Here’s a nutty little fellow created with Mandelbulb3D v1.82 (Amazing Surface formula) and Photoshop.
I plan on doing a tutorial one of these days on how to create fractals with mixed textures. Yep, one of these days …
I hope everyone had a wonderful summer! As usual, I’ve been busily killing idle CPU cycles with a multitude of sloooooooow-rendering animations, some of which I hope to actually complete this year.
Like many Mandelbulb3D artists these days, I’ve discovered the fun in a freaky formula: The Amazing Surface. If you can imagine taking a sheet of paper and a dividing it up logarithmic-ally, then twisting and warping all the subdivided sections, you might begin to get an idea of what this formula does. Personally, I’m still wrapping my mind around it.
This image is 100% Amazing Surface, with the exception of Photoshop for the drop shadow and copyright.
Well, here’s another strange Mandelbulb3d fractal animation that took an incredibly long time to create.
As you may suspect from the title, I was inspired by a bit of green alcohol. Cheers.
This video took roughly four months to render on multiple computers and another month for editing.
While the first half of this video is a fairly conventional “mandelbox & balls” fly-through with music (composed by me (oh wow!)), the second half is uniquely different in tone and spirit.
I was honored to have this video presented at FilmForum’s International Film Studies Conference in Italy earlier this year by Bram de Jong (Freesound.org) as an example of the use of Freesound’s sound effects in visual mediums.
I took this picture of the fly about 10 years ago with the first digital camera I ever owned. It was sitting on a bit of stale cat food that had been left outside and was now collecting visitors. I think the fractal berries are a prettier setting than stale cat food.
