Genesis Of Chaos

[tomkh]

Hi guys,

Here is a result of my last year study of fractal surfaces:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/0xT9OmEAQXc&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/0xT9OmEAQXc&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

It's a custom made technique and renderer, not your usual KIFS or Mandelbulb thing.
It took around 3-5 minutes to render one frame (on i7).

I hope you enjoy!
Tom

[brasnacte]

Looks pretty nice!

could you tell us more about the renderer?

[tomkh]

The renderer is using ray-tracing for primary and secondary rays (shadows) boosted with full DF evaluation to approximate AO.

The surface itself is based on my short paper from 2007:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4276128&isnumber=4276090

Here is a pre-print version:
http://kaims.pl/~tom/vorofractal.pdf

[tomkh]

If anyone is interested, I've uploaded a 3d stereoscopic version (no sound) here:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/-FptBanlJeg&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/-FptBanlJeg&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

Although good luck setting it up properly using recent youtube HTML5 viewer
It works for me with red-cyan, but I couldn't make it work with 3d vision.