Title: Split point (mandelbox zoom) Post by: teamfresh on June 10, 2010, 12:00:23 AM http://vimeo.com/12438568
HD is ON! so hit full screen! if you have a slow line just click the HD icon on the player to switch it off http://www.hd-fractals.com/split-point/ Split point is a slow deep zoom into the mandelbox. but mainly it was an experiment. After rendering my first few animations of the mandelbox - I found my camera skills leaving a lot to be desired, when it came to moving around and into the mandelbox! Some movements were too quick and jerky - whilst others took too long to play out. So I have been trying my video editing skills to resolve the problem. To smooth the camera's pitch and roll, I remapped the time of the fast areas to slow them down, that worked, but although the camera had smoothed out, the animation was very jerky as it was only 4-5frames per seconds at some points. Now you can just blend original frames together to create new ones and put them in between the originals - fine if you have at least 15-20fps to play with but when the frame rate is as low as 4-5fps (normally i render at 30fps) it gives bad results. so instead I used a pixel blending technique to create the brand new frames - so that the video could slow down without the animation losing details. its not perfect but it works :) I have decided they were good results although it led to a longer post production time. The audio we used is from http://90watts.com and it is a deep tech house track called "head of beans" by martin fisher http://90watts.com/releases/9041 Inspired by the house tapes his older sister gave him in the early 90's, Marten Fisher turned his commodore 64 into a studio tool and started producing his first beats. In 2003 he released his first release and nowadays he has build up quite a nice catalog with releases and remixes on labels like 90watts Records, Bad Girls, Strom Recordings, Travels, XXXflicks and of course his own successfull proghouse label Dub=records. So all in all I feel honored to be using his sound! :) Title: Re: Split point (mandelbox zoom) Post by: kram1032 on June 10, 2010, 12:48:13 AM actually I think now it's too slow rather than too fast. Especially the first minute was incredibly slow...
The path itself is nice but it could have been faster... Title: Re: Split point (mandelbox zoom) Post by: bib on June 10, 2010, 12:51:30 AM Excellent!
Title: Re: Split point (mandelbox zoom) Post by: teamfresh on June 10, 2010, 01:35:25 AM Thanks. I agree with both of you :D I still cant get over how dam beautiful this thing is.
Did anyone see the bulls head? above the banana split thingy? the more I watch it, the more I see a big bulls head! crazy! Title: Re: Split point (mandelbox zoom) Post by: cKleinhuis on June 10, 2010, 01:59:10 AM awesome! thanks for the trip, i was flashed when the spike appearead, and it was so smooth, great and even deeper!
O0 Title: Re: Split point (mandelbox zoom) Post by: msltoe on June 10, 2010, 02:40:51 AM Great job! This video gives me a deeper appreciation of the infinite variety within the mandelbox.
Title: Re: Split point (mandelbox zoom) Post by: Tglad on June 10, 2010, 05:08:53 AM I liked the area around 3:50 that was :tool: and lots of unseen before shapes... it kind of has a decaying alien space city feel :alien:
Title: Re: Split point (mandelbox zoom) Post by: KRAFTWERK on June 10, 2010, 09:36:02 AM WOW, this makes STAR WARS feel low-budget ;) Wonder when we see the first sci-fi movi using the mandelbox as a landing site... at the end, was the spacecraft hit by hostile laser-beams? Nice shakey camera effect! O0 Love the "never ending" zoom, great feeling of vastness... |