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Example of morphing between formulas using Mandelbulber

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/RHVCt1WXuAU&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/RHVCt1WXuAU&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

I see you are a newbie to Fractal  Forums, so hello and welcome agirl_yo 

There will be a new version of Mandelbulber released in the next few days, which has an updated user manual.

But the manual is a work in progress, and has yet to discuss how to do this type of morphing,

However, from menu bar select    File - Load examples, and load example called  mandelbox_menger_morph, this is the settings file for that video, and you will be able to see how it was done

Feel free to ask questions here at Fractal Forums, and we can help guide you.

For morphing between fractals  the "weight" parameter is used.  Weight determines the influence each formula has in the image at each frame.  Weight = 0 (0% influence), weight = 1 (100%).
So as  the weight is adjusted from 0 up to 1, then the influence of that formula is introduced. At the same time, the other formulas weight is being reduced from 1 down to 0.

Good practice would be to find a good setting for a "halfway: keyframe.

keyframe#0   formula1 weight = 1 & formula 2 weight = 0
keyframe#1   formula1 weight = A & formula 2 weight = B    // the halfway keyframe
keyframe#2   formula1 weight = 0 & formula 2 weight = 1

The values of A & B that are chosen, control the way morphing works between keyframe#0 and keyframe#2.

  ! I read about this sound animation feature, it's awesome I might also try it. I have two more questions though:

- I cannot find any information on how to assign different material on different fractals? I enabled hybrids, for morphing animation and I want two fractals to look differently. Users guide method gives me the same material on both fractals. I'm changing materials in global parameters>material manager .What am I doing wrong?

- Is it possible to put few fractals in same scene, not as hybrids but just close to each other?