Surf's Up, Part 2: Tomb of the Fractal Lich King -- "A Minor Explosion"

[paigan0]

Here's the full 6-minute video of Tomb of the Fractal Lich King, with one of my original solo piano songs, "A Minor Explosion." Formula is a custom Amazing Surf algorithm ported from V2 into V 1.21 OpenCl by mclarekin.

Here I'm trying for more "boxy" Mandelbox looks and not so much wavy, "surfy" things, although you'll note that the ending looks like a "Wave Box," a box morphed into a pure, elemental wave form (that was the working title for this video). The color morphings throughout are huge but entirely a factor of the formulas and morphing physical characteristics that then impact the color rendering, and not a factor of changing the color or offsets at all. I never morph the color at all but it changes wildly depending on the angle of viewing and the distance between the camera and the fractal surface. That gives it an "iridescent" color effect that was entirely accidental, yet cool. And I can't get it to stop, so I'm pretending the iridescent effect was entirely intentional. 

Video was made from 10,200 frames of 1920 X 1080 jpegs, recorded with Ambient Occlusion (AO) 8. It took 2 MSI GeForce 980 GPUs about 2.5 days to render.

Musically, "A Minor Explosion" is in the key of A Harmonic Minor, and is another solo piano piece from my album Paigan Productions Presents Piano Pieces. It's recorded live, improvised, and in one take, with some (small) warts and all. For those that this holds meaning and value, chord progression is Amin, Dmin, G, C, F, Bflat, E, Amin, with wild up and down the keyboard wankings and arpeggios and melodies around and using that same repeating chord progression.

Here's the YouTube link:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/hH9T5zIcQqY&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/hH9T5zIcQqY&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

Vimeo link, for better quality viewing and free downloads: (coming tomorrow!)

Cheers!