The two moods of the music totally change the feel of the visual element. Either utter dread and anxiety from such a vast, surreal space, or profound wonder and loneliness from... well, such a vast, surreal space. Also, epic clown face in the top left at the end!
As I was watching this video, I was tried to picture it as a city, but it's near to impossible to conclude it's that, since it doesn't have to have an earthly kind of shape. I felt amazingly trapped and way beyond the bounds of space and time.I truly enjoy this kind of stuff, whether high or not.
The structures you can make with fractals, especially in 3 dimensions, are incredible. I've never heard of a hybrid fractal though. What makes a fractal hybrid?
It is hybrid because during iterations there are used several different fractal formulas. For instant in first iteration there is used Mandelbulb formula, in next Mandelbox and in some other IFS.
these are the most beautiful things i have ever seen, the most beautiful things i can possibly imagine. I see them sometimes when i close my eyes and relax.
It's fascinating how feelings are triggered in various visual spaces. Small spaces feel cramped but interesting, wide open caverns feel like expanses and the stomach drops. Just really interesting virtual experiences from artificially generated fractals.
sometimes, i think people forget just how beautiful math can be. how a series of numbers, figures, and dimensions can give us something as individual and as completely alien as this. and change one small factor in the equation, you get something completely different. with an infinite number of numbers, there are literally multiple infinities of possibilities.
This is truly mind-blowing. I enjoyed watching it. But it doesn't look like a man-made thing. I also wouldn't say it is a computer-generated thing. The developer that programmed the computer to show us this "object" reminds me of a microscope-operator focusing his microscope on a certain target. The medium to view fractals are numbers and computers while the medium to view an insect's eye are light and a microscope. I suppose you had to go through a lot of memory-leak problems, CPU usage issues and multi-threading management problems. The end-result is really amazing and inspiring. Thanks for your hard work and for sharing it with us.
WOW! I've been away from fractals for a while just to come back and see these new discoveries! Its not just simply amazing! Its MIND BLOWING! Great work on the software! I hope to start learning it these days. This video just takes my breath away! Excellent work! I hope that you will share more with the community! Thank YOU!
Is it weird that I find this a rather pleasurable experience, rather than scary/melancholic? It feels very relaxing. It's like visiting a complex, futuristic, organic temple of some sorts, and we're just gently flying through it, taking a look at it all.
I feel a bit nostalgic while watching this, I get the feeling that I know this place, but this whole idea don't make any sense to me. I'm actually really confused.
Absolutely incredible. Parts of it seemed as if I were flying through a cave. Other times it was as if I was flying over alien cities. Loved it! Wonderful work.
If you generate a discrete set of the fractal (e.g. a voxel representation at a certain scale) you can explore a fractal object in real time. My engine does this: github.com/matortheeternal/CVoxelEngine
This has to be the best looking fractal zoom I've seen yet. The fractal is very beautiful and the rendering suits it perfectly. I also found the music very tasteful. :-)
So the "center" of a fractal is a visual central point of reference? Rather than a definite (nonexistent) center of a given fractal? Because it looks like they're pretty endless in details/depth, yet it's said they do have centers.
Yes you're correct. There is no true "center" because fractals, by definition, exhibit patterns that display at any given scale even as you approach infinitely large or small proportions. You could say that the center, wherever it is, is definitely contained somewhere within that square area. But there's no way to quantify it or point at its exact location.. unless you had an infinitely tiny finger :D
They have but they are a single point and you can't zoom in infinitely you can come as near as you want as long you don't touch it. Like the real numbers, there are infinite much but no one is infinite itself. But you can always come closer to infinity.
Not really, since you can make a mathematical argument that the center is the halfway point between two equidistant vectors on either side of the fractal center.
@keijigo, we are traveling trough 3D space. It is not a zoom. But the fractal has unlimited amount of detail. When camera goes closer to fractal surface, there is visible more details.
Wow man you've really taken this to another level. This one would look really good, with the same black that you used on the Mandelbox w/ the red background.
Incredible creation my friend. What an amazing perception..Someone was right, seeing something like this with 3D Shutter Glasses + The Music + HD 1080P = Eyecandy Bliss of the senses... Is anyone doing these Fractals in High Definition 3D?? I would love to see that..WOW!
