tab most of the time.
Not tried any animation yet.
I'm somewhat contending with some C2D problems with the app right now that I haven't got sorted out quite yet, so I'm not having a lot of luck making anything to show, but have a look at this thread (http://www.vrconsulting.it/vhf/topic.asp?whichpage=1&TOPIC_ID=1269侑) over at VHF. Mikmoth is doing some stellar things with the program! :)
(I'm seriously jealous!)
Found some settings here...
https://sites.google.com/site/mandelbulber/example-settings
That site has a manual of sorts.
I'm getting better. Still trying to work out some parameters that give better quality image on high res. Will post my findings.
I broke down and installed the 64 bit version on the laptop, and so far no crashes. I suspect that the desktop may have a bad SSD after all, as it's irretrievably crashed again this morning. I'm going to have to re-install Windows, then run some tests on the drive. {SIGH!} :'(
Ok, folks. This is a first attempt, so be gentle, please.
First Fractal Animation Attempt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGTjs0y0E7k#)
And now it's time for bed. :)
I like it. :)
For the first attempt it's not bad at all, short but sweet.
Nice one Dave, if that's your first attempt, I can't wait to see what you will produce later. :sign-great-job:
Nice one - it's like flying into a Borg ship 8)
If you've checked out mikmoth's images from the VHF link I've provided, then you've seen a still of the next one I want to do. It's the one with the iridescent globules and the spikes.
I've sort of changed my mind. The attached image is the first frame of the new animation - 960 frames, that will take around 16 hours to render, and another 4 to upload to YouTube (most likely), and around a minute to watch. :-\
Once the animation render is complete, I'll do a full sized render of that first frame, and of any other frames that look interesting.
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Looks something like a city, and looking forward to the vid.
It's just after 3PM here, and I started the render around 2 hours ago. It's now on frame 190 of 960, or about 20% complete. At this rate, we're looking at between 11PM and 1AM local time for it to complete.
Better late than never, I guess. :) But a few warnings, first:
1.) Until I get the animation controls figured out, this will be the last animation render, for quite a few reasons (some more obvious than others).
2.) This video is REALLY ROUGH, and I debated with myself whether to post it, or just delete it.
3.) Don't worry about being gentle. I was probably tougher on myself than you folks could be. :P
Ok, enough excuses and stalling:
3d Fractal Render - PHALE! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdnZs9epwpQ#)
The whole idea here was to do a quick cruise around, to see various things in the environment. Problem is, I had some trouble with the coordinates in a couple of spots, and would have had to render the entire animation again, just to fix them, and that just wasn't going to happen. The final frame count was something on the order of 1,085 total frames, because I had to insert some text effects to "hide" the worst of the glitches. From now on, I think I'll stick to the still images. :)
Still a good effort, ok maybe not 10 out of 10 but getting there.
I guess if we made some nice and unique hi-res fractal wallpapers for the gallery that would be good for the site, so I'm more than happy for some of them, or any stills really :)
Found this animation using mandelbulb and other things.
CGI VFX Demo HD: "250,000,000 Particles Mandelbulb Render Using Arnold 4.0" by - Juanjo González (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4wy_oc6Y3A#ws)
Amazing, looks like dough...uber dough... :thumbsup: ;D
That's awesome, Snowy! Great find!
If/when I get that computer upgrade I'll have to re-install Mandelbulb and play with it again. :)