Ten years on, and I'm learning from your tutorial. Also subscribed. Thanks. Mandelbulb 3D has been updated since, but basic functionality remains the same.
Thanx for posting these tuts. I've tried before to get the hang of Mandelbulb 3D but it was confusing as heck to read tutorials. I think seeing vids like these will help me more than the written tuts! I will keep watching, and I'm off to re-install the latest version of MB3D so I can give it another go!
thank you thank you thank you! longtime mandelbubler user, just got M3D to work with wine. thanks for the tutorials; the interface is wide asunder but just as intuitive as mandelbulber, but these videos are a great kickstart.
Yes, you can start and stop the render. It steps through each frame of the animation, saving images as each one is complete. Time for each animation is different depending on the fractal formula, and especially the size of each image. If I'd rendered this one at 1280x720 instead of 1902x1080 it would've taken about half as long. After you get all the frames you string them all together with a video editor to create the video.
i just downloaded and fired up the program- already fun not even knowing what I'm tweaking or why. Good, encouraging video! I like your pace- looking forward to #2!
Thank you for making sense of the layout and basic functionality. For me, at first glance, the start creen reminded me of the fun you could have with early Metacreations UIs, where menus would suddenly lurch out of the darkness as you accidentally tracked over them, but now it makes good logical sense. Probably the most useful five minutes I've ever spent on youtube. \o/
The WASD aspect was a very pleasant surprise! Your voxel stack tutorial and slice video is superb. I'm very glad to have encountered and subscribed to your videos, thank you. I've had Blender installed for a couple months; there is a newfound impending urgency to learn the program now.
No raytracing in the Mandelbulb 3D app, at least not in the normal sense. Jesse has added Reflections since i did these tutorials. There is an app called Fragmentarium that uses raytracing for mandelbulbs and other algorithmic shapes.
the company SubBlue has developed a near real-time fractal generating/modifying/exploring software to be released soon. not sure if it will be oculus compatible. you can check out a video demo on their website. software is called Fractal Lab by subblue.
You're welcome, Cody. I'm glad you are using the tutorials. The more Mandelnauts, the better. (^_^) I also started with Mandelbulber, but switched to M3D because of the WASD first person-ish navigation.
Thanks so much for this vid tut. I've only just read about it in the magazine 'Advanced Photoshop' here in the UK. Before I download I wanted to find out more about it so I searched on here and found your tutorial. I've found it very informative, so I'm subbing to learn more, thanks for the links too!
HELLO DOC. I'VE BEGAN FROM BLENDER 3D AND MAKING FROM FORMULA AND THEN MAKING WITH ADDON WHERE FORMULA IS PACKED IN AND THE NEXT I'VE SEEN A NICE COLORFUL WORLDS OF JULIUS HORSTHUIS AND YES I'VE ALREADY TRIED THIS TUTORIAL AND WALKING AROUND VARIES TUTORIALS AND TRIED VARIES WAYS TO DO SOME WITH IT. HM.. THE NAVIGATION IS STILL SUCKS, THE BLENDER IS BETTER AT THIS. BUT WHAT A NICE WONDER WORLDS I HAVE TO PLAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH I'LL TRY. AND HELLO TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THAT NICE STRANGE FRACTALS
THANKS! You learned me to understand the basics, without you, I wouldn't understand a bit from Mandelbulb... And do you mind it if I put a link to this tutorial in the description of some explorations and tests on Deviantart? I want other people to also be able to watch this great tut and learn the basics of Mandelbulb, just like I did...
Thank you SO much, Don! I see you published this vid in 2011. Here we are now, 2019. I JUST discovered this program. Wow! I am grateful for your pace of this tutorial, as someone else mentioned. I'm such a newbie! Can't wait to see if I can utilize this program with some of my existing art -- or is it only the fractals that the program offers?
The slower your CPU the more patience is required. :) M3D doesn't use the graphics card for any calculations, it does everything on the CPU. It's multi-core friendly so more CPU cores is awesome. I run on a 6 core Althon Phenom clocked at 3.2ghz, but I've also used an el-cheapo dual-core laptop at 1.2 Ghz for rendering. Gigabytes of RAM is beneficial for extreme high resolution renders, but I don't think it is a major factor otherwise.
