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Title: 19th Hole Terraces - fractal zoom
Post by: ericbigas on November 29, 2006, 09:24:20 AM
Count me in.  I'd love a copy of the Biocursion DVD.  The sample clips look great.

My entry is a just-released zoom into the Mandelbrot set.
* A low-res streaming version is on Google Video at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8556043221629997664&hl=en
* A high-res downloadable version is at http://ericbigas.com/fractals/19ht/19th_Hole_Terraces.mpg

The high-res version is 640x360, 60 megabytes, and in MPEG-1 (.mpg) format.  It'll play on any computer and doesn't require additional software.


Title: Re: 19th Hole Terraces - fractal zoom
Post by: Sockratease on November 29, 2006, 09:53:12 AM
Very Nice!

What's the program that created it?

Me Likey!!


Title: Re: 19th Hole Terraces - fractal zoom
Post by: ericbigas on November 29, 2006, 10:05:05 AM
Thanks much.

Made with Escape.  http://quantumpyramid.com/escape/index.php


Title: Re: 19th Hole Terraces - fractal zoom
Post by: bradorpoints on November 30, 2006, 02:14:04 AM
Really nice.  The parallax scrolling in the opening was interesting.  It's obvious you spent some time getting the look you wanted.  You have a really good upload speed - I downloaded your high-res version at almost 500 K/sec.

Was this animtion created on a Mac?


Title: Re: 19th Hole Terraces - fractal zoom
Post by: ericbigas on November 30, 2006, 07:48:04 AM
Thanks.  Glad you saw the hi-res version.  The Flash compression on Google Video (and YouTube) pretty much trashes the image details.  The moire patterns become blurry, blocky mud.

It was designed on a Mac, and the final 3840x2160 frames were drawn on a cluster of Macs.  Escape's feature set is more limited than that of UltraFractal or Fractint, but I like zooms with a lot of parameter interpolation and Escape is well-suited for that.