Strawberry Dream

[thargor6]

A short flame-fractal-movie, created using JWildfire, rendered with Chaotica.
Music: "Open Highway" by ALBIS

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/gplUe50YUmA&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/gplUe50YUmA&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

[cKleinhuis]

nice, warming up for annual compo

why rendering with chaotica ?! and how is the music affecting the image ? it looks like it does but cant really recognize

[thargor6]

why rendering with chaotica ?!

Because it's much faster in rendering, so for doing 2D-flames it is a great combination (design/animate in JWildfire, render in Chaotica).
Luckily, both programs support a similar model to animate things, so it's possible to even exchange whole animations.
The next JWildfire-version will support an Chaotica-exporter to simplify things.

and how is the music affecting the image ? it looks like it does but cant really recognize

In JWildfire you can load a mp3-file, select a frequency-band, and turn the data into a motion-curve. This motion-curve may be scaled and assigned to any property. This is how it is done here, the animation uses 4 of such motion-curves.

[lycium]

why rendering with chaotica ?!

Here are some more examples of why: http://www.chaoticafractals.com/videos

Unfortunately few people notice the much higher rendering quality, and YouTube/Vimeo compression definitely doesn't help here, but Chaotica's rendering speed (often faster than the GPU renderers) seems to be the major attraction.

[cKleinhuis]

i see, that makes sense, so people i demand to see videos from ALL OF YOU for this years compo!!!

[thargor6]

I have re-rendered it in JWildfire (at approximately/vaguely the same quality-level) to compare render-speed.
Chaotica needed about 4 seconds per frame, JWildfire 17 seconds per frame at my machine. But those numbers are only meant as a rough measure.


<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/-UN6VDBP_ZI&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/-UN6VDBP_ZI&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

[lycium]

If you used default settings, then Chaotica used 2x2 supersampling, i.e. rendered a 4x bigger image in less than 1/4 the time (plus extra AA computations).