Well, sort of. It'll work on just about an PC, but the slower your computer the more patience you'll need. :) I have been rendering most of my animations on a cheap, dual-core laptop. I set everything up on my main PC then let my little laptop churn through it all. My last animation took about 8 weeks to render.
THere are some presets in the Mandelbulb 3D program folder. The folder is called M3Parameters. Opened with the button labeled Open Parameter. they are the .m3p extension. You can also download presets from fractalforums or Deviant art. I'll put a link in the description to a forum thread with a bunch of params.
this may seem like a stupid question, but i cant for the life of me see how I can make the actual geometry change each step of the animation. I can make the image and render it fine, I just dont know what values to tweak at each step to make it slowly "morph". I assume that theres some way to make it step incrementally automatically, or do I have to make a keyframe, then tweak a param, then move the cam, recalculate the image and rinse and repeat?Much thanks!
hey i was wondering if you could do some tutorials on how to zoom the camera inside of the fractals and or how to animate with keyframes? would it help if i said PLEASE=) this program is amazing yet somewhat hard, i'm use to the blender animation interface.
are there any apps out there that let you explore these similar to a video game? I want to explore these while wearing the oculus rift. Even if it was stuck on "a track" through one of these that let you look around in the oculus would also be amazing (and possible to render ahead of time. Thanks for the info, i'm new to these but they are amazing.
Excellent Honey Bunch, you're welcome. I usually prefer video tutorials too. It's usually just easier to figure stuff out when you can see someone doing it. Check out the new one I posted today, too. It's a little different - a walkthough style that shows how I make a simple animation.,
Thank-you ! well worth your time. I cant wait to get this on my system and explore. I really like your Totems vid, but thats not a computer generated fractal, right ? I think totems is proof that natural fractals exist and they are so enlightninig to watch in the right frame of mind.
I've seen a few realtime mandelbulb experiments, but nothing quite as impressive as just roaming around in M3D. Having an Oculus Rift in there would be amazing. o.O I guess it's not out of the question, but i think it would recquire some extreme trickery and black-belt code-fu. :) Making a 360 degree interactive video should be possible with M3D. There is a panoramic camera option that renders a spherical view..
This is really cool and helpful, but there is one thing I don't understand. Where are the parameter "presets" located? Or are there no defaults, do you have to download them manually?
Thanks for the tutorial. What kind of graphic card have you? I can't moveanyway the window because rendering 1 frame is about to take approximativelly 1 minute !!
Hi Don. I wanted to invite you to join Mandelbulb Maniacs Facebook page. there is incredible talent and a great community there. many of the people there got started by watching your tutorials. would be great to have you as part of the group.
Hi, Thanks for making these super helpful tutorials, I wouldn't be able to create my uni project without these, My question is- What size do you set the image settings to, to create hd video quality? Also do you know if I can I compile the separate images to create my animation in final cut pro?
No Mac version, but it does work on Mac via the Wine emulator, at least that's what I've heard. There is a similar, cross-platform fractal app called Mandelbulber. Find it at mandelbulber (dawt) com
I can't change background color because I don't have Lightening Tab. The program says "Press to bring lights + color adjust window" but when I click on that tab nothing happens. I use Acer Aspire 5 tablet.
Hello, Don, thanks for your efforts. I'm unable to control resolution in Animation maker, whatever I set there is tripled in the render window when I click Start... How to control resolution of final output? Thanks!
Hello Benjamin. Do you have the Antialiasing set to 3 on the Animation window? That would triple the size of your render. That setting is right next to Animation Size in the Animation window.
@@DonWhitaker Yup, finally saw how that related, thanks. I also now get how you have to set Viewing at 1:3 if your antialiasing is 3 to a) save that result, b) save at all (was getting out of memory error), and c) chop rendering time in half. Many thanks.
