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  Hello Fractal posters. I have been in search of software that can morph land scapes and transform paintings.
I discovered Mandle Bulb a few days ago and I find the results it can produce to very stimulating to say the least. I have ran across A company called San Base that "privately" uses a software that can morph digital painting on a constant and unlimited bases never recreating the same image.
I was curious if anyone could point me in the right direction of similar software??? Have a peak at the links below can Mandle buld do anything like this?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e--Uljy0VbM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHU8eJEY3AM&feature=related

Thanks for your assistance it is well appreciated

Hi and welcome to the forums. I had a second thought after my answer on Youtube and seeing these videos, which remind me this one I did with Ultrafractal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsnczN62vH0

So it should be possible to do strange transformations like these using fractal software, but it will be quite difficult to accurately control, so I guess that some other specialized morphing software (which, I don't know) would be more appropriate.  Just an opinion...

There is a lot a specialized software for morphing photos and videos.

I did this with "Morpheus" quite a long time ago:

(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/sockratease/tigertiger.gif)

It's not Fractals, but the program works on any images or videos - and with (A LOT OF) practice it is possible to control it in fine detail.

I am not sure if something like it was used in the videos you show, but I'm posting the idea anyway.

Just in case   O0

The short answer with respect to the video examples is no - however there is a *but* - since some fractal software (Fractint, Ultra Fractal, ChaiosPro...) is not restricted to doing fractals (i.e. can have formulas written for it that can do almost anything you like in terms of digital/algorithmic imaging) you could write formulas that will morph images as in the examples, some software being more suited to the task than others.
In particular Ultra Fractal now allows importation of external images and you can do what you like with these - including for example writing code to analyse and identify regions within imported images, something that would be necessary for such morphing - these could be identified completely programmatically or even partly under user control by means of UF's "switch" feature.
Obviously if one formula is given access to two images and regions on each could be selected to be linked to each other then UF's animation feature could be used to do the morphing.
However to write the routines so morphs can be set up and controlled without too much time/effort involved would require some considerable effort in terms of programming the analytical code in the first place and then appropriate routines to control how each area/s map to other area/s.

Why does every single newbie call the software they are using "Mandelbulb"? There are no pieces of fractal software called that exactly, only mandelbulber and mandelbulb3D. Judging by the low quality graphics, I'd say you're using mandelbulb3D, so I can't help.

I don't think they do, do they? This one actually called it "Mandle Bulb." Not seen that one before.


Yogeesunshine was referring to artist San Base's own (unavailable) program, not presenting images from the "Low Quality"(???) Mandelbulb3D.
Compared to what is it lowQ?

regards
Kam