FractalNet HD - Slow deep Mandelbrot zoom

[MrCrunchy29]

if you dont watch this high you will die an incomplete man.

[smuggecko]

love the video man

[15hmael]

This is absolutely beautiful.Thanks.

[Estienguyen]

Say "A Zi Da Phat" = Mean Nirvana

[Estienguyen]

Infinite of Buddha

[Estienguyen]

Buddha everywhere in this fractal video...

[aortizc82]

This is so impressive! It's like watching the universe itself.

[aortizc82]

Can you see the buddha? 2:10

[d3s3rtray]

anyone else feel like their looking at a map of the universe?

[MrMoist2206]

could someone give me a quick rundown what the maths is?

[Egotoastbrot]

Mandelception?

[vudu8ball]

This is how something very complex arises from something very simple. Think a world full of life, a human brain, or the universe itself.

[tubaman539]

@vudu8ball I would have to argue that the very structure of our universe is the Mandelbrot set.

[vudu8ball]

@tubaman539

If not the Mandelbrot set than some other fractal formula I agree.

[mushroomagical]

Great one!

[notfancy2000]

@MichaelHoggUK Excellent directing and editing! The perfect combination of sight and music blew my mind.

[ominiticgaming]

WE HAVE TO GO DEEPER.

[Rahff84]

@MichaelHoggUK what software do you use to create this ?? I'm guessing not something you learned in art class :) this is really awesome ! Is it possible to set different colord schemes ? Different speeds ? I need to know moooorre :)

[MichaelHoggUK]

@Rahff84 I wrote my own software (FractalNet), which I used to create all the fractal videos on my YouTube channel. A lot of parameters can be adjusted - speed/timing, panning, zooming in/out, rotating, colour cycling, transitioning from one colour scheme to another, morphing a Julia set by tracing a path through the Mandelbrot set, and a Google Earth style of parabolic flight path between two locations in a fractal.

[Rahff84]

12 days ?!?!

[MichaelHoggUK]

@Rahff84 Yes :) The final 60 seconds of the video were very slow to render, because zooming into a narrow gap between two black areas of the Mandelbrot set always requires a lot more iterations. Every frame of the animation is 3840 x 2160 pixels (scaled down to 1920 x 1080 antialised), which is a lot of pixels to render, and an awful lot of iterations - an average of 26.8 billion iterations per frame!

[aR3mYs]

great colors totally like a deep space journey

[toujours5e]

nice very nice

[JackieandMandy411]

Mesmerizing.

[DainXC]

Some of my first memories are of images like these. I dreamt of such things before I could speak or walk.

[DainXC]

0:47 These shapes remind me distinctly of elephant trunks.

[NoxNoctisUmbra]

This is the answer to the universe, never ending. We are all one mind.

[DainXC]

@NoxNoctisUmbra What is separating my consciousness for yours?

[sosezisay]

Thank You, for posting a Mandelbrot video that doesn't have music that makes me want to gouge my eyeballs out. RIP Benoît Mandelbrot

[oscaraigle7601]

Sweet video!

What's the title of the music?

[MichaelHoggUK]

@oscaraigle7601 The music is track 1 from "Ambessence Piano & Drones" by Bruno Sanfilippo & Mathias Grassow.

[robyrakesh]

Awesome !!

[Nooreazy]

HAX

[Toxxi]

More! MORE! DEEPER! FASTER! DEEPER!!!

[luvydubyxp]

@Toxxi hahahaha xD

[Kheopsyco]

sorry for my bad english but,

its just beautiful,thanks universe,thanks nature mysteries

[InfinityOE]

@Kheopsyco Don't be sorry for your English... It sounds great and I can assure you that everybody knows what you are saying.

[ssos93]

Well when it happened there were feelings connected to it. Like it was sharing pain, and sorrow you can't imagine. It felt tired, like it wanted to end, it just wanted to find the end. It felt like it wanted to destroy itself. It felt like I was gathering every ounce of energy in the universe to having the biggest ending you couldn't even comprehend. It was so life changing. I want to get the Mandelbrot set tattooed on my chest

[ssos93]

i smoked a synthetic drug and found myself trapped in this infinity.I had several seizures and my friend said i was screamig while scratching my neck ( i was rushed to the emergency room) i had no idea what a mandelbrot was or anything about infinity .but i got the sensation of infinity. i started drawing it. a few days later i googled what infinty was and i found this. i can not tell you how much shock i am in. this is EXACTLY what i was seeing. it felt like my soul was just exploring itself.

[rinoritymeport]

why is the copy of the set at 1:04 so distorted? Is that really the case or just a calculation artifact (e.g. from using certain escape horizon conditions) ?

[MichaelHoggUK]

@rinoritymeport No, it's not a calculation artifact, that baby Mandelbrot really does have that weird distorted shape. I've seen others which are even more distorted. I'm afraid I don't know the mathematical reason for why they are distorted like that!

[rinoritymeport]

@MichaelHoggUK

thanks for the reply! that's pretty crazy! But the Mandelbrot is somehow a "message form God" to me anyway... it just never stops surprising, and the further down you go, the more surprising things become, there is just no end.

