Mandelbrot Fractal Zoom: rainbow island twists

[PaggaInc]

nothing happened lol

[subz78]

video:good

soundtrack:murderous

[SteveArpo]

Your video gives a great impression of the never-ending world of the fractal. Can you make them at hight resolutions?

[iamafractal]

@SteveArpo anything is possible, with more TIME. this one took months to render on a dual core pc circa 2005. I would think my current machine could do this same video in about 3 days... things do get faster.... but i wouldn't do a 3 day fractal, would i... no. i'd want to explore more deeply and end up doing one that even takes THIS machine 3 months. or longer. that's the nature of infinity. it, of course, is impossible to ever see it all.

[onetreehill2709]

who got all warm and fuzzy and didnt know wher u were falling and couldnt look away and didnt want it to end !

[soosd15]

in the end i heard screams :/ but its trippy (Y) :DD

[george79792]

makes me dizzy

[DMdarkmatter]

Quite unusual places you used! Pretty trip!

[BeautyPrettySociety]

All I thought was is this how big the Galaxy is?? That's trippy.

[iamafractal]

@BeautyPrettySociety let's see. the Galaxy is 9x10^20 meters wide... this fractal zoom is 1.04296242 × 10^93 deep... so this fractal zoom is 1.15884713×10^72 times larger than the galaxy...so if you want to put that in perspective, if you start from the beginning of the movie and zoom for about 34 seconds, you will have zoomed so that if the first frame was the size of the galaxy, the one at 34 seconds will be in the 1 meter range.

[TheonlyUser]

wow, what formula is this one? z=z^9+c?

[fatseth]

Wanna try LSD? Watch whole video in fullscreen!

[miticopetpox]

i wish i could live like this forever...

[SusanTheKid]

@nickringer the best comment i´ve ever seen on youtube

[usemoselnitro]

concept:

if the universe is vast and infinite and it never ends with scattered galaxies an stars and planets all round it,wouldnt that make us REALLY small and insuperor to the galaxy. and wouldnt that mean that we dont exist?that we are just parts of a little fractal like the galaxy possibly to be a really small thing compared to something that controlles it?just thinking about it makes me wonder about life

[misskill3r]

is this radiohead?

[iamafractal]

@misskill3r muse...

[misskill3r]

@iamafractal ahh okay i just got both of a cd of each and this song sounds like my radiohead cd.

[1401JSC]

Vitesse névrotique!

Où s'arrête les maths et où commence l'Art?

jeanclaudemeynard com

Why do you think this art form needs music?

[Rockorollo]

whao i think i just timewarped to the dino age wow im stupifide

[nickringer]

This is zoomed in 2^308 times... so if the original image is 600 px wide, by the last frame it would be 3.39*10^95 px wide. On my display that's 16.8cm. So imagine that the original image stretches its borders outside your computer screen as this zooms... that would make it 8.76*10^87km wide. That's 8.76*10^71 LIGHT YEARS. And still infinitely complex at that zoom. The diameter of the observable universe is a paltry 93 billion light-years. You are looking at something 9.42*10^60 times bigger.

[iamafractal]

@nickringer *LIKES* :-)

[dominic7100]

amzing!!!!!

[powermaks]

@nickringer i never knew computers were THAT powerful!

[hyperduke2]

WOOOOOOOOW!

[SusanTheKid]

@iamfractal

I think that's all much simpler than we imagine.

[HaiDerHowAreU]

Wow that black thing must be so little...

[iamafractal]

@HaiDerHowAreU there are an infinite number of mini-mandelbrots in the mandelbrot set... that's just one of them.

[casperfriendly47]

The BEST I have EVER seen. Eager for more and hopefully longer clips. Very effective.

[iamafractal]

@casperfriendly47 I have to get a new PC for it... this one took months to render :-)

[SusanTheKid]

@Sinister7fear this was more than a trip, it was a revelation. i love this song in connection with that video

[iamafractal]

@SusanTheKid that is exactly how I felt when I first discovered the Mandelbrot Fractal. Just to imagine all that complexity can be described by one simple tiny little equation... if that's so, then what does that say about the entire universe?

[1401JSC]

@iamafractal

Yes, what?

[tj1990]

man was a genius

[iamafractal]

RIP Benoit Mandelbrot :'(

[PutUsernamerightHere]

groovy

[samdepot10]

Nice video xD 

[samdepot10]

I saw the exact same thing right after i ate a rotten mushroom.

[BeautyPrettySociety]

@samdepot10 Dang that's a trip. Was it good?

[oto24680]

omg my living rooms walls are wobling

its a issisain

very beatufull 5/5

[TheMeansardine]

this is phenomenal, absolutely beautiful

[freeform144]

very cool zoom and music! i like the classic computer sounds i was hearing.

[mikefromspace]

your soundtrack is maxed beyond the db level. Time for a remix.

[iamafractal]

@mikefromspace

are you sure that's not happening on your end? because all the levels are fine. I would, though, like to make a 10 minute slowed down version of this same zoom, that's a little more contemplative and a little less rushed...

