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Hi all, thought I would join to ask a question that probably has an obvious answer.

To keep it very short, I'm recovering from a severe traumatic brain injury amongst a lot of other things, so my memory is quite poor and my cognitive skills aren't great. I started to dabble with Mandelbulb3D a while before my accident, and I'm relearning it, amongst relearning use of my synthesisers. I like to create the movies and join them with me playing music freehand on my synths, sometimes making movie samples and mixing it all together.

What I don't seem to be able to figure out is how to render the animation frames in such a way that keeps everything looking smooth, without jaggedy (almost pixelated) edges. This video might explain better what I mean. It's not the edges of the movie/screen, it's the edges of lines within the fractal animations that I stuggle with. Sometimes it's not as bad on some movies as some others I make, I just haven't figured out what I might be changing to solve it more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVZhGMv47i4

Thanks for any help.

Antialiasing is indeed a challenge for point clouds like those 3d fractals. In opposite to straight triangular 3d meshes, 3d fractals can only be smoothened by increasing the resolution. scaling the rendering to to double resolution (1280x720 ⇒ 2560x1440) should solve most issues. triple resolution lead to max smoothing, although render time will be around 9 times higher (3x3). mandelbulb3d has a pretty easy and effective filter for antialiasing like that. The workaround for mandelbulber need to be done externally and is pretty easy in VirtualDub with the built in filters.
Hope that helps.

Your help is appreciated very much. If I'm brutally honest I'd been neglecting the antialiasing, even though I'm aware of what it does.  :-

Thanks again.

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I wish you a speedy recovery  :-*