"Seattle" Mandelbrot set deep zoom

[HPDZ]

I have finally completed "Seattle", my latest deep-zoom animation.

This zooms to a final size of 1.6 e-51 into the eastern cusp and then into an antenna, contrasting the linear theme of the antenna with the curlies of the eastern cusp. I added a splash of bright pink into the color palette as a little acknowledgement of the great work TeamFresh is doing.

This project was rendered using what I call "frame interpolation", which is generating a series of smaller video frames from a single larger master image. I believe many fractal animation programs use a smilar technique. It is described in some detail on my site here:
http://www.hpdz.net/TechInfo/Animation.htm#Frame_Interpolation and was originally described in The Science of Fractal Images.

All together, 170 large master frame images were used to create 7200 video frames at 1080x720 with 9X noise-reduction oversampling (3x3) using a median filter. The rendering time on a 2.4 GHz quad-core Core2 system (slowly becoming outdated!) with 64-bit high-precision arithmetic code was 34.8 days.

The main page for this project http://www.hpdz.net/Animations/Seattle.htm has various compressed versions ranging from 512Kbps to a gigantic 20Mbps true HD quality encoding that is really gorgeous. I also tried doing a full-size and half-size encoding, both at 4Mbps, to see if it makes any difference.

And for instant gratification, here's the link to YouTube.  I uploaded the 4Mbps full-size encoding, so you might want to click on the HD option for better playback quality if your connection speed can support it.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/NtJs86GJ4wk&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/NtJs86GJ4wk&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

[gussetCrimp]

well, no one else replied, probably because of the 3D craze... but this was really beautiful, very delicate and interesting structures. I have all your videos on my computer, in the largest possible size, and I think this one is my new favourite (though I'm not crazy about the music). The colouring is quite different, is there a change in technique? It's not just that it's a different palette, the transitions between colours seem more well-defined or something.

How would you compare your work to David Madore's? His are the zooms that seem closest to yours in the care he puts into selecting interesting structures and beautiful palettes, but they have a different overall aesthetic.

[Tabasco Raremaster]

Catchy oldskool anim.
Very sharp and clear.
Deep indeed :-)

[Thunderwave]

I love the deep zooms.  This is great!  Since I live in Seattle, I jumped at this topic.  Also there is a great website, Amazing Seattle Fractals.

[aluminumstudios]

I always enjoy your deep zooms and this was no exception.  Very artistic, very clean, very well done!

[miner49er]

Very nice indeed.

What I find interesting, is that if you take the Julia set of the point in the last frame of the animation, then the resulting Julia set will contain all of the complexity of that animation (the swirly bits and the straight bits etc.). The goes against my normal perception of Julia sets - that they are the same repeating shape all the way to infinity. In fact, the Julia sets of these can often look really nice as they don't have the 'strange' Mandelbrot shape in the center, you can make it any shape (connected) or nothing (unconnected).

I think.

[trafassel]

Very, very nice.