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A myriad of details in an evolving fractal landscape.

I'm currently working on a WebGL 3D fractal renderer that will let you explore structures like this in real time... stay tuned!

Update: The soundtrack is an original piece I made for the video. I've put it up on soundcloud: soundcloud.com/subblue/surface-detail

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  • zerv 1 year ago
    nice!
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  • Dave Lenz 1 year ago
    Wow
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  • beautiful.. Fractals always amaze me... Posted on 24ips.com !
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  • Paul Cameron plus 1 year ago
    lovely
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  • Michael James 1 year ago
    Gorgeous!
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  • Michael Lapp plus 1 year ago
    Thanks for sharing, that was beautiful!
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  • Sinan İpek 1 year ago
    This reminds me of the creations of the live, pathetic ocean in the science-fiction novel, Solaris. I wonder why they didn't use fractal geometries to realise that ocean in the film. The otistic ocean always makes creatures like this one.

    By the way, what 3d application did you use for modelling and rendering?
  • subBlue plus 1 year ago
    It is rendered using my own GPU based raytracer written in GLSL. All the shapes are the result of the fractal formulas, no modelling involved :)
  • Aaron Steed 1 year ago
    I was thinking of Solaris's symetriads as well when I saw this. Pretty much how I imagined it to look.

    If you rendered the whole thing in a blancmange pink it would complete the allusion
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  • Ryutin Nikita 1 year ago
    Hmmm, nice
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  • Lars Berg plus 1 year ago
    Really nice, beautiful
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  • Pim Kramer 1 year ago
    Wonderful!
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  • prisonerjohn 1 year ago
    very cool, is this rendering in real-time?
  • subBlue plus 1 year ago
    Each frame takes about half a second to render at HD 720 resolution with 4x antialiasing. Without the AA it is quick enough for interactive tweaking of the parameters.

    I'm planning that the WebGL version I'm working on will let you fly round/through the structures in real-time :)
  • Daniel Ossio plus 1 year ago
    this sounds like a really fun app! hopefully with mac support ;)
  • dalas verdugo plus 1 year ago
    So cool.
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  • Peter Liepa 1 year ago
    Nice! Glynn sets?
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  • Chris Mierzwinski plus 1 year ago
    subBlue! Wow this was mesmerizing, beautiful and hypnotic! I can watch this for hours. Nice choice of music.
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  • Kemal Denizer plus 1 year ago
    excellent job. thanks subBlue
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  • Paul Neave 1 year ago
    Stunning stuff. Can't wait for the WebGL version!
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  • Kim Taylor 1 year ago
    so... beautiful...

    mathematics is my new religion
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  • Tom Lowe pro 1 year ago
    Epic! Now do that in color, please. :)
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  • Danny Glix 1 year ago
    <3
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  • Aleksandar Rodic 1 year ago
    Hey! Awesome work :)
    Im working on some WebGL stuff to. Looking forward to see your work
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  • Daniela Petkovic 1 year ago
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  • Kim Taylor 1 year ago
    The soundtrack fits so perfectly to this piece, who did it?
  • subBlue plus 1 year ago
    The soundtrack is my own creation too :)
  • Chris Mierzwinski plus 1 year ago
    Wow! It's masterful!
  • Kim Taylor 1 year ago
    That explains why it fits then... incredible!
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  • DieTapete 1 year ago
    Wow! I especially like the pythagoran trees that show up at some point.
    How long did it take to render? I'd love to see a version that's half as slow. ;)
  • subBlue plus 1 year ago
    It took just over 5 hours to render. Maybe if I'm away for the weekend I'll set it to render a longer slower sequence :)
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  • Carlos R. Dueñas 1 year ago
    Impressive!
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  • Muy bueno!!!
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  • double g studios plus 1 year ago
    Really, really nice job
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  • boris 1 year ago
    Thumbs up, brilliant !
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  • James Alliban plus 1 year ago
    Breathtaking
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  • Radek Věchet 1 year ago
    Moment please ..[looking for my jawbone on the floor]..

    Really amazing. I just wonder, what was the render time of this animation. Is there used displacement or normal mapping?
  • subBlue plus 1 year ago
    Thanks! There is no geometry, the fractal is a procedural surface so no displacement or normal mapping :)
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  • Fascinating! We've put it on our blog…
    everythingvisual.net/?p=3058
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  • mesmerising work.
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  • Bobby Goodspeed 1 year ago
    Love this! Would be awesome as visualization app if you could get the music to change some of the parameters to the beat
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  • bazil_t 1 year ago
    like under shroooooms
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  • Robert Williams 1 year ago
    Wow!
    This reminds me of the original Andromeda Strain movie.
  • O'Ryan McEntire 1 year ago
    haha i thought of that too!

    while watching i thought "man, if they ever make a new Andromeda strain they should totally use a fractal like this!"
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  • Charles Frith 1 year ago
    Excellent.
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  • O'Ryan McEntire 1 year ago
    Wow! I wish this was about 4 hours long... I couldn't look a way it was beautiful.

