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Title: Mutatorkammer 3d Movies
Post by: cKleinhuis on May 12, 2007, 01:15:10 PM
Hello

I have managed to render some 3d movies straight out of Mutatorkammer

http://fractalmovies.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=47&Itemid=28

Here are some preview images
(http://fractalmovies.com/images/stories/fractalmovies/3d/mj000732.jpg)
 
(http://fractalmovies.com/images/stories/fractalmovies/3d/mov000011.jpg)


Title: Re: Mutatorkammer 3d Movies
Post by: Sockratease on May 12, 2007, 02:02:38 PM
WOW!

You got the 3D working smoothly!! Very Impressive!!

I can't wait to play with this aspect myself!

You make me wish I studied computers instead of chemistry!!


Title: Re: Mutatorkammer 3d Movies
Post by: lycium on May 12, 2007, 03:54:16 PM
You make me wish I studied computers instead of chemistry!!

*psst* coding is much much easier ;)


Title: Re: Mutatorkammer 3d Movies
Post by: cKleinhuis on May 13, 2007, 01:34:50 PM
@lyc: indeed 

i made just another movie
(http://fractalmovies.com/images/stories/fractalmovies/3d/magnet_000027.jpg)

http://fractalmovies.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=21&func=fileinfo&id=100


Title: Re: Mutatorkammer 3d Movies
Post by: doncasteel8587 on May 14, 2007, 12:41:30 PM
WOW, these are Outstanding!

I love how smooth and fluid they are.


Title: Re: Mutatorkammer 3d Movies
Post by: cKleinhuis on May 15, 2007, 01:43:26 AM
thank you, here is an endless heart zoom, which might interest you also

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf2_xM62608


download here
http://fractalmovies.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=21&func=fileinfo&id=101

(http://fractalmovies.com/components/com_remository_files/file_image_101/img_101_02.jpg)


Title: Re: Mutatorkammer 3d Movies
Post by: Sockratease on August 06, 2007, 11:29:10 AM
While I lack the expertise of trifox, I still try these things!

Here's a short "Blender" type 3D Animation made with the latest Mutatorkammer:

(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/sockratease/th_3dslices1.jpg) (http://s106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/sockratease/?action=view&current=3dslices1.flv)
http://s106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/sockratease/?action=view&current=3dslices1.flv

I'm still working on centering the image in open GL and it needs better lighting, but I like it!

It looked better large and uncompressed...

Still...

Weeee!

Speaking of Weeee...


(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/sockratease/th_slices2.jpg) (http://s106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/sockratease/?action=view&current=slices2.flv)
http://s106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/sockratease/?action=view&current=slices2.flv

I was trying to get a better idea of how the program works by taking an image based formula and removing the image - leaving just the fractal.  That's how I got the 3D Animation.

That's the original 2D Photo-Based Animation. Might as well post it.

It's that Beautiful Woman with whose Image I keep making stuff!

I never claimed to be sane.

What would be the point?

Nobody would believe me anyway...


Title: Re: Mutatorkammer 3d Movies
Post by: Sockratease on August 09, 2007, 01:23:13 PM
I took an old 2D animation and let it render in 3D...  just to see what happened.

Here it is:


(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/sockratease/th_3dpath.jpg) (http://s106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/sockratease/?action=view&current=3dpath.flv)
http://s106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/sockratease/?action=view&current=3dpath.flv

Odd results!!

I like Odd results!!


Title: Re: Mutatorkammer 3d Movies
Post by: twinbee on December 07, 2007, 12:40:06 AM
Trifox,

Wow, what can I say? I'm a sucker for these kind of animations, especially when the frame-rate is as smooth as you have made them. I love the colour schemes you have given each one too, especially that blue/cream/chocolate one.

Suggestions? It's good that you're exploring different types of camera movement (zoom/pan etc.), but it would be nice if each movement gradually smoothed into the next type of movement. Like by using B-Spline curves or something.

Also, the iteration rate seems a little low for some of them - we're getting rounded off hills and valleys, but maybe it can't be helped as speed and the general look would suffer with more iters? Any way of removing the bubbling/boiling effect down at the tiny details by the way (not that I don't like it) ?

Keep up the good work. The way the 'mountains' shrink in each gives them a strange perspective - it's so cool. That 3D Mandelbrot mountain is possibly the best of its type I've ever seen!

PS. Xvid is supposed to have better video quality than Divx...


Title: Re: Mutatorkammer 3d Movies
Post by: cKleinhuis on January 30, 2008, 08:31:22 PM
hey, thank you very much ...

a word about iteration depth when rendering 3d animations:
the problem with higher iteration values is simply that those deep iterated values produce high frequent noise, meaning, the bulbs would bubble up and down randomly, so i choosed to use a slow increase in iteration depth, so that it matches the current zoom state ...

a word about smoothing animation pathes:
in mutatorkammer you can use hermite splines, catmull rom splines and linear interpolation, by now, the problem when you see the stepping is, that the zoom is an exponentional interpolation, wich i did not have managed to interpolate smoothly ... ;( if anyone could give me some hints it would be great ...

a word about camera pathes:
i love the rotations...

a word about divx
i have been using divx since 7 years now, but they are annoying me a little bit with their encoding restrictions, is xvid free ? if yes i will give it a try ...
and don't blame the original codec when watching flash movies :)

if you really like the movies, and the program, i would welcome you as a fractalmovies.com user, to post suggestions directly there, and hit me with a hammer on the head for stupid user interface on mutatorkammer ... ;) i am starting to refactor the mutatorkammer software this year, to provide cool layering functions and stuff ... ;9

i would like to point you to the quasi-quaternion 3d rendering method, a bit like xenodream ;)
http://fractalmovies.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=28
http://fractalmovies.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemid=28



greets