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by ricardo montalban

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by ricardo montalban

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by ricardo montalban

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by ricardo montalban

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My third 3d fractal music clip for my ambient/drone/experimental project called Musicians With guns. This track will be released soon on Perso Records : persorecords.tumblr.com/

Stay tuned for the first Musicians With Guns LP on Entropy Records, March 2011 (pressed CD, limited series 500 copies) : entropy-records.com/

The fractal imagery was made with Mandelbulb 3d, a fantastic - and free ! - program by Jesse (PC only). More infos about Mandelbulb 3d, Jesse and 3d fractals on fractalforums : fractalforums.com/

Happy new year !

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DieTapete 1 year ago

Thank you! :)
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Glad you like it thanks !
Ridhwan 1 year ago

wooooow o.o
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thanks for watching Ridhwan !
Justin McClure 1 year ago

outstanding. I just posted it on squeezeme.tv/
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thank you so much for the nice words Justin ! And thanks for sharing this video too. Happy new year 2011 :D
reallybigname 1 year ago

Wow!!!
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thanks ! :)
Lee Griggs 1 year ago

unbelievable! I would pay good money to watch this in Imax 3D!
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thank you very much Lee ! I'd love to see it myself hehe. However for such an occasion I'll have to get rid of this nasty aliasing.
christopher lee | onward films 1 year ago

Pretty amazing. Felt like I was watching Inception all over again.
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thanks ! Indeed 3d fractals looks quite surrealistic, specially when parameters are changing during the animation course.
Blake Whitman 1 year ago

This is insane.
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thanks Blake !
HannesJohannes 1 year ago

Now I remember it was something like this I wanted to add to our movie in the 6th scene! :D
Amazing!
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

You can make your own pretty easily with Mandelbulb 3d, the interface design is pretty intuitive and you can come up with incredible images in a few hours of training. Please visit fractalforums.com for more infos about this fascinating free software.
James Drake 1 year ago

that was crazy...beautiful work!
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thank you James, glad you enjoyed it.
cindy molina 1 year ago

intresting! ;D
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thanks Cindy.
Riot Unit 1 year ago

Hypnotic. Would love to see a "making of" :)
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thanks ! A making of would be pretty boring, 99,9% of the work is rendering time^^
Anders Hattne 1 year ago

Is that mandelbulber? Any idea of how long the rendertime was? I've looked at it but gave up after a few quick tests...
Riot Unit 1 year ago

Exactly. How long does it take render up a piece like this?
Anjelkam 1 year ago

Wow!! Happy new year too!!
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thanks ! :)
Abdiel Pictures 1 year ago

Really enjoyed the video. At first, the mind has a hard time interpreting this different type of architecture. Very mesmerizing!
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

You're right, all those weird shapes can induce confusion. Specially when parameters like fractal scale is changing rapidly. thanks for watching !
Lina Safstrom 1 year ago

Now that's the craziest 3D ive seen this year! :)
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thank you so much for the sweet words !:D
Essam Hiyari 1 year ago

wow.. when the camera zooms out, it'll look like its something small.. but when it zooms back in, wow, it really has a very huge of details that it will look like its really really big.. and that is such a nice and well done work..
three thumbs up.. :)
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thank you ! Details into details into details etc... :)
Mehdi Mirzae 1 year ago

:)
Eric Del Greco 1 year ago

i just popped one thousand simultaneous 3D rendered madenlbrotboners
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thanks for watching Eric !
Teo Barrault 1 year ago

i got shivers from the awesomeness!!!
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Wow nice, glad to know my animation is sooo sexy. thanks !:D
jakobweiq 1 year ago

wat program do u use?

im guessing Mandelbulb3D
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Yes it is. I didn't write it in the comments, I'll have to edit this soon. Mandelbulb 3d is such an awesome - free - program it deserves a lot of publicity :)
lazniak.com 1 year ago

it is a 3D fractal? or What? :) how did you made that? Very very NICE :)
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Yes this is a 3d fractal (a mandelbox formula). I used Mandelbulb 3d to render this animation. Feel free to visit fractalforums.com for more infos about this free program.
Johannes Matsson 1 year ago

This was an amazing piece, nice music as well.
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thank you very much for the positive feedback Johannes !
Linus Lundin 1 year ago

this is insane!
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Hehe thanks for watching Linus.
Lucas Michel 1 year ago

Intense!
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

thx :)
Amenon 1 year ago

Disorienting!
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

You're right, it's a gravity free environment. No up or down :)
Carlos Viana 1 year ago

Wow
Clement Bardet 1 year ago

wonderful, I really love the escape atmosphere and the correlation between visual and sound. Do you know a video called "Gestalt" from Thorsten Fleisch ? You will find it on vimeo.
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thanks, I just found this video and you're right it's really well done. Great interaction with the music !
Mark Hennings 1 year ago

This seems dangerous
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Hehe true :)
mkluis 1 year ago

Stunning.
Romeo Lee 1 year ago

umm,
some mirror duplication is there
weird random patterns
Professional graphics and environment
Time shifting cam movement