Hi there. I'm hoping you can help me. I opened the program and instead of having 3 windows like you have lighting and formulas is on the right side of the main window and when I click on them they do nothing. How do I get the 3 separate windows like you have? Thanks for any help you can give.
anyone have any idea why after i click "re-render all keyframe preview images" it just loads for a long time, i rendered a scene before and had no problems with it loading, but that had a low far plane, but i didn't increase it too much so i don't see why it's now loading like this.. i did however upgrade to windows 10 after i rendered the previous scene, maybe win10 is the reason?
Well, this function calculates new preview images for animation maker after you changed parameters via "Processings". Recalculation takes a while. Check the explanation at 42min 6sec of my animation tutorial available at my channel. So I don't think it is a Windows 10 problem (I also use windows 10).
Hey, thanks for the tutorials! They're turning out to be very expensive for me as I need to buy a new computer to get decent render times, ha. Do you know if this software runs on Windows 8.1? Any video card / processor advice? Thanks!
Hi PIxelWrangler. It runs on WIndows 8.1 just fine for me, don't think I've ever heard of any problems in that area. Video Card won't matter at all for Mandelbulb 3D, it's all about the CPU. It'll max out as many CPU cores as you give it. I have a i7-3770 with 8 cores @ 3.4 Ghz and I've been very happy with that. It can still take hundreds of hours to render long, hi-rez videos but it's much better than the dual-core CPU I had previously. If you are going to run it maxed out for long periods of time make sure you have a good fan/cooling system. There are very few apps that will work your CPU as hard as M3D. There is an option in the app to only use X number of cores for rendering, which is nice. I sometimes let it run in the background with just a few cores while I work on other taskas
hmm, not sure where to send you. This page has a good, short description - plus interactive examples, too. fractalfoundation.org/resources/what-are-fractals/
Don, is this (or is there) a program where you can draw your own idea (Example: I want to draw an Elk) and the program creates a fractal based around the user's idea? I would like to create some complex temple style fractals based off of a temple idea of mine.
no, more like you are exploring shapes and picking ones that you like. Closest thing I can think of to your request is Fractalius plugin for Photoshop. Not 'true' fractals but it makes some interesting images. www.redfieldplugins.com/filterFractalius.htm You might also explore one of the 'Style Transfer' methods. Start with your temple images then have it re-drawn in the style of a fractal image. DeepArt.io is a good one.
Thank you for getting back to me so quickely. I'll look into these. Though this seems to only be covering 2d fractals. I was hoping for a program that took a 3d model and converts it to a 3d fractal...though looking back at my post I did word it completely wrong.
So would I be able to go into the fractal and find a scene I like, save it as a png, then bring it into Photoshop and add other things into it, or is there a option to make the background transparent?
No option for a transparent background that I know of. You can mke the background a very bright, solid color - like a green screen video effect. You can also save the ZBUF image data. That is a greyscale image that represents the depth of every pixel. You can use that in photoshop to make a clean selection of the background.
mandelbulb3d is great software for fractal learning, i like it, but, the result of this software just a image, do you know any softwares which provide 3d models ? thanks.
Yes, Mandelbulb 3D can also produce 3D models. I have tutorials on this playlist that show how. th-cam.com/video/Kpu-DZs9HXU/w-d-xo.html Older versions required the use of a couple of external apps, but a newer version now outputs .obj files directly. th-cam.com/video/E7YrvSZdKLs/w-d-xo.html
Hi Don, fantastic tutorials here, Recommended by julius- Horsthuis the creations of these Art that move pieces is very beautiful thank you for helping me understand and get started, good luck to all creators here ... Peace
cool, thanks for the info about the video. I've been waiting eageryl for SubBlue to release the new factal explorer. I had a peek at the early version on fractal.io and it was a lot of fun. The interface and rendering in that preview video both look good. Maybe something less intimidating to many people than Mandelbulb 3D. :)
Ten years on, and I'm learning from your tutorial. Also subscribed. Thanks. Mandelbulb 3D has been updated since, but basic functionality remains the same.
Thank you Don for taking the time to create all four of your tutorials. I learned a lot and have already started making some super cool stuff.