Math, the final frontier. these are the voyages of the computer Xlace. it's mission, to go strange new places, to seek out new equations and new patterns. To boldly go where no man can ever go. This is beautiful.
i love how he shows how you can go around the center into the exact same room over and over again, i understand it ...wow.. trippy. mandelbrot set... the thumb print of god.. thats my religion
@H41909, It depends on the formula. Sometimes it behave as you described, but sometimes with some formulas it is possible to zoom without dissolving of details.
this is the most beautifull thing i ever saw in my life. its way better than real life. even though this is reality as we are living in a fractal infinite multiverse. but thats just beautifull right there. i would use this kind of fractal as an inspiration for my bookseries that i need to write. this fractal was the main reason i wanted to write about fractals. (well, maybe it was because of the Mandelbrot Set)
I would have to agree...This is the best fractal animation I have seen yet. 160 hours to render? I understand. How long did it take before rendering to set this up, compile it, set in all the camera points, etc.? It is an amazing amount of work. Are you going to try to create a 60 minute version and market it? It is worthy.
This is astounding, strangely alien and majestic - travelling through a realized visual manifestation of the absolute universal truth that is mathematics/geometry (maybe even _sacred_ geometry..?). Can we please get a re-render in 4K? I need more details in this insanely vast fractal!
I wonder if Benoit Mandelbrot managed to have a play around in this software before his death? I believe he would be proud of the people who programmed Mandelbulb 3D... Truly a remarkable breakthrough in the relationship between art, mathematics and nature.
This is the most amazing fractal I've ever seen. I am trying to create something like that myself. As far as I can judge there are some elements from Amazing Box. But, what tool do you use to form it like that? Did you use Mandelbulb 3d? If not, what program then? Thank you!
I suddenly have an urge to do this in realtime... :3 Models generated through geometry shaders, simplified meshes with parallax mapping and/or geometry tessellation, "true impostors" technique; a quadcore machine with the latest midrange geforce should be able to run it. Damn you for stealing the next year or two of my free time :D
I love Mandelbulb animations! How easily do Mandelbulbs transfer to 3D game engines like Unreal? I imagine you would have to initially render at a scale that would be fixed in the game engine--no infinite scaling--fixed, much like in this video. Still, I can see Mandelbulbs as being an interesting foundation for a game. Also for free-roaming VR navigation. Once in a game engine, the general sterile, lifeless feel of a Mandelbulb could be imbued with the alien life that they imply---the holes in the walls look like windows and entryways to drone domiciles, with some of the bigger, free-floating objects probably inhabited by a hierarchy of controllers and dignitaries. Is anyone working on anything like this?
Stunning! This fractal reminds me of a cross between the H.R. Giger derelict spacecraft in "Alien" and the massive V'Ger interiors from "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." It's a sci-fi fractal if there ever was one! Can you keep doing more please?
The two moods of the music totally change the feel of the visual element. Either utter dread and anxiety from such a vast, surreal space, or profound wonder and loneliness from... well, such a vast, surreal space.
Also, epic clown face in the top left at the end!
As I was watching this video, I was tried to picture it as a city, but it's near to impossible to conclude it's that, since it doesn't have to have an earthly kind of shape. I felt amazingly trapped and way beyond the bounds of space and time.I truly enjoy this kind of stuff, whether high or not.
I tried*, the "was" before it escaped my notice.
+etiar31 I always see this as a spacecraft station
funny how somewhere, this exists in the universe yuh know?
I can totally see this being a big-ass spacestation.
Radon Mapping ye maybe with a mandelbtot spaceship like in the vid called Hidden Structures of the Mandelbrot and Julia Sets inhabiting it
If this were a mothership, I'd be lost in two seconds. Please add street signs for the recursively challenged!
Take some LSD and you'll change your mind on that statement :)
XDFreakLPxD I am not sure I didnt. Its very ironic to call trip...
This was a great sci fi trip
better than movies
I agree and they even put alien like music in this
The structures you can make with fractals, especially in 3 dimensions, are incredible. I've never heard of a hybrid fractal though. What makes a fractal hybrid?