I wished it was something more meaningful metaphoric
however It carried nice message about our world:-
my home is part of the strt, strt part of the city, city from country, country of land, land of earth, earth of milky solar system stars space galaxies... and so on

I cant then stop saying wow to whatever surrounds you
and Oppps to yourself

Thanks for the great show and the hard effort
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback !
Natul tortuosa 1 year ago

un voyage au cœur des atomes :)
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Oui c'est exactement ça sauf que dans le cas de ces formules mathématiques il n'y a pas de plus petite entité de matière insécable, on peut - en théorie - zoomer à l'infini :)
americo 1 year ago

very strong!
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thank you !
Spad 1 year ago

Outstanding! Reminds me of the Hollywood Bowl as I experienced it in the late '60s.
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Glad you liked it !
Mao Junior 1 year ago

Bravo! Like watching a ruined roman basilica at first, then realizing you ain't in rome! :)
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Rome with zero gravity :D
Kadavre Exquis 1 year ago

Cool! How many times for rendering?
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thank you ! It took about two weeks on my modest dual core processor :)
Jody Hollar 1 year ago

maybe you answered this but....is this ran on a mandelbrot set?....looks almost mandlebrot.. very nice!! :)
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

This formula is a Mandelbox. I'm not a math guy so I only understand the idea but I can't comment on the formula itself. You can find more infos about this new formula here : sites.google.com/site/mandelbox/what-is-a-mandelbox
Angelica Baini 1 year ago

I love the way the camera traveled it seemed like i was on some sort of ride! Very Great!
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thank you Angelica !
Paul 1 year ago

That could've went on for hours.
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thanks Fredrick. I wish I had more time to render longer clips :)
Visionary FX 1 year ago

outstanding!!!!
blackben 1 year ago

so cool ~~~~!!
great job, thax
Ahmet Turk 1 year ago

Brilliant!!
ematikulin 1 year ago

full screen wooow :O
Grant Osborne 1 year ago

BLAMM!!! that was the sound of my mind being blown!!!
wicked
Tom Konecny 1 year ago

I have never seen anything like this before in my life. Absolutely fantastic.
Amazing how you're tricked into thinking something is big and a couple of moments later you saw the same place disappear because of how tiny it was compared to everything else.
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Dezooming is nice because you can see where you're coming from, it accentuates the impression of infinite complexity.
Dionysios P. Simopoulos 1 year ago

Wow! Can you render this in fulldome (4K by 4K) for the Digital Planetarium market at a nominal fee? Please do get in touch!
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Hi Dionysios. Actually i could render this in 4k *4k, it would be a very slow render though. I'll send you a private in a few minutes ;)
U-DOX 1 year ago

Mandelbulber?
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Mandelbulb 3d. Sadly it seems Mandelbulber requires a more powerful computer than Mandelbulb 3d. My modest dual core processor isn't fast enough :(
Daily 1 year ago

Hi,
I'm working for dailymotion (dailymotion.com/fr) and i would love to feature your greta work on our homepage. can you please contact me ? (frederic@dailymotion.com) ?
Thx !

Fred
Maria Celeste 1 year ago

reminds me of being in the matrix!!! jejejej beautiful and just a little bit scary. great music too
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thank you Maria !
Roma Yahoo 1 year ago

What is the music in this video? similar to the Biosphere
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

The music is my ambient/drone/experimental project called "Musicians With guns". For this particular track I exclusively used PPG Waves sound ; this old synthesizer had a distinct digital/retro 80's feel. It can be mesmerizing and gritty at the same time.
inevitable:crafts.studio 1 year ago

wow ! ! !
da fe 1 year ago

fascinating! wonderful!
Andreas B. Amble 1 year ago

yeah: WOW! This is pretty awesome! haha, got a wonderful old feeling here for some reason: remembered me of the first time i saw the "the Prodigy - one love" music vid.. when I marveled at the complexity of 3D! hehe
- great work man!
(also posted on: abamble.com)
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thank you so much for the very positive feedback. Also thanks for sharing the video on your blog !
P A L I S 1 year ago

zarpadoooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
decollage.tv / Everything Visual 1 year ago

It's mesmerising! We've put it on our blog…
everythingvisual.net/?p=2934
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Thank you for sharing this video on your blog, this is greatly appreciated ! ;)
Edward Getley 1 year ago

Fractals are just crazy, aren't they! Very nice work.
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

You're totally right. I'm always amazed to fractal's infinite complexity and variety of shapes. Adding a third dimension is just insane :D
Rainer Skommodau 1 year ago

WOW, I think on my first fractals I made 1985 with a Commodore C64 and 12h time to calculate with 5 colours...
....thank you for this video.
ricardo montalban 1 year ago

Wow I didn't know about fractal programs on C64. For this animation the frame render time is about 2 to 4 minutes for a 1280*720 image on a dual core PC. Hopefully there is an animation preview built in Mandelbulb 3d :D