Thanx for posting these tuts. I've tried before to get the hang of Mandelbulb 3D but it was confusing as heck to read tutorials. I think seeing vids like these will help me more than the written tuts! I will keep watching, and I'm off to re-install the latest version of MB3D so I can give it another go!
Thank you so much for making these!!!! Can't wait to watch them all. Just downloaded Mandelbulb, so excited to start!
You're welcome Kelsey - have fun exploring!
Try in 2021 they added lightning and other infinite stuff
Thanks a lot man! I'm totally new to the subject and your tutorials are a blessing
You're welcome - glad you found the tutorials. Have fun exploring the Mandelverse!
thank you thank you thank you! longtime mandelbubler user, just got M3D to work with wine. thanks for the tutorials; the interface is wide asunder but just as intuitive as mandelbulber, but these videos are a great kickstart.
Yes, you can start and stop the render. It steps through each frame of the animation, saving images as each one is complete. Time for each animation is different depending on the fractal formula, and especially the size of each image. If I'd rendered this one at 1280x720 instead of 1902x1080 it would've taken about half as long. After you get all the frames you string them all together with a video editor to create the video.
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was trying to learn from a written tutorial and getting nowhere. This really helped.
Nice intro. I'm looking forward to trying it out for myself. The possibilities are endless!
Thank you for your work and for a clear explanation of how to use the software
i just downloaded and fired up the program- already fun not even knowing what I'm tweaking or why.
Good, encouraging video! I like your pace- looking forward to #2!
Your tutorials have really helped me get a handle of Mandelbulb. Thanks much!
Thank you for making sense of the layout and basic functionality. For me, at first glance, the start creen reminded me of the fun you could have with early Metacreations UIs, where menus would suddenly lurch out of the darkness as you accidentally tracked over them, but now it makes good logical sense. Probably the most useful five minutes I've ever spent on youtube. \o/
You're my hero brother. Love everything that you do and share. Thank you so much for these breakthroughs. Your videos bring so much joy! :)
The WASD aspect was a very pleasant surprise! Your voxel stack tutorial and slice video is superb. I'm very glad to have encountered and subscribed to your videos, thank you. I've had Blender installed for a couple months; there is a newfound impending urgency to learn the program now.
No raytracing in the Mandelbulb 3D app, at least not in the normal sense. Jesse has added Reflections since i did these tutorials. There is an app called Fragmentarium that uses raytracing for mandelbulbs and other algorithmic shapes.
the company SubBlue has developed a near real-time fractal generating/modifying/exploring software to be released soon. not sure if it will be oculus compatible. you can check out a video demo on their website. software is called Fractal Lab by subblue.
You're welcome, Cody. I'm glad you are using the tutorials. The more Mandelnauts, the better. (^_^) I also started with Mandelbulber, but switched to M3D because of the WASD first person-ish navigation.
Oculus rift with a real time mandelbulb renderer!....now THAT is something I want!.
This is a lot of fun. I made a couple of right left images and viewed with my VR headset. Other worlds!
Thanks so much for this vid tut. I've only just read about it in the magazine 'Advanced Photoshop' here in the UK. Before I download I wanted to find out more about it so I searched on here and found your tutorial. I've found it very informative, so I'm subbing to learn more, thanks for the links too!
Thanks a million. subbed and watching the whole series.
You're welcome, MadiUk77. I hope you find some cool shapes and spaces while you explore the Mandelverse. :)
HELLO DOC. I'VE BEGAN FROM BLENDER 3D AND MAKING FROM FORMULA AND THEN MAKING WITH ADDON WHERE FORMULA IS PACKED IN AND THE NEXT I'VE SEEN A NICE COLORFUL WORLDS OF JULIUS HORSTHUIS AND YES I'VE ALREADY TRIED THIS TUTORIAL AND WALKING AROUND VARIES TUTORIALS AND TRIED VARIES WAYS TO DO SOME WITH IT. HM.. THE NAVIGATION IS STILL SUCKS, THE BLENDER IS BETTER AT THIS. BUT WHAT A NICE WONDER WORLDS I HAVE TO PLAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH I'LL TRY. AND HELLO TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THAT NICE STRANGE FRACTALS
AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR I UNDERSTANDING AT LAST ALL THIS TUTORIAL. I'VE TRIED HONESTLY
Thank you! Gonna watch all your videos in this series, and im using it on a fully upgraded macbook pro 2014 it works fine! (of course im using wine)
THANKS! You learned me to understand the basics, without you, I wouldn't understand a bit from Mandelbulb... And do you mind it if I put a link to this tutorial in the description of some explorations and tests on Deviantart? I want other people to also be able to watch this great tut and learn the basics of Mandelbulb, just like I did...
