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Hello,

My name's Timothy and I'm a 29 year old musician, graphical artist, father, programmer and entrepreneur from Sweden.

I've been making music for 18 years and the main part has been about Psychedelic Trance.
Since November 2010, I've been starting to promote my music, which eventually involved looking for ways to make videos.

I had seen a friend use Apophysis, but I didn't know what it was called. Some searches later, I discovered the Mandelbox Trip video.


Now, I've started to settle down. But my reaction was... Well...

This is something I wrote to Krzysztof Marczak on deviantART:

Words are not enough to describe the impact this program has done on me.
I feel so stupid and silly saying this, but I haven't been this excited in my entire life.

The world we live in is already explored.
There's now an infinite of worlds to explore.
I do not believe in god, but I do believe in some sort of something which makes things from some sort of something. I choose to call that god and to me, this is the closest I've ever felt to that concept.

It's invigorating.
I don't know how to thank you, words are not enough.

If you happen to enjoy Psychedelic Trance, here's my music:
http://www.ubetoo.com/playlist.aspx?playlistid=1277

hello and welcome to the forums

i do not agree that we have explored the world we live in to a 100% and in my eyes 3d fractals are actually a PART ouf OUR world, and hence the world around is fractal everywhere we might "think" that we explored it because our brains make sense of forms and associate them, but in fact everything is different ;)

have fun! and i am looking forward seeing nicely done music videeos with 3d fractal flights :D

regards

Thank you, I am looking forward to get involved.

Yes, ofcourse 3d fractals are a part of our world. In a sense, it could be considered the opposite  ::)

I am looking foward to making the nicely done music videos.
But I have also come to realise that it's going to take me some time to figure this out enough to be able to produce something which would express the music artistically.
I could produce a 3d fractal and set a flightpath through it, but it wouldn't be unique and it wouldn't be identifiable with the specific music.

I have chosen to use Mandelbulber 0.97 because of the sound controlling possibilities.
But there are a few limitations.
First of all, I've spent about 3 hours trying to use the example sound settings as a base, changed the .wav but I haven't been able to produce a render from there.
I am going to have to bother people with many questions, I will have to learn alot of the theory, I'll have to read through the code to understand how it operates.
Also, in the end, I'm going to need help rendering it, because from my rough estimates, the rendering would take 3-5 weeks for a 7 minute track on my computer (64bit 3core 2.27GHz processor, 4 GB RAM).

All in all, I feel sort of awkward coming here with a big bag of needs.  :embarrass:
I might not be the most humble of people, but I do feel a need to find some way to contribute.

One thought I've had is that I could transform my learning curve into tutorials for other newbies to read.
I've worked with technical educations for 3 years at my last job and I've produced hundreds of pages total of manuals...

Nice to meet you.  I'm a musician myself though my tastes are in original 60's psychedelic music and space rock.
Hope to see some of your work soon - have fun!

 :howdy:

Well, I'm doing my first test render now with 1000 frames...
But the vision I have for my first actual video is 10500 frames and I'm estimating it would take something like 2 months to render :/