[BEERPOWERkata]

omg thi was crazy thank you man sooo awesome omg

[zker666]

lol do this while you blazed outta ur mind youll go for a ride

[SusanTheKid]

woa mieser flsch

[iamafractal]

@SusanTheKid

I'm not sure what that means...

[nintram]

Music 0/10

Video 10/10

Fractal.

[giannuzzo66]

muse ? nice video

[atlantideales]

son rimasta senza fiato nel vedere questo meraviglioso video!!!

woooooow!!!!!

[pvtjoshuahsu]

My coconut tastes soo bitter on this stranded little deserted tropical paradise of an island....hold on....where's Wilson??.......

[iamafractal]

@pvtjoshuahsu he's in there with the infinite other soccer balls

[fiwaszewski]

LOVE IT!!

[TheSantaTattoo]

I am zoned in on this one! Great Job!!!! ShawN

[lost4soul]

This is beautiful. ;O

[uptownboyz100]

wtf i mus be trippin

[guillersevilla]

how do you rendered this with fractal xtreme?

[guillersevilla]

this is wonderful

unlimited forms

[Stallnig]

Song from Muse "take a bow"

[Stallnig]

music fits perfectly.

I realy cant think of the mathmatic code this uses.

[VinylPusher]

@Stallnig

The 'mathematical code' is Z=Z*Z+C

Simple yet complex.

[kusxmerel]

I have a headache now! :P

[FractAlkemist]

It takes 11 days per frame? My deepest are about 36 hours and thats as far as I get. Still my current project is approaching the 2 year mark .....

Great work!

[iamafractal]

you have something that has taken 2 years to render so far? and only 36 hours per frame? mm... i'm looking forward to seeing what you made....

[FractAlkemist]

It will be 2 years in April. It is a work in progress, diving to E+112. Currently it is up to E+105 and it is posted on my site, look for "Universe 6X".

[ARandomDaydreamer]

that was trippy 0_0

it reminded me of what the light above this dentist chair looked like while i was on laughing gas....

[Kingsammich2]

Oh my god I watched that stoned and my mind was blown

[multack19]

this is crazy cool

[eacls86]

WHAT SOFTWARE DID YOU USE?!

[iamafractal]

Please read the explanation to the right, which clearly says what software I used. Thank you for enjoying!

[TheCpmvMaker]

HIGH AS FUUUCCCKKK!

[nintram]

loved the animation, disenjoyed the song, need to search for replacemend...

[zoom98]

There is fractal software that would have slowed this down to the exact length of the song so you wouldn't have had to speed the song up. The only drawback is the animation would go slower. Nice color palette BTW.

[Yesitis808]

bravo! i cant wait to watch this in "altered states". although i wish i had some of those coordinates.

[iamafractal]

did you watch my other fractal zoom movies? I really like blue oyster spiral extended remix... as for the coordinates, you can just follow where the zoom goes, in your favorite mandelbrot browser. I recommend Fractal Extreme by cygnus software...altered states was a trip apart...

[Yesitis808]

yeah, i downloaded the trial. it cant go that deep.

[treflippunk]

LOL i love the sped up version of take a bow, i was like WTF how is he going to sing the lyrics that fast!

You guys should check out muse's new CD "uprising" it has amazing lyrics that I found were so true to me, look it up if you dare!

[boobertoober626]

yes i too would like to know what that awesome song is -the lyrics are so true!

[PanDeism]

Look up in the thread, it's "Take a Bow" by "Muse" -- it's on the Watchmen soundtrack.... awesome song, awesome movie.... if you consider that the equations that generate fractals can be pretty short and simple by comparison, what better way to convey a huge amount of information about something like how the branches of a lung should develop than to encode it as a fractal?

[hurley3000gt]

This is how the universe(s) works...no matter how far you delve into it, it just keeps going.

[Sinister7fear]

hoooooooly fuck

that

was a trip

[iamafractal]

"take a bow" by muse.

[theamazingcheezit]

What is that AWESOME song called?

[Babkockdood]

THAT

WAS

AWESOME

[888madness]

you sir are an artist

[iamafractal]

I just go where the fractals (and a LOT of patience) take me.

[neBulas]

Beutifull!! thank you for taking the time to calculate that, Its increadable to see the amount of information that is being compressed/doubled when you reach the end..

[iamafractal]

can you tell? it sure was difficult to calculate, towards the end there, and because it takes so long, it is very difficult to explore those high iteration regions... but i really would like to try... with a far faster computer.. well of course i always say that, then i find stuff the new computer takes months to do anyway... oh well. infinity...

[youpi444]

Powerful Fractal Animation ***** Thanks ;o)

[Floatharr]

Holy crap, that is beautiful. The song goes perfectly with the magnificent fractal.

I've never commented, rated or favourited anything before in my years on YouTube but for this, I had to do all three for the first time.