This is very helpful! Thanks Don.
Thank you SO much, Don! I see you published this vid in 2011. Here we are now, 2019. I JUST discovered this program. Wow! I am grateful for your pace of this tutorial, as someone else mentioned. I'm such a newbie! Can't wait to see if I can utilize this program with some of my existing art -- or is it only the fractals that the program offers?
The slower your CPU the more patience is required. :) M3D doesn't use the graphics card for any calculations, it does everything on the CPU. It's multi-core friendly so more CPU cores is awesome. I run on a 6 core Althon Phenom clocked at 3.2ghz, but I've also used an el-cheapo dual-core laptop at 1.2 Ghz for rendering. Gigabytes of RAM is beneficial for extreme high resolution renders, but I don't think it is a major factor otherwise.
This software has been in the works for a while ... hope it gets released soon!
"it's easy to get lost in these things" LOL! True...thank you!
Well, sort of. It'll work on just about an PC, but the slower your computer the more patience you'll need. :) I have been rendering most of my animations on a cheap, dual-core laptop. I set everything up on my main PC then let my little laptop churn through it all. My last animation took about 8 weeks to render.
THere are some presets in the Mandelbulb 3D program folder. The folder is called M3Parameters. Opened with the button labeled Open Parameter. they are the .m3p extension. You can also download presets from fractalforums or Deviant art. I'll put a link in the description to a forum thread with a bunch of params.
this may seem like a stupid question, but i cant for the life of me see how I can make the actual geometry change each step of the animation. I can make the image and render it fine, I just dont know what values to tweak at each step to make it slowly "morph". I assume that theres some way to make it step incrementally automatically, or do I have to make a keyframe, then tweak a param, then move the cam, recalculate the image and rinse and repeat?Much thanks!
Thanks for this! How do I convert the m3i into a usable video file though?
hey i was wondering if you could do some tutorials on how to zoom the camera inside of the fractals and or how to animate with keyframes? would it help if i said PLEASE=) this program is amazing yet somewhat hard, i'm use to the blender animation interface.
Most useful, thanks! And I love your style...
Thanks for intro. very helpful, will check out your others tomorow. Can't wait to try and get some of these into ZBrush.
thanks for the help,i'm just getting started with this program.
are there any apps out there that let you explore these similar to a video game? I want to explore these while wearing the oculus rift. Even if it was stuck on "a track" through one of these that let you look around in the oculus would also be amazing (and possible to render ahead of time. Thanks for the info, i'm new to these but they are amazing.
Excellent Honey Bunch, you're welcome. I usually prefer video tutorials too. It's usually just easier to figure stuff out when you can see someone doing it. Check out the new one I posted today, too. It's a little different - a walkthough style that shows how I make a simple animation.,
Thank-you ! well worth your time. I cant wait to get this on my system and explore. I really like your Totems vid, but thats not a computer generated fractal, right ? I think totems is proof that natural fractals exist and they are so enlightninig to watch in the right frame of mind.
I've seen a few realtime mandelbulb experiments, but nothing quite as impressive as just roaming around in M3D. Having an Oculus Rift in there would be amazing. o.O I guess it's not out of the question, but i think it would recquire some extreme trickery and black-belt code-fu. :) Making a 360 degree interactive video should be possible with M3D. There is a panoramic camera option that renders a spherical view..
Thx... was helpful. Have you tried the stereo function in animations for the ocukus rift?. So...... i guess my fate is sealed.... :D
thx =) I so needed to know where the camera navigation had been moved too :D
This is really cool and helpful, but there is one thing I don't understand. Where are the parameter "presets" located? Or are there no defaults, do you have to download them manually?
