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| Description: Hello Friends of Order and Chaos, because of improvement of technology the possibilities for mankind raise and raise. I would call the last year the beginning of Virtual Reality. YouTube starts it's 360° mode - even stereoscopic. facebook also can play 360° content. VR communities grew like mushrooms and a lot of devices are now available ranging from ultracheap cardboard to Oculus Rift. Jesse was prophetic and included a 360° Panorama camera mode in Mandelbulb 3D. Mandelbulber can also render 360° content. So Julius, Don, some others and myself started creating the first 360° VR videos with Mandelbulb 3D or Mandelbulber. It is just another level of media when you can decide in which direction you are viewing and when the fractal world is all around you. So my entry for this year had to be a 360° fractal. More by accident I surfed a very old hybrid (Amazing Box, MengerIFS, _AmazingBoxSSE2) from my first animations and found an object that was quite suitable for a 360° animation because there is action all around you. Beside that it was possible to add a cool morphing by modulating MengerIFS CScale Z parameter even when zoomed far inside. The result is an animation with 5325 frames of 3840x2160 pixel and Antialias 2 (so rendered at double size). Rendering time about 5 minutes/frame or 20 days for complete animation. Well, 360° is cool. But much cooler would be 360° in stereoscopic 3D! So what happen, when you turn on "360° Panorama" as camera mode and check "Render stereo animation" option in the Animation maker? First results looks promising. When combining the left and right 360° images via StereoPhotoMaker then red parts were always left to matching the blue parts. Crossed eye view check with right image on left side and left image on right side looks good, at least in the center (later front of the 360° view). But after discussing the topic at facebook and doing two testvideos Julius Horsthuis gave the hint that you get a stereo image on the back, but it is flipped. So when you wear red-cyan glasses you have to turn them around. At the sides there is no stereo effect, so only front view is correct. So "Good bye" to fractals in 360° stereoscopic 3D? I hope not. Some thought loops about the problem and some raw tests later I had a solution to create at least 360° stereoscopic 3D images. So this proof of concept works and it should be quite easy to implement this feature as a new camera mode. I have started a new tutorial topic about the processing pipeline here: http://www.fractalforums.com/tutorials/t23857/ Because such a 360° stereoscopic 3D does not exist for now I can't render my animation that way. So I had to split it in a normal 360° version and a slideshow with the 360° stereoscopic 3D images that I have created with the new method. Rendering time for each image was about 2 days, so just 1920p quality. Just for completeness I also add here the flat / non-injected 4K version of the 360° animation, so you can see the complete fractal at once. 360° Version - embedded player can't play 360° content - view directly at YouTube!!! Code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQbSJFMmfA8 360° Stereoscopic 3D Slideshow - the next step into Virtual Reality Fractals - embedded player can't play 360° content - view directly at YouTube!!! Code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaXQdOGE0Og 4K UltraHD flat Version - same as 360° version but without 360° metadata Code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ap3IiLJGpI Parameters here: http://schizo604.deviantart.com/art/Fractal-Matrix-246-Mandelbulb-3D-fractal-608911207 Video also available for viewing and downloading at Vrideo: http://www.vrideo.com/watch/PE4SI1c Soon also at my WearVR Channel: https://www.wearvr.com/developers/schizo604/apps Enjoy your flight! Stats: Total Favorities: 0 View Who Favorited Filesize: 378.23kB Height: 720 Width: 1280 Discussion Topic: View Topic Keywords: 360° stereoscopic Mandelbulb animation Mandelbox MengerIFS hybrid Posted by: schizo  May 16, 2016, 01:47:41 PMImage Linking Codes
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schizo
Iterator  Posts: 156 
| June 26, 2016, 01:16:20 PM Quote from: pulsar69 I can't see it in full 360° but i rate the performance of a 4K 360°.! Hi Philippe, well the forum player can't play 360° stuff (I think it needs the HTML5 and not the flash player). So view the videos directly at YouTube for the 360° experience. Links below the videos. |
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pulsar69
Navigator  Posts: 66
| June 26, 2016, 09:23:14 AM I can't see it in full 360° but i rate the performance of a 4K 360°.! |
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LhoghoNurbs
Safarist Posts: 90
| June 21, 2016, 10:06:52 PM Quote from: schizo Quote from: LhoghoNurbs Interesting. I feel bad that I have now special equipment to fully emerge in the 360° 3D world. A friend with a good smartphone and a cheap google cardboard are already quite cool. Oops. Not "now", but "no". The correct is: "I have no special equipment..." I didn't think about the Google cardboard at all. You are quite right. I should try it. |
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schizo
Iterator Posts: 156
| June 21, 2016, 09:01:45 PM Quote from: LhoghoNurbs Interesting. I feel bad that I have now special equipment to fully emerge in the 360° 3D world. A friend with a good smartphone and a cheap google cardboard are already quite cool. Quote from: LhoghoNurbs BTW, when I look backward, the scene disappears and blurs-out quite fast. Looking forward is much more colourful and picturesque. Yep thats right. Next time I will add another light at backwards view. When it is less dark then also compression (blur-out) is not so strong. Doing the lightning in a 360° view is a bit tricky because you need several lights and the backward view is spread at left and right side. @Sabine: Danke  |
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LhoghoNurbs
Safarist Posts: 90
| June 21, 2016, 07:42:44 PM Interesting. I feel bad that I have now special equipment to fully emerge in the 360° 3D world. BTW, when I look backward, the scene disappears and blurs-out quite fast. Looking forward is much more colourful and picturesque. |
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Sabine
Fractal Fertilizer Posts: 373
| June 21, 2016, 07:25:43 PM Enjoyed the ride, thank you! |
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schizo
Iterator Posts: 156
| May 19, 2016, 09:48:25 PM Thank you Caleidoscope and stardust.  Yeah 360° has some fascinating features. Pause and looking around is cool or you can see the video several times and explore different views each time. Fractals are good for 360° animations because there is no plot you have to follow and that bounds your focus. With 360° fractals you are free  |
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stardust4ever
Fractal Bachius  Posts: 513
| May 19, 2016, 08:32:10 AM That is amazing! You can pause anywhere within the video and just look around!  |
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Caleidoscope
Fractal Fertilizer Posts: 365
| May 17, 2016, 08:57:30 AM Just stunning. Great job man |
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