[iamafractal]

well thank you. I'm only sorry that it is so fast. I had to speed it up to be able to keep the music :-/

[Floatharr]

I actually think you could have played with the speed of the zooming a little more to make it even a better experience. For example the first slowdown happens right when the music escalates which seems kind of backwards. Instead you could have started out a little slower and increased the speed as the music closes in on its peak, go insanely fast at the highest point and slow down back to a crawl once the music is ending. :)

[Floatharr]

Damn character limits. Going fast is good, I especially liked the sensation of being overwhelmed by visual information so I would concentrate on the music more. Getting lost in the experience is what this was all about for me.

[iamafractal]

from my standpoint, the frames near the beginning of the video calculated nearly in real time, but by the time you see that slowdown, the frames are starting to take days and weeks each. by the last frame of this, one frame took i believe over 3 weeks to render. I watched the frames in that part unfold over a period of months, so i have had a very good look at the detail towards the end, and just to give a little bit of the feeling i had i slowed it down, as the depth and density increased.

[tattilemos]

Cool!

[kingkiwi2]

lol fractuals are cool but i think theyr pointless coz yeah they go on foever but... it doesnt achieve anything still it luks awesome lol

[iamafractal]

Sure fractals accomplish a lot. Find the PBS NOVA episode on fractals. Fractals have given us fractal shaped antennae (for cell phones) that can not only send and receive a wide range of frequencies, but also are a fraction of the size of a regular antenna. fractals have given us astounding encryption technologies. fractals have had powerful use for movie special effect particle system designs. fractals have touched just about every field, even medicine. it's also how the universe works.

[kingkiwi2]

woah i stand corrected lol

[jollicat]

Hi Iamafractal,

I'm a complete novice with fractals, but just for fun I tried to follow the same 'route' into the Mandelbrot with a program called "Ultra Fractal". I soon discovered that not all 'mandelbrots' are alike if it comes to detail and coloring etc.

Could you please give some info on what program or 'what mandelbrot', you were using for this video?

By the way, watching the video was inspiring ..but the additional info you provided makes it even more 'food for thought'. Thank you!

[iamafractal]

There are a lot of parameters. That's for sure.

I used fractal extreme by cygnus software.

You're going to realize just how intense it is to calculate this fractal as you start to try to do it in real time. some of those deep frames took many many days to calculate...

So I hope you're patient for your glimpse at the barely deep.. well hardly a scratch in ... infinity.. heh.

[jollicat]

Bloody hell.. I thought my computer was pretty fast, but it must look like a snail compared to your system. I managed to follow 'your route' (real time) into the Mandelbrot for about 25 seconds of your video. After that it becomes almost unworkable.

Very nice piece of software by the way.

Thanks again..

[reyknow]

now THAT is a mandelbrot. good job mate.

[skylernova2013]

the name of the song is " take a bow" by muse

[ideitbawx]

muse, eh? it kinda sounded like radiohead, but i don't know either band too well. gonna check it out

[XiDraxxiX]

yeah, 'cept i think the song got effed up. it sounds distorted, sped up to me.

[SunFlareRec]

Congrats man!!!!!!!!

This is the best frac video in youtube!!!!

Whats the name of song????

[NotTooObvious]

hey, that's cool dave

[zettix1]

Yes! Yes! Yes! Kudos! Supreme! Win! Fantastic! I love it! You will bury me! =D

[astronomydomine89]

Seriously one of the best fractal zooms I've ever seen!

[iamafractal]

thanks! I'd like to make an hd version a little slower zooming, but these things take months of computer time, if you want to explore interesting areas.

[BRUMARTUBE]

If we are on the border of the Mandelbrot set, then we are everywhere on its border. We are infinitely multiplied. The physical symmetries have to emerge from an average view from inside. Beautiful video.

[iamafractal]

Of course we can never be ON the border, I suppose. We can at least endeavor to approach it as it continually recedes from us, though.

[BRUMARTUBE]

Are there rational values with non converging zoom? Then we could be encoded in the computation of the zoom. But then we appear, in that sense, also in all little Mandelbrot set. So we would appear In many others and deeper zooms. We would be multiplied. A dovetailing on the many zooms of M would be a universal dovetailing.

[iamafractal]

the values, whatever they are, are merely an artifact of how the calculations were done. I suppose there are an infinite number of ways to view the data, and also an infinite number of results inside.

[AbsurdistLover]

Cool, unique shapes there. I like to think that as you go deeper, and the complexity rises and patterns intermingle, second and third order patterns will emerge and maybe somewhere right at the back of the fractal, we can find our own spacetime.

Weird thought anyway :)

[iamafractal]

technically it's gotta be in there somewhere. objects like the one at 1:00 come as a surprise to many explorers because it is not just a simple juxtaposition of a couple julia localities, but a weird warping of a few. by the time we get to the M at the end of the video, we are dealing with at least 10th or so order juxtaposition by your measure. so sad that it still takes so long to see what's there.

[laLexilalexi]

im stoned! geat shitttt

[oneenatwo]

wow, that was amazing.

[f0rkz]

This was really good man.

[Swimmerboy020480]

AWESOME VIDEO DAVE!