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Using Tglad's "Amazing fractal" http://www.fractalforums.com/3d-fractal-generation/amazing-fractal/ implemented by David Makin for Ultrafractal http://www.fractalforums.com/mandelbulb-implementation/update-to-the-mmf-wip-formula-for-ultra-fractal/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pbrn6mzPqw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWVRHl5qB-M

Wow, those are really nice! :)
The second one is totally crazy and looks a lot like certain modulo-functions.

Great music too!

Beautiful!  :thumbsup1:

One the first one, where the box "thins out" at time, are you changing the scale or are you just reducing the DE size? They both give new insight, I think, into the the shape of this object..

Thanks :)
To "thin out" the box, I just lower the solid threshold parameter in Dave Makin's formula.

Some more vids :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocZba9QF4Iw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYc590G0aIE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRSLJE2F_JA

This is a really cool fractal, and really cool "out of the box"-videos Bib

Just had an "out of the box" experience...  O0

and one more :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bpA4yq-vCE

that shows nice shapes, i wonder if this object would seamlessly tile when displayed beside eachothers ( in all dimensions =)

It depends on what you mean by "seamlessly tiled". As the global shape is a cube, of course that would tile. If your question is more to know if the corners of 2 cubes next to each other do the same shape as in the middle of an edge, I think the answer is no.

Increduble stuff! Thanks for sharing :) O0

for example at second 37 in the variations video, it looks like a tile to me ... , more the center of it,
if you cut out the lines you get a nice tile-able texture, but also the whole seems to be tiling

I think it would tile smoothly, because of the symmetry inherent in the shape. All vertices look like alike, no matter how they are rotated, reflected, or replaced with one another. I think it might even be similar... (haha all the conformal mappings)

excellent videos - looks awesome in youtube HD  :D

A shallow zoom onto a mini cube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZJ3B2giRqo

(http://www.fractalforums.com/gallery/1/492_17_02_10_10_52_21.jpeg)
http://www.fractalforums.com/gallery/1/492_17_02_10_10_52_21.jpeg

Flight inside Mandelbox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W92gRDc_8-Y

Thanks for contributing to this thread. Your animation is by far the best!

amazing animation :D

Bib - nice anims and slices. Great stuff!

Buddhi - Incredible fly-throughs! INCREDIBLE!\

 :) :) :)

Great animation Buddhi!

Thanks!

In a 2D Trance Mandala style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMSulDloL1Y

The animation based on Tglad's sequence http://www.fractalforums.com/images-showcase-(rate-my-fractal)/interior-shots-of-the-mandelbox/msg13150/#msg13150

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h7Rtv9kflo

Amaze me non stop...

The first one you should be able to sell to eMpTyVee bib
 O0 O0 O0 O0

Cool, the first vid you think I could sell is probably the only one where I did absolutely nothing except use the power of my PC to render somebody else's work!! :(:(:( this is encouraging :):):) I'm glad my goal is not to make money out of fractals, I would be starving ;-)

IMHO this is the best fractal video I've seen (of any fractal) ;)

Because you are a connoisseur ;) Most people think the best fractal videos are Mandebrot set deep zooms, which could be great too!

The current vid rendering on my PC is based on the same fractal, so wait for a few days for more fun! But I will probably put it on hold to keep some CPU to play with Buddhi's renderer for Windows :)

Bib this is awesome. Is the light source moving with you? I wonder about the huge shadow moving from left to right around 18"-20" in. The only thing I wish was added to the video was the initial entry to the box so we could imagine what scale we were at relative to the whole thing.

I am intrigued by the "railroad track" on the floor (and ceiling!) of the big chamber... and, when you look to the left and we see a yellow outline, is that the outside? Would we see the same (but reflected) if we looked to the right?

Thank you for these inspiring vids!

Yes there is some ambient light plus one light source which is moving with the camera.

In my next video you will see a global view of the cube before we enter into it and follow the "rail"

And yes the yellow outline is the outside. And yes if we looked to the right we would see the same (reflected).

I do actually find mandelbrot deep zooms to be the best fractal video's. The mandelbrot set is an interesting fractal with alot of variety. But it's such a simple fractal that everybody can render a deep zoom, so it's nothing special anymore.

Keep up the good work, your video's are special! I like that too, to see fractals I had never seen before.