Thanks for the tutorial. What kind of graphic card have you? I can't moveanyway the window because rendering 1 frame is about to take approximativelly 1 minute !!
Nice thanx for the tutorial it probably saved me some frustration
Hi Don. I wanted to invite you to join Mandelbulb Maniacs Facebook page. there is incredible talent and a great community there. many of the people there got started by watching your tutorials. would be great to have you as part of the group.
i looked at rectal forums, I couldn't find how to make m3p file type for 3d model?
Do you always have to start with the default fractal?
Hi, Thanks for making these super helpful tutorials, I wouldn't be able to create my uni project without these, My question is- What size do you set the image settings to, to create hd video quality? Also do you know if I can I compile the separate images to create my animation in final cut pro?
¡siempre le esperamos!
where does that Mandlebulb Raytracer come in?
How do you generate a SierpHilbert fractal? I am using 1.5 and 2. and dont see an option...lost please help
Thanks Don, wow ive got lot of screen time to invest!! :D
No Mac version, but it does work on Mac via the Wine emulator, at least that's what I've heard. There is a similar, cross-platform fractal app called Mandelbulber. Find it at mandelbulber (dawt) com
Only good tutorial in whole internet, do more ? :D
Thanks for these. Really useful
Looks like I am late to the party... your tut is still very helpful!
I can't change background color because I don't have Lightening Tab. The program says "Press to bring lights + color adjust window" but when I click on that tab nothing happens. I use Acer Aspire 5 tablet.
how to create new parameters file from scratch. any basics for that??
Hello, Don, thanks for your efforts. I'm unable to control resolution in Animation maker, whatever I set there is tripled in the render window when I click Start... How to control resolution of final output? Thanks!
Hello Benjamin. Do you have the Antialiasing set to 3 on the Animation window? That would triple the size of your render. That setting is right next to Animation Size in the Animation window.
@@DonWhitaker Yup, finally saw how that related, thanks. I also now get how you have to set Viewing at 1:3 if your antialiasing is 3 to a) save that result, b) save at all (was getting out of memory error), and c) chop rendering time in half. Many thanks.
Any recommendations on system specs to use this program?
Very helpful! Thank you!
hi does anyone know how to export out or format a fractal animation for VR for Oculus?
Is there a download file for mac for this software?
Hi there. I'm hoping you can help me. I opened the program and instead of having 3 windows like you have lighting and formulas is on the right side of the main window and when I click on them they do nothing. How do I get the 3 separate windows like you have? Thanks for any help you can give.
Sharon E. Thomas you downloaded something called mandelbulber and not mandelbulb 3d..i did the same. Download the right program and you`re good to go!
anyone have any idea why after i click "re-render all keyframe preview images" it just loads for a long time, i rendered a scene before and had no problems with it loading, but that had a low far plane, but i didn't increase it too much so i don't see why it's now loading like this.. i did however upgrade to windows 10 after i rendered the previous scene, maybe win10 is the reason?
Well, this function calculates new preview images for animation maker
after you changed parameters via "Processings". Recalculation takes a
while. Check the explanation at 42min 6sec of my animation tutorial available at my channel. So I don't think it is a Windows 10 problem (I also use windows 10).
Is it only for windows? how do i install on a mac?
What is best place to learn to use this program for art? Maybe it's better to start with 2D fractals?
You''re in the right place, another great place is Google.
lmgtfy.com/?q=Mandelbulb+3D+Tutorial
Hey, thanks for the tutorials! They're turning out to be very expensive for me as I need to buy a new computer to get decent render times, ha. Do you know if this software runs on Windows 8.1? Any video card / processor advice? Thanks!
Hi PIxelWrangler. It runs on WIndows 8.1 just fine for me, don't think I've ever heard of any problems in that area. Video Card won't matter at all for Mandelbulb 3D, it's all about the CPU. It'll max out as many CPU cores as you give it. I have a i7-3770 with 8 cores @ 3.4 Ghz and I've been very happy with that. It can still take hundreds of hours to render long, hi-rez videos but it's much better than the dual-core CPU I had previously.
