Mandelbrot Fractal Set Trip To e214 HD

download the original @ http://www.hd-fractals.com/downloads/

see the latest deep zoom by teamfresh here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foxD6ZQlnlU

Here is a nice deep zoom into the Mandelbrot set. The words "nice" and "deep" fall a bit short actually.

"Mathematical Porn" is a better description.

After watching this video things in my room started to bend and breathe!! I hope you enjoy the trip!!

The final magnification is e.214. Want some perspective? a magnification of e.12 would increase the size of a particle to the same as the earths orbit! e.21 would make a particle look the same size as the milky way and e.42 would be equal to the universe. This zoom smashes all of them all away. If you were "actually" traveling into the fractal your speed would be faster than the speed of light.

You might like to know that this animation took me about two days to set up. My computer then rendered day and night non-stop for just over a month to produce the animation. The resulting twenty-eight anti-aliased 1280x720 AVI files (each just under 2GB) were each watermarked at full frames (uncompressed) Then I stitched them all together uncompressed. I also added the audio track at the same time. This was all done in Virtual dub. (except watermarking) The final watermarked Avi with audio is a whopping 46GB - Then I compressed it to 495mb so I could upload it onto vimeo. I think it still looks fairly crisp

With the compression settings adjusted to achieve the highest quality, the resulting file size was about 1.5GB and looks absolutely sweet!

(Once vimeo plus is here I may well upload it!)

**edit**

highest quality version is still too big for vimeo even after vimeo plus has arrived but it is available for download from http://www.hd-fractals.com/downloads/

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