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Mandelbrot Spiral Forest



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Found a real thicket of spirals in Seahorse Valley.

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Rendered at 640x480. The final 15 seconds were rendered with arbitrary precision; I used a keyframe interpolation method to make that section take all night instead of all month to render.

A mixture of off-the-shelf and custom software was used, including custom Lisp code to generate the final frameset from the keyframes and VirtualDub to stitch the frame pngs and an mp3 into an avi and compress it.