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Ever since my first Atari ST, I wanted to render something like this.
Over the years I did some attempts, but never to any satisfaction, until recently :-)
There is still a lot to be done, but it's getting there.
Rendering times are killing me (1000 frames@720p in 72 hours) but I found it worth the wait :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Do-jiJDZd4
(fixed video)

wow, nice landscape/water rendering, and reasonably deep, well done !

this gives the term "fractal coastline" a totally new meaning :D

Very nice, really looks like an island.

Nice! I don't think I've seen such real textures before in a Mandelbrot zoom.

You ought to put some sound/music to that, even it's just a whooshing / flying through the air sound. Also, an idea may be start of slow and get faster (or vice versa), and the whoosh sound can get lower/higher in sync.

I also really liked this. Yes added audio would be great.  I find they can really add to mood/tone.  I recently started to play with lanscapes & textures.  The fog looks similar to the "plasma" in Chaos.

that is one impressive animation! I love it - O0 the fog is a nice touch to..

Very cool. I've been wanting to experiment both with tilting the viewplane relative to the optic axis so it looks like you're coming in at an angle, and also with pseudo-3D by converting the counts to heights. You've combined both effects here into a cool zoom.