It is hybrid because during iterations there are used several different fractal formulas. For instant in first iteration there is used Mandelbulb formula, in next Mandelbox and in some other IFS.
Krzysztof Marczak Ah I see. Thanks for the reply.
Krzysztof Marczak Gratulacje! Efekt jest niesamowity :)
WOOW! One of the coolest fractals I've seen so far. These should be put in a compilation DVD.
Absolutely stunning! It's like a trip inside a huge psychedelic spaceship - best mandelbulb video I've seen so far!
these are the most beautiful things i have ever seen, the most beautiful things i can possibly imagine. I see them sometimes when i close my eyes and relax.
This is simply the BEST video I have ever seen on youtube...hands down....bar none. This is absolutely fantastic!
It's fascinating how feelings are triggered in various visual spaces. Small spaces feel cramped but interesting, wide open caverns feel like expanses and the stomach drops. Just really interesting virtual experiences from artificially generated fractals.
FREAKIN' AWESOME!!
BEAUTIFUL, MAJESTIC, ORDERLY, SERENE, PEACEFUL...
Truly amazing...and the music makes it even better. Spectacular.
"Trippy",excellent, mysterious work !
That is what the core of an alien spacecraft looks like.
imagine an alien mothership and it's core is just an infinite fractal dimension with no access or exit points
This is what the inside of large spacecraft should look like. Self assembly with simple rules is so organic.
sometimes, i think people forget just how beautiful math can be. how a series of numbers, figures, and dimensions can give us something as individual and as completely alien as this. and change one small factor in the equation, you get something completely different. with an infinite number of numbers, there are literally multiple infinities of possibilities.
This is truly mind-blowing. I enjoyed watching it.
But it doesn't look like a man-made thing. I also wouldn't say it is a computer-generated thing. The developer that programmed the computer to show us this "object" reminds me of a microscope-operator focusing his microscope on a certain target. The medium to view fractals are numbers and computers while the medium to view an insect's eye are light and a microscope.
I suppose you had to go through a lot of memory-leak problems, CPU usage issues and multi-threading management problems. The end-result is really amazing and inspiring. Thanks for your hard work and for sharing it with us.
It is infinitely detailed
Soundtrack is perfect, Well done.
This is a great Mandelbox. It's complex enough to be beautiful, but simple enough that the self-similarity is obvious. Excellent music, too.
I am breathless, this video is a mystic experience through the mystere...
I know this is art, because I feel changed and bettered for having seen it...thank you !!!
WOW! I've been away from fractals for a while just to come back and see these new discoveries! Its not just simply amazing! Its MIND BLOWING! Great work on the software! I hope to start learning it these days. This video just takes my breath away! Excellent work! I hope that you will share more with the community! Thank YOU!
It's a real masterpiece of Fractal Art.
Thank you very much for your contribution.
Is it weird that I find this a rather pleasurable experience, rather than scary/melancholic? It feels very relaxing. It's like visiting a complex, futuristic, organic temple of some sorts, and we're just gently flying through it, taking a look at it all.
where is this i want to visit one day
Try heaven
You just did it
Isdk!; j
smoke some DMT
I feel a bit nostalgic while watching this, I get the feeling that I know this place, but this whole idea don't make any sense to me. I'm actually really confused.
Absolutely incredible. Parts of it seemed as if I were flying through a cave. Other times it was as if I was flying over alien cities. Loved it! Wonderful work.
if only there is something like this in real time
quantum computers in future
Fayez Salka LSD? DMT? Ketamin? Magic shrooms?
Haniff Din Don't worry :) Safety first.
If you generate a discrete set of the fractal (e.g. a voxel representation at a certain scale) you can explore a fractal object in real time. My engine does this: github.com/matortheeternal/CVoxelEngine
Very impressive work, wow!
It would be nice to render it for 360° and cardboard
This has to be the best looking fractal zoom I've seen yet. The fractal is very beautiful and the rendering suits it perfectly. I also found the music very tasteful. :-)
Looks like a huge mothership
So the "center" of a fractal is a visual central point of reference? Rather than a definite (nonexistent) center of a given fractal? Because it looks like they're pretty endless in details/depth, yet it's said they do have centers.