    someday when Holo-decks are real this will be an addicting program to run....
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  • Robert Stigers 1 year ago
    This is a great 3d fractal video! I added it to Web420.com :)
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  • Tristan Jalleh 1 year ago
    Wow wonderful design. It would make an incredible anaglyph video, have you thought of that?
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  • Tori_J 1 year ago
    It looks like nature.
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  • Steve Talkowski 1 year ago
    Absolutely stunning!
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  • Nuno Caroço 1 year ago
    You know i´m a Fan! ;) Really amazing piece.
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  • Joss Agnew 1 year ago
    Beautiful. Creation itself. Felt like watching birth of life.
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  • Eduard Haiman 1 year ago
    it inspires!
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  • Konx-om-Pax 1 year ago
    amzing
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  • Satish Goda 1 year ago
    That was intense. Wowowowow
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  • chindogu plus 1 year ago
    Really Great!!!
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  • Jacob Carmona 1 year ago
    That was amazing!!!
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  • 4F4 1 year ago
    wowww
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  • keigaku plus 1 year ago
    Comfortable silence
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  • Felipe Leyva 1 year ago
    Stunning. There´s any place where i can download that soundtrack?
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  • awesome lullaby
    added it to designcollector.tv
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  • guiguidu60 1 year ago
    Magnifique et incroyable à la fois ! :D
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  • very nice!
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  • miller mike 1 year ago
    screen savor pls
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  • PO-MO Inc. plus 1 year ago
    Your work is amazing!
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  • Miha Feuš 1 year ago
    I was staring at this video with an open jaw and it gave me goose bumps...
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  • K D 1 year ago
    Incredible Work!
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  • Cooper Griggs 1 year ago
    This. is. Awesome.

    Thanks for posting.
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  • Pax 1 year ago
    Full screened, full stoned, full pleasured.



    The 'thing' is one million different things, moving from one to another so smoothly... Amazing.
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  • Satya Meka plus 1 year ago
    Truly Breathtaking!
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  • Joe Bacon 1 year ago
    Who composed the music? I think it is a great choice for the video. Great vid too ;)
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  • Nancy Winn 1 year ago
    Unbelievable! It felt like I was flying at times! I never wanted it to end. Thanks!
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  • Pax 1 year ago
    Oh BTW, could you make a small program that could do the same type of things ? Or would it require an extremely powerful computer ? As Nancy Winn said, I never wanted it to end.
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  • Integral Monastery 1 year ago
    That's absolutely mind-boggling.
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  • First, of all: Holy shit! these videos you made are amazing! And second of all: Can you recommend any fractal modeling programs for Mac? I've been searching the internet but have been unsuccessful so far...
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  • Pouff 1 year ago
    That hurt my brain and was a bit revolting. AWESOME!
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  • Brenda von Ahsen 1 year ago
    Stupendous.
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  • michael strum 1 year ago
    love it
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  • IonError 1 year ago
    excellent work and marvellous art ;)
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  • Georgios Cherouvim 1 year ago
    Visual orgasm!
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  • Ioannis Cherouvim 1 year ago
    jaw dropping
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  • ars 1 year ago
    Very cool! How did you do it?
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  • Awesome ! ! Great, i shared it!
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  • lior ben horin plus 1 year ago
    Wow! this beats psychoactive drugs any day of the week!
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  • Erasmo Alcântara 1 year ago
    That`s it! Ayahuasca.
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  • David Nasser 1 year ago
    Looks nice. Thank you.
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  • bob mills 1 year ago
    spectacular! and many, Many thanks for *not* doing it in color!!!

    as a fractal fan who read Chaos when it came out & some Mandelbrot as well and wrote code to do graphics from several sets in the 80's: GREAT JOB!!!
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  • Arnaud LE BOT 1 year ago
    Very Interesting Rendering !
    Strange and mystic.
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  • Zenzuke plus 1 year ago
    Oh my god...
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  • F/22 1 year ago
    Yowza!!!
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  • Cassidy Curtis 1 year ago
    So brilliant. And the music is perfect!

    We were talking about the Tron sequel, and what it could have been in the hands of a more visionary art director. I imagine the character of "Bit" would return looking something like this. :-)

    There are a few moments where the surface seems to abruptly change to a slightly different shade of grey, in a single instant. What's going on there, do you think? Is it a kind of "phase change" at some infinitely tiny micro-structural level?
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  • JANKENPOPP 1 year ago
    great :)
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  • Mike N 1 year ago
    How are you getting the motion?

    Is the fractal time dependant? Are you moving a static, thick fractal through a surface? Is the surface zooming in on itself?
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  • antipax 1 year ago
    Great work. However, getting a piece of music and running it through Paulstretch doesn't automatically turn it into an original music piece.
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  • jim barry 1 year ago
    Fantastic, I'd like to show it to my computer art classes in the high school along with the Siggraph videos I show. The MP4 download does not seem to be available, Is there any chance I can get a lower res one if not the high one?
    The physics teacher here forwarded the vimeo link.
    Jim
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  • tronpop 1 year ago
    Absorbed, thanks. Just a hint of color would be great.
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  • Fascinating! May I ask how this was rendered? Or at least what technique you used? I recognize some common IFS structures at some points, so I assume you used an IFS model. However, for all intents and purposes, it looks like the projection of a 4-dimensional object being rotated in 4-space. This looks like a fun project. I am very impressed by the accompanying musical score.
  • Eyal Marcos Levit 1 month ago
    This is not a "3D model" of any kind, its a 3D fractal. The shapes are created using mathematical algorithms and the gradual changes of the 3D object are basically a gradual change in the algorithms. I think its the correct way to put it.
  • By IFS model, I mean "iterated function system" model, which is a mathematical framework for generating many fractals. The use of "mathematical algorithms" is a given.
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