Split point (mandelbox zoom)

[teamfresh]

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http://www.hd-fractals.com/split-point/
Split point is a slow deep zoom into the mandelbox. but mainly it was an experiment.

After rendering my first few animations of the mandelbox - I found my camera skills leaving a lot to be desired, when it came to moving around and into the mandelbox! Some movements were too quick and jerky - whilst others took too long to play out. So I have been trying my video editing skills to resolve the problem.
To smooth the camera's pitch and roll, I remapped the time of the fast areas to slow them down, that worked, but although the camera had smoothed out, the animation was very jerky as it was only 4-5frames per seconds at some points. Now you can just blend original frames together to create new ones and put them in between the originals - fine if you have at least 15-20fps to play with but when the frame rate is as low as 4-5fps (normally i render at 30fps) it gives bad results. so instead I used a pixel blending technique to create the brand new frames - so that the video could slow down without the animation losing details. its not perfect but it works

I have decided they were good results although it led to a longer post production time.

The audio we used is from http://90watts.com
and it is a deep tech house track called

"head of beans" by martin fisher
http://90watts.com/releases/9041

Inspired by the house tapes his older sister gave him in the early 90's, Marten Fisher turned his commodore 64 into a studio tool and started producing his first beats.

In 2003 he released his first release and nowadays he has build up quite a nice catalog with releases and remixes on labels like 90watts Records, Bad Girls, Strom Recordings, Travels, XXXflicks and of course his own successfull proghouse label Dub=records.

So all in all I feel honored to be using his sound!

[kram1032]

actually I think now it's too slow rather than too fast. Especially the first minute was incredibly slow...

The path itself is nice but it could have been faster...

[bib]

Excellent!

[teamfresh]

Thanks. I agree with both of you   I still cant get over how dam beautiful this thing is.

Did anyone see the bulls head? above the banana split thingy? the more I watch it, the more I see a big bulls head! crazy!

[cKleinhuis]

awesome! thanks for the trip, i was flashed when the spike appearead, and it was so smooth, great and even deeper!
 

[msltoe]

Great job! This video gives me a deeper appreciation of the infinite variety within the mandelbox.

[Tglad]

I liked the area around 3:50 that was and lots of unseen before shapes... it kind of has a decaying alien space city feel 

[KRAFTWERK]

WOW, this makes STAR WARS feel low-budget
Wonder when we see the first sci-fi movi using the mandelbox as a landing site... at the end, was the spacecraft hit by hostile laser-beams? Nice shakey camera effect! 

Love the "never ending" zoom, great feeling of vastness...