Yes you're correct. There is no true "center" because fractals, by definition, exhibit patterns that display at any given scale even as you approach infinitely large or small proportions. You could say that the center, wherever it is, is definitely contained somewhere within that square area. But there's no way to quantify it or point at its exact location.. unless you had an infinitely tiny finger :D
They have but they are a single point and you can't zoom in infinitely you can come as near as you want as long you don't touch it. Like the real numbers, there are infinite much but no one is infinite itself. But you can always come closer to infinity.
Not really, since you can make a mathematical argument that the center is the halfway point between two equidistant vectors on either side of the fractal center.
It feels like I'm walking in the adventerous maze and space. this is going straight to my favorites videos. You are amazing! :D
I could see this being some kind of alien space station!
@keijigo, we are traveling trough 3D space. It is not a zoom. But the fractal has unlimited amount of detail. When camera goes closer to fractal surface, there is visible more details.
I am so pleased to learn about this form of visual meditation tool thank you
1:09 that was a really disrespectful flyby, putting the ceiling too close, I thought it would hurt. devil tre saxon
still gotta say, I love seeing this every so often and it's just great 😌 if only there was more like this
Teacher: the Test isn‘t that confusing.
The Test:
Wow man you've really taken this to another level. This one would look really good, with the same black that you used on the Mandelbox w/ the red background.
Utterly awesome and completely mesmerizing.
You nailed the physics. Very smooth transitions.
just wanted to say how much I enjoy your videos. awesome stuff!!
Thanks for sharing the software with us.
This is so incredible...I'm speechless!!!
Thank you for sharing
So awesome. You make us see what no man has seen before.
Incredible creation my friend. What an amazing perception..Someone was right, seeing something like this with 3D Shutter Glasses + The Music + HD 1080P =
Eyecandy Bliss of the senses...
Is anyone doing these Fractals in High Definition 3D?? I would love to see that..WOW!
absolutely LOVE this :-) thanks for taking the time to make it.
This is sooo coool!!!!
Awesome video!!
Stunning art. It was like flying through a massive ancient alien craft.
Simply Magnificent!
Beautiful chaos... of pattern... or whatever the hell just happened
Mesmerising! Nice work! Perfect music track chosen
This is precisely why I'm looking forward for newer processors. I can't wait to be able to explore these in real time.
Math, the final frontier. these are the voyages of the computer Xlace. it's mission, to go strange new places, to seek out new equations and new patterns. To boldly go where no man can ever go.
This is beautiful.
love the energy in this would be spectacular on a large screen in 3d
i love how he shows how you can go around the center into the exact same room over and over again, i understand it ...wow.. trippy. mandelbrot set... the thumb print of god.. thats my religion
Nice one Krzysztof! This is exactly the sort of thing this music was written for :-)
Wicked shapes! Looks totally like an alien spacecraft.Can't wait til video games can do this sort of stuff real-time.
One of the best ones so far! Excellent work :)
非常に美しいフラクタルアートの映像ですね。接近しながら通りぬけ場面は迫力がありますね。映像と選択された音楽の構成は素晴しいですね。数十年前に見た映写機３台のシネラマを思い出します。（私的ガイドラインに適合）（動画のタイトル名は、ハイブリッドフラクタルの中心への旅（英語を日本語に翻訳です。）私はアカウントを３個使っています。その点宜しくお願いします。
曼曼曼さん。お早うございます。+１をありがとうございます。あなたに今日も良いことがありますように！日本から、
Капитан Немоさん。こんにちは、多数の+有り難うございます。日本から、
Róża Strf.こんにちは、多数の+有り難うございます。あなたに今日も良いことがありますように！日本から、
"... and saw that it was good." Thanks for this xlace.
@H41909, It depends on the formula. Sometimes it behave as you described, but sometimes with some formulas it is possible to zoom without dissolving of details.
Wow, that was awesome. Felt a little like the "Myst" games.