So here is the next one...a little travel through the cube...
There are plenty other things I could do, but I feel I am at a point where I need some new inspiration and motivation. Maybe I spent too much time fractaling in the last 6 months...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe0tXvepoUI

Beautiful! Like floating through celestial ice caves.

Great video again, Bib!
I think the last one is one of the best ive ever seen, at least from the box (hard to say one is the best because every one is unique).
It gives a very good impression from the complexity + structure of the box!

Of course, Buddhi's one is great too.

Bib:
> Maybe I spent too much time fractaling in the last 6 months...

Nooo...!! Don't stop, your vids are amazing, I get a little surge of excitement every time I see there's a new one. This one was no disappointment. It's one of the first I've seen where the camera isn't pointed in the direction of travel, and to me that makes it very dramatic. I would love to see more like this, sailing gracefully through the box, but with more twists and turns in the maze, looking all around as you travel.

What Mandelbox variation is that Bib? That gives the shards of ice effect.

The fact that the camera is not in the movement direction makes it difficult to navigate not in a straight line, due to the way navigations and rotations are currently implemented in UF by David Makin. I am planning to do a more evolved vid, but it will be probably only 90° turns, otherwise the navigation is almost impossible and mostly based on luck.

It's a scale 2, almost the same than in the animation based on your sequence of stills.

It must be a different formula though, the box looks different from the outside as well as the inside.

Apart from a few differences at the beginning (where the camedra is outside) and the end of the video, I forgot to mention the main difference compared to your sequence is the Spherical power: 1 instead of 2.
At the beginning (global view), the spherical power is 2 and becomes 1 when entering the cube. Also the Scale goes from 2.5 to 2.

Bib, if you want to take a break, then do so. It has been a privilege seeing your amazing works, but I know one can sometimes overdo fractal exploration. At the end of the day, you are doing this for yourself, and not for us.

I only came here because I had stumbled over the Mandelbulb and wanted to contribute a single idea. But since I found fractalforums, a new type of fascinating 3d fractal seems to be found every single week. You and a few others are always particularly quick in producing beautiful images and movies. You always have a good eye for interesting spots. I don't think I could keep up this speed without growing tired.

Take your time. And hopefully after a while, you'll return with yet more dazzling imagery.

All your animations are great bib, just because it looks like a vid on eMTyVee doesn't mean it is the best you did.  :'(
Take a short fractal-break (a couple of hours ;9 ), and then come back!!!  O0
Johan

Bib, I also want to say that you are the most productive fractal maniac. Your animations are amazing. I waiting for more animations from you!

Thanks for your support guys :)
Animations are very time consuming. For the rendering of course (I would say that my Mandelbulb animations took 3 to 7 days in average) but for the design as well. Going (or zooming) in straight line is not so difficult once you have found an interesting spot, but doing more complex flight paths is very difficult (to me) with the tools I use.
So I think I will do more images than videos in the near future.
Even though the quality of my "work" is not top notch, I have always tried to bring some unseen features to the fractalforumers' and youtubers' attention, say a different point of view (to my knowledge there is nobody else having tried to do deep zooms of the Mandelbulb). Maybe I need to come back to my earlier set of mind: doing it only for my own pleasure, not caring about doing very "polished" images/vids. It's always a matter of finding a compromise between quality and speed of production. I like both. I'm not the kind of fractalist (I would not dare calling myself an artist) who will come back again and again to the same image until I found the perfect colors, combination of layers, etc...On the other hand, I try at least not to do pictures/vids that are too similar to each other. Do you remember the debate about a certain person who was proud to have done xxx tens of thousands of (uninteresting) fractals ? This is something I want to avoid. I try to have a balanced approach.

Doing it for your own pleasure is the key phrase bib!

I have spent whole weekends carrying my laptop around the house, waiting for the rendering to finish to start the next one.
I will do this as long it still feels interesting, then I will probably carry on to something else... But I think I will continue the exploration of 3D-mandels for quite a while longer.
And I did settle for still images, because I want maximum detail  O0 O0 O0 O0

Anyway, hope to see more renderings from you here, in whatever form!
I have enjoyed all so far!

Johan

Hi

After many days of rendering I can present new Mandelbox animation in HD resolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgdN5yO39UI

Animation was rendered using Mandelbulber 0.21
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mandelbulber/

That's an incredible animation! Is there some way to keep the light source constant, so the shadows aren't always moving? It's distracting...  :sad1:

It's a nice background, btw...  :D

Good suggestion about the light source. I will add option to my program to set constant direction of the light.

