Hello!

[momentselixir]

Hi. My name is Veronica and I'm an art major at Western Michigan University.
Lately I've been trying to get into projection, and projection mapping to render projections onto 3D objects.

I would love to create some 3D animations of fractals and I was wondering if it was possible to manipulate the speed and view of the camera around one so that it could go to music (i.e. zooming in and out to a tempo). Eventually I don't know if it's possible, but with the 3D rendering of a brick wall if each brick became it's own fractal and then eventually zoomed into one so that the whole wall was a fractal. If anyone has any suggestions where I start I'm all ears. I've never created my own fractal, but I do feel like it has a significant purpose in my art, and I'm dying to incorporate it.

[cKleinhuis]

hi there,

so, you need a starting position ...

- try ->ultrafractal5 and ultrafractalwiki.fractalforums.com as a general fractal creation starter
- create some lsystem trees http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system
- try then the flame fractals with ->apophysis or even better: ->apophysis 3d hack
- enter 3d world with *commercial* ->xenodream, or *shareware* ->incendia
- try some 3d projections using ultrafractal 5,  e.g. 3d ifs ( dunno the name ) by dave makin, or heightmap rendering
- then go back to ->ultrafractal5 and check out the http://www.hiddendimension.com/Tutorials/3DFractals/3DFractalRaytraceTutorial.html mandelbulb tutorial for rendering the mandelbulb
- after all the you should have enough knowledge to implement your own renderer
- and after all that you should have enough resources to get a reasonable rendering system

 

have fun, and do not hesitate to ask

[Nahee_Enterprises]

    Hi. My name is Veronica and I'm an art major at Western Michigan University.
    Lately I've been trying to get into projection, and projection mapping to
    render projections onto 3D objects.

Greetings, and Welcome to this particular Forum  !!!    

    I would love to create some 3D animations of fractals and I was
    wondering if it was possible to manipulate the speed and view of
    the camera around one so that it could go to music (i.e. zooming in
    and out to a tempo).   .......    If anyone has any suggestions where
    I start I'm all ears.  I've never created my own fractal....

There are hundreds of applications available for creating fractal images:
    http://www.fractalforums.com/fractal-related-links/finding-fractal-related-software/

But as most people in this forum will attest to, it is a very time consuming process.  That is if you render each image as a frame of the animation and continue that process to get enough frames to make a lengthy video.

Another process is to use one of the more specialized fractal programs that are capable of producing 3-D objects (meshes), which can then be saved/exported for importing into a 3-D rendering application (i.e. Maya, Bryce, 3DSMax, etc.).  From there you could do fly-bys, rotations, various textures and backgrounds, and much more.