Fascinating trip, very well programmed.
well done.. definitely one of my favorites
this is the most beautifull thing i ever saw in my life. its way better than real life. even though this is reality as we are living in a fractal infinite multiverse. but thats just beautifull right there. i would use this kind of fractal as an inspiration for my bookseries that i need to write. this fractal was the main reason i wanted to write about fractals. (well, maybe it was because of the Mandelbrot Set)
Stunning trip!
4:23 Holy crap! The white triangle shape in the top left corner looks like a creepy clown face.
Awesome, this is how I imagine the insides of alien spaceships or buildings 😎
When you visit your friend's house and you're new to it
I would have to agree...This is the best fractal animation I have seen yet. 160 hours to render? I understand. How long did it take before rendering to set this up, compile it, set in all the camera points, etc.? It is an amazing amount of work. Are you going to try to create a 60 minute version and market it? It is worthy.
Man I've had some life changing experiences to this video
This fractal + virtual reality jetpack = heaven.
Awesome graphics AND music.
It looks like something from a dream. So mysterious.
The knowledge that I can know that this goes for forever scares the shit out of me. but it's so fascinating that I can't help exploring
wOw, I would love to see this in a Digital 3d theatre! this has an intense feeling of scale to it.
This is astounding, strangely alien and majestic - travelling through a realized visual manifestation of the absolute universal truth that is mathematics/geometry (maybe even _sacred_ geometry..?). Can we please get a re-render in 4K? I need more details in this insanely vast fractal!
2:16 was definitely the setting of a dream
I will get myself lightly drunk and then watch this video for a simulated LSD experience.
Нереальная красота!
sooooo relaxing... thank you for posting!:)
Imagine the day when you would be able to just fly around in this world, forever
everything cold and glittering shifting in the light, windows into other rooms that recede forever.
Anybody else read "Trip to center of hybrid fractal" as a command?
WillyTheComposer if you say so sir, I’m on it!
I wonder if Benoit Mandelbrot managed to have a play around in this software before his death? I believe he would be proud of the people who programmed Mandelbulb 3D... Truly a remarkable breakthrough in the relationship between art, mathematics and nature.
Krzysztof! have you got more of these???
Awesome!
I've been looking for my Codimension[0] Gauss-Green Mothership... please hand over the coordinates. Thanks.
This is the most amazing fractal I've ever seen. I am trying to create something like that myself. As far as I can judge there are some elements from Amazing Box. But, what tool do you use to form it like that? Did you use Mandelbulb 3d? If not, what program then? Thank you!
First please read video description, then ask :)
if mandelbrot had seen this, he would have died from an heart attack!
Thanks, Mandelbrot, for laying the cornerstone!
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!!! The music was perfect for this wonderful journey!!!! Awesome video!!!!!!
It is like an alien architecture. It is not made by humans.
I suddenly have an urge to do this in realtime... :3
Models generated through geometry shaders, simplified meshes with parallax mapping and/or geometry tessellation, "true impostors" technique; a quadcore machine with the latest midrange geforce should be able to run it.
Damn you for stealing the next year or two of my free time :D
this has changed my life.
I love Mandelbulb animations! How easily do Mandelbulbs transfer to 3D game engines like Unreal? I imagine you would have to initially render at a scale that would be fixed in the game engine--no infinite scaling--fixed, much like in this video. Still, I can see Mandelbulbs as being an interesting foundation for a game. Also for free-roaming VR navigation. Once in a game engine, the general sterile, lifeless feel of a Mandelbulb could be imbued with the alien life that they imply---the holes in the walls look like windows and entryways to drone domiciles, with some of the bigger, free-floating objects probably inhabited by a hierarchy of controllers and dignitaries. Is anyone working on anything like this?
+BigMTBrain We can't process this in real time. GPU speeds aren't there yet.
You're in the zone mate!
isnt there screensavers like this? iv heard of electric sheep and others but none ive seen so beautiful
I have no idea what I just watched, but it's awesome.
Are we there yet?
Amazing video! But I've got 1 question, how do you calculate the camera path so it doesn't collide with anything?
Stunning! This fractal reminds me of a cross between the H.R. Giger derelict spacecraft in "Alien" and the massive V'Ger interiors from "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." It's a sci-fi fractal if there ever was one! Can you keep doing more please?