Hmm...
VERY Nice :D
I have an idea for the lighting:
Maybe you could do an HDR-version of the Buddhabrot, mapped to the Riemann Sphere (so, the samples aren't reduced to 0-255 or 0.0-1.0 but rahter to 0.0-2.5 or something)

It's a great idea to combine this as background with that :D

Incredible video, just perfect.
The shadow doesnt disturbs me here, it gives some extra information. (for all the hours calculation time, it would be a bit waste to fix the shadow pattern on the surface... maybe)

Woah!!! Breathtaking Buddhi!
This is 2 much! ;)

THANK YOU for rendering/sharing!!

Wowzy.

That makes Mandelbulber next on my list of programs to try!

Great work.

Excellent work Buddhi.  I love how the buddhabrot is staring down from the menacing red sky.

In a less realistic style than Buddhi's: :):)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcbBwVuz75o

@bib, I like this kaleidoscope effect. Your videos are never boring :)

Cool bib, the start makes me think of Silicon Valley and chips, then this rapid hippie-elevation down the different shapes @:-I

Mandelbox variant with

if m<r         m = m/sqrt(r)
  else if m<1 m = 1/sqrt(m)

Instead of:

if m<r         m = m/r^2
  else if m<1 m = 1/m^2


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD3sLgBNXOM

Hello fractalforums!

This is my first attempt with this magnificent software, Mandelbulb 3D.
http://www.vimeo.com/13886600
check out the youtube version too

I know nothing about formulas,or parameters, just played around and this was the result  :banana:
So i dont know what should be its correct name or is the simple "mandelbox" is right?

Rendering time was 12 days on 1280x720 resolution and with "2" antialiasing.
I wanted to zoom much deeper but at the end part a single frame took 18 minute to render but at the first frames this time was 2-3 minute.
Maybe a noob question, but is it possible with some parameter adjusting to zoom more deeper with the same frame calculating time?

Hello and Welcome!

Nice first effort.

Unfortunately, deeper zooms will always take longer to render.  It's a thing that happens with all fractals - deeper zooms = more math = more calculation time.

No way around that one.

But I can say that 18 minutes for a frame is not that bad!

We have people here who let animations run for months on end   O0

Patience is needed (and an extra offline computer to dedicate exclusively to rendering is also helpful).

And yes, Mandelbox is as good a name as any for that particular fractal.

I look forward to seeing more from you. 

Not really, as Sockratease already mentioned. You can only try a lower accuracy setting, for the Box or IFS fractals a value of 3 is often working, but that depends on the specific fractal parameters.

However, with antialiasing it is always slow, i hope i can do a faster aa in the next version.

And not at least: very nice zoom!

Thanks for the answers!

Then it is just a question of the CPU strenght? i guess

Keep going Jesse. This all mandelbulb thing and these softwares are incredibly amazing!  :D so many possibilities

Greetings, and Welcome to this particular Forum !!!    :)

Jesse has created a very nice piece of software, and it should bring you many hours of interesting exploration.  Looking forward to your future efforts with the program.
 

Thank you Nahee!  ^-^
Here is my newest effort:
http://vimeo.com/14733451
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co4Sql0aVXM

Inspired by Rathinagiri's work
http://www.fractalforums.com/images-showcase-%28rate-my-fractal%29/my-3d-stereo-fractals/

The rendering time was nearly 1 month :hurt:
I had to rotate manually every keyframe and render separately for the left eye. Not that difficult, but in the next Mandelbulb 3D version maybe a stereo option would be very nice.

Great stereographic effect.
 

Good work, i wish i had a 3d system... crosseyed it is not so easy to follow.
But what i see and hear is very good!
3d animation would not be so difficult to do, letting always 2 images rendered...
are there standard values for rotations and probably shiftings?

Just hold your eyes horizontally, then it's easy  :dink:


First I rotated with the 3D navigator, but that wasn't so good, needed some correction shift or zoom.
Then I found that a simple rotate in the main program with 6-11 units (depends on what depth you want) produces nice 3D effect.

My problem is that i see crosseyed unsharp, so i took two lenses to see sharper, but the lenses were not exactly the same.
That could explain why it was not so easy to align the images  :dink:


I see, the rotation in the main window was once made because of this feature.
Though i may find a function that fits better for the 3D effect.