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Excellent! The inside part looks so mysterious

lol, superb, love the relatively deep zooms and the sound !
 

Very cool. The audio track has a great effect on it. How did you determine the points to keyframe, trial and error?

Welcome !

It is possible to keep zooming into a Mandelbulb in the same way as a complex Mandelbrot, it's just a lot more time consuming to render such a zoom.
For instance even zooming into the "whipped cream" areas will eventually produce detail - in the same way that certain areas of the boundary of the complex Mandy require deep zooms to reveal detail.

Thanks all for the comments!


Yeah, half way through my video, I had to change the iteration count to around half, because things were becoming too 'bitty' and also much harder to render without any flickery errors, and 'chunks' disappearing.


This is where it can get a bit confusing. Remember there are (kind of) two different types of zoom, one is where the 'giant 3d photo' is being enlarged forever. This is essentially the same as resizing an image, and cropping a smaller central part of it. The 2D mandelbrot works by this principle, and so does my older 3D Mandelbulb video (see bottom of this post). As David said, it's easier to render this type.

However, the type of zoom from this new video above is basically that the camera itself is *moving in* to the fractal. This brings its own difficulties, including the possibility of crashing, or of nothing much happening for ages. To get the effect of zooming in for a long time, I had to make the camera slow down towards the end. It looks just as 'fast' as the beginning, but really the camera is going dead slow, and it's only the fact that we're so close to the tiny, tiny fractal detail that things still look as though we're going really fast. Finally, going really really close (more so than I've done here) can be very painful to render (up to an hour per frame, at least until I optimize further).

Anyway, because the camera is going in, just like with a real object, it's possible to crash into the Mandelbulb (and go inside, where it appears pitch black in the video).

Hope that helps clear things up a bit!


For the backing 'music' track which had 'pseudo' sound fx and note crescendos/decrescendos, yes, pretty much. However, my other 'normal' sound effects (like the crash) were easier to do, as I simply go to the frame I want in the video editor, and align the sound to it there and then.

Here's the older video I did with the 'photo enlargement' type zoom:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/vqkPjpU6bsA&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/vqkPjpU6bsA&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

Okay, first of all, for effect, I artificially delayed the time spent in the 'crash section' - in reality, it only lasts around 0.1 - 0.2 seconds (say around 5 frames worth).

Like you say, the relatively low iteration count could account for this 'volume' of solidness anyway.

However, even with infinity iterations, I have my suspicions that some sections on the perimeter (including maybe this one) would still be somewhat thick. I can't say for sure though.

p.s. the inside totally looks like the inside of a Cylon basestar from BSG, kind of disturbingly organic. How did you light it? Once you've found some good locations in the interior for back-lighting, you could drop some light sources at strategic points the way they do to get fantastic photos of the inside of caves. And again, I would really love to see the path arc once we're inside so we get to see a bit more--you could make it skim close to the inside surface for a while if it's not too hard to search out an interesting path before you start the high-quality render.