My Little Boxed Garden

[trumanbrown]

Hi all.  Wow, I've been playing around with MandelBulb3d for a little bit and am truly amazed at how powerful this free program is.  Thanks for your generosity and hard work Jesse!

Here's a little animation I threw together and posted on my blog: http://www.browngrafix.com/74740601.  Thanks for viewing.

[bib]

Very very nice job. The sound is really funny

[eloop001]

Cool. Those flowers are really alien.

Perhaps another background than the pure blue would be nicer. May be some plants to set the scene ?

[Madman]

Nice work Truman! 4 months of rendering... I don't think I would have had the patience...

[trumanbrown]

Hey, thanks for all of the positive comments!  Boy that feels great.

Yes, it did take a lot of patience to render this little animation, but no more so than many other projects.  The trick is to work on multiple stuff concurrently (and, if you can of course, use more than one computer). 

I'm currently in the process of rendering (1) a 6000+ frame animation where each frame is taking roughly 15 minutes each to render, (2) a 1500+ frame animation where each frame is taking about 2 hours each, and two or three other ones in various stages of long, drawn-out incompletion.  You may have noticed my 15 second long "stupid job" raytraced HD animation on my blog that took around 9 months to code/model, render on a single PC, and finally apply audio on to.  Yes indeed, it does take a lot of patience ... and a very understanding family  .

[cKleinhuis]

welcome to the forums then, nice work, mandelbulber can combine sound and parameters

[kameelian]

Hi,

definitely very gardeny. Well done.

I know what it's like to do 6000 frames @ 15 minutes - but 1500 frames @ 2 hours is just wild.

regards
Kam

[trumanbrown]

"The good things in life are worth waiting for" seems like an appropriate phrase in the context of rendering anti-aliased animations such as this.  While anti-aliasing makes things look nice and smooth -- omg how it tests the patience.  Kinda like standing around watching plants grow in a real garden.

As I stated the obvious previously, multiple PCs do make the wait more tolerable .  This anti-aliased Mandelbox fly-thru took less than a month to render on four PCs concurrently: http://www.browngrafix.com/razors-rocks-and-rails.

[miner49er]

Love it dude.
Love the fractal funk video as well, excellent usage of fractals! Great tune as well!