There is also the next level now, in 3D: watch?v=bO9ugnn8DbE

[DainXC]

@rinoritymeport It seems that is the very nature of fractal images. Particularly the Mandelbrot Set in its self. They are self similar. At every level you can find a remarkably homogeneous copy of the main set, and yet, every copy is slightly different. Slightly distorted. No two MiniBrots are the same.

[marsbarz]

It was really the music that made me find this video so incredibly profound and captivating.

[Stickheadz32]

6666th view O_o

[noaidii]

AMAZING !!!!!! First time when i have thrills watching fractals... it's art !

[gekiryudojo]

Beautiful!

[PHASMA1337]

Also, if possible please give a laymans explanation of the image/video is achieved (i would make the guess that simply inputting the mandelbrot equation into a form of rendering software (in your case one you created yourself/impressive) and the rest is histroy)? If possible just a simple explanation, i know nothing of complicated science/maths/ICT, just the logic of life (which is a start)!

[MichaelHoggUK]

@PHASMA1337 Each individual frame of the animation is drawn pixel by pixel using the Mandelbrot equation, z = z^2 + c. The coordinates of each pixel are put into the equation, and the result determines the pixel's colour. My FractalNet software allows you to control the "camera" movement (zoom, pan, rotate) to explore interesting areas of the Mandelbrot set. For more info, see:

fractalus. com/info/layman.htm

shodor. org/mteach/index.html

shodor. org/eoe/aandy/aandy.html

[PHASMA1337]

@MichaelHoggUK Cheers dude! I just about understood that and its pretty much what i guessed but way beyond my contemplation lol. Hugely impressed! Keep it up!

P.S. Is the top image/any part of the mandelbrot set a copyrighted image? If not It should be like the new cross for the coming religion/movement that will raise our ignorant species from the darkness. Watch this space ;)

[test7er]

@MichaelHoggUK how exactly does it put the coordinates of each pixel into the equation?

[PHASMA1337]

Epic, absolutely amazing. Thanks to the compatible colours, this is much more soothing to take in compared to the more phsycadelic coloured Mandelbrot zooms (am i right in saying that this is the footage used by BBC's 'secret life of chaos' documentary? if so congratulations!)

[MichaelHoggUK]

@PHASMA1337 Many thanks for commenting! You're correct - I created this sequence for "The Secret Life of Chaos" ( bbc. co. uk/programmes/b00pv1c3 )

[AllFractUp]

Nicely made. I found this on the fractal forums web site.

[insightfx]

What a beautiful video fractal animation!! Congratulations Michael. The 12 days rendering was worth it. I really like this animation...!!!

~ n a m a s t e ~

[MoroenVarjo]

Awesome...like falling

[MichaelHoggUK]

FractalNet, which I programmed myself. For more info, see michael-hogg. co. uk/fractalnet.php

[wtfisthisification]

this has to be the most beautiful video on youtube

[gmanj88]

No matter how many times I've seen it, the Mandelbrot set continues to leave me speechless. Fractal geometry and chaos are going to yield so much in the coming decades/centuries--I'm sure of it!

[Geo877]

@gmanj88 Totally agree! I've become a little obsessed with them recently

[maruciao]

wow

[TheEndofLore]

I wish this was ten hours long!!!!!!

[MichaelHoggUK]

I think a 10-hour Mandelbrot video would take a while to render :)

However, I am currently working on a 10-minute Mandelbrot video, which will hopefully be finished in a month or two... watch this space!

[Brottfarir]

Looking forward!

[MichaelHoggUK]

My new video is now on YouTube!

2010: A Mandelbrot Odyssey

youtube. com/watch?v=Qj0SL58no-k

Enjoy!

[finalman242]

Very nice! So crisp, yet alias free. Good job!

[xanthoptica]

I was looking for a subtle and elegant M-set zoom for my course - I love the way you carefully highlighted distinct features, and the ending on the tiny version of the big M-set is a perfect final note. Beautiful!

[chickaboo232]

whats the music!

[MichaelHoggUK]

The music is track 1 from "Ambessence Piano & Drones" by Bruno Sanfilippo & Mathias Grassow. You can buy this track on iTunes.

[sonoki82]

This is excellent. A lot of Mandelbrot zooms are very fast, as though creator was in a a rush to get somewhere. This is paced just right, allowing the viewer to explore the detail of the M-set.

Any chance you would consider doing a longer one?

[MichaelHoggUK]

Thanks for commenting! Unfortunately, I can't zoom any deeper than this video (FractalNet doesn't support arbitrary precision calculations yet). However, I could make a longer video by zooming in and out to explore different regions of the M-set. I might do this, if I can find the time!

[SterusXN89]

it's like a universe

[AtheistJohn]

Wow, wow, wow! Thanks for such a high quality and creative Mandelbrot Zoom! I often pause other zooms on YouTube to enjoy a particular scene and I really appreciate the built in scenic pauses in this one.

[Fayewn]

that was definately worth the twelve days. Soooooooooo amazing.

[captainmoe]

Sweet vid, nice and smooth.

[hornetassault]

Fantastic!

Very polished, nice music and a great M-Set.

5 Stars.

[livelyx]

Good work, I liked the subtilty of the

slow zoom and the music was well

sync'd