If you are going to run it maxed out for long periods of time make sure you have a good fan/cooling system. There are very few apps that will work your CPU as hard as M3D. There is an option in the app to only use X number of cores for rendering, which is nice. I sometimes let it run in the background with just a few cores while I work on other taskas
Ha..I used to render Bryce and Poser animations overnight on a Pentium 2. 12 hours for a minute of medium res AVI. The future arrived too early.
Do you know where i can read up more about fractals? The wiki article is way too complicated
hmm, not sure where to send you. This page has a good, short description - plus interactive examples, too. fractalfoundation.org/resources/what-are-fractals/
Don, is this (or is there) a program where you can draw your own idea (Example: I want to draw an Elk) and the program creates a fractal based around the user's idea? I would like to create some complex temple style fractals based off of a temple idea of mine.
no, more like you are exploring shapes and picking ones that you like. Closest thing I can think of to your request is Fractalius plugin for Photoshop. Not 'true' fractals but it makes some interesting images. www.redfieldplugins.com/filterFractalius.htm
You might also explore one of the 'Style Transfer' methods. Start with your temple images then have it re-drawn in the style of a fractal image. DeepArt.io is a good one.
Thank you for getting back to me so quickely. I'll look into these. Though this seems to only be covering 2d fractals. I was hoping for a program that took a 3d model and converts it to a 3d fractal...though looking back at my post I did word it completely wrong.
however your idea is freaking amazing and i want to toy around with it ...seriously what a million dollar idea
Great, thank you for the upload !!!
So would I be able to go into the fractal and find a scene I like, save it as a png, then bring it into Photoshop and add other things into it, or is there a option to make the background transparent?
No option for a transparent background that I know of. You can mke the background a very bright, solid color - like a green screen video effect. You can also save the ZBUF image data. That is a greyscale image that represents the depth of every pixel. You can use that in photoshop to make a clean selection of the background.
***** hmm I will need to check this out, is this program based off of formulas like apophysis?
where is the 3d navigator on the mac version
@LugubreAbsinthe Oh now I've tried with 1.7.3.1 and it's beeetteeerrrrr they have done a lot of optimisations to render quickly!! thank you ^^
mandelbulb3d is great software for fractal learning, i like it, but, the result of this software just a image, do you know any softwares which provide 3d models ? thanks.
Yes, Mandelbulb 3D can also produce 3D models. I have tutorials on this playlist that show how. th-cam.com/video/Kpu-DZs9HXU/w-d-xo.html
Older versions required the use of a couple of external apps, but a newer version now outputs .obj files directly. th-cam.com/video/E7YrvSZdKLs/w-d-xo.html
Hi Don, fantastic tutorials here, Recommended by julius- Horsthuis the creations of these Art that move pieces is very beautiful thank you for helping me understand and get started, good luck to all creators here ... Peace
Awesome. I'm glad that you found the tuts and that they are still useful for you. Have fun exploring the Mandelverse!
Best tutorial ..Thanks
thank you so much I'm so excited to play with this shit
thank you and I love fractals
cool, thanks for the info about the video. I've been waiting eageryl for SubBlue to release the new factal explorer. I had a peek at the early version on fractal.io and it was a lot of fun. The interface and rendering in that preview video both look good. Maybe something less intimidating to many people than Mandelbulb 3D. :)
Thank you man!
this is great!
Can't rotate the "Bulb" itself.....
Amazing!
great tutorial thx
Thank you so much !!!
I can't even figure out how to make it make a fractal to explore. Guess I'll read the manual like a good boy.
Thank You very much :)
is this for mac?
yes, I've got it for mac and it works just like this
Yeah!
I tought it was only for Windows!!!
Thx for that dude!
thank you. nicely done
Thank you!
link caído
Im in love :O
Gracias!
Am i the only one feeling like listening to Johnny Depp when u hear this guy talk?
You've got cool voice, like Jessy from Breaking Bad :)
Pretty epic