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Title: "19th Hole Terraces" fractal zoom in HD (XviD and H.264)
Post by: ericbigas on January 02, 2007, 12:38:12 PM
Now available in high-definition 720p XviD and H.264 (x264) at http://ericbigas.com/fractals/19ht

This is the zoom I entered in the Biocursion DVD contest (http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?topic=383.0).  2 minutes; no sound; low-resolution version on Google Video at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8556043221629997664&hl=en

I believe this is the first fractal zoom distributed in HD.  The only other HD fractal animations I know of are the Dreams in High Fidelity flames at http://hifidreams.com (click on the images on the left), though electric shepherd Scott Draves says flames aren't fractals (http://draves.org/blog/archives/000459.html).


Title: Re: "19th Hole Terraces" fractal zoom in HD (XviD and H.264)
Post by: Zoom on January 03, 2007, 05:33:35 AM
That is one amazing animation, and definitely the first I've ever seen at high definition (AND widescreen aspect ratio).

How long did it take to render? If I did something like that with Ultra Fractal it would've taken about a year.


Title: Re: "19th Hole Terraces" fractal zoom in HD (XviD and H.264)
Post by: Sockratease on January 03, 2007, 10:54:10 AM
I'm glad the high speed conection is working today!

That was wonderful!!

Something to which to aspire...


Title: Re: "19th Hole Terraces" fractal zoom in HD (XviD and H.264)
Post by: ericbigas on January 03, 2007, 01:23:29 PM
Thanks much to you both.

It took about two weeks to draw the frames for this movie, Zoom.  By the way, I really like how that long red M-set spike in "Mandelnautics 2" spins out from the centerpoint like a jet's contrail against the blue sky.


Title: Re: "19th Hole Terraces" fractal zoom in HD (XviD and H.264)
Post by: Zoom on January 05, 2007, 04:19:43 AM
By the way, I really like how that long red M-set spike in "Mandelnautics 2" spins out from the centerpoint like a jet's contrail against the blue sky.
Thanks! I was just borrowing a page from that Mandelbrot documentary from years ago for which Pink Floyd did the music. They had lots of renders like that.