Fractal Z=((Z^3+3Z(C-1)+(C-1)(C-2))/(3Z^2+3Z(C-2)+(C-1)(C-2)+1))^2

[MrDuncanBelfast]

We've gone plaid!

But in all seriousness, this is pretty cool.

[sunnyztmoney]

There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction we are going There's no knowing where we're rowing Or which way the river's flowing Is it raining? Is it snowing? Is a hurricane a-blowing? Not a speck of light is showing So the danger must be growing Are the fires of hell a-glowing? Is the grisly reaper mowing? Yes, the danger must be growing 'Cause the rowers keep on rowing And they're certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing!

[TheXxmad4everxx]

WTF is this ?

[alphamone]

those moire patterns remind me of the old dr who intros.

[RoboticusMusic]

interferogram



[MisterAlexandre1407]

Scary but very cool :)

[DHeatherC]

Man, that is wild...what a trip! At one point it made me think that this is what dying is like... a mass of colours merging and blurring, changing...true transformation through death...

[phydroxide]

Saw a comment urging us to see the final product and it would be much better... not really.

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

@phydroxide Sorry you feel that way man obviously a lot of people dissagree. I'll be the first to admit this is not for everyone. To each his own.

[TheJay1017]

@JeremiahLaMontagne just out of curiosity whats your IQ??

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

@TheJay1017 I don't actually know. I never took an official IQ test. I imagine that I am probably only slightly above average though.

[BeckyliciousZephyr]

@phydroxide I thought it was good, there were all sorts of optical illusion stimulating images throughout JeremiahLaMontagne's video. If I were to guess the reason it wasn't good for you, I'd say maybe your screen is too small or your computer is too slow....or perhaps you might visit an optometrist and make sure your vision isn't degraded. Other than that, unless you are just mean and critical...I don't know...not trying to be confrontational here, but just wanted to respond to your comment.

[darkgear6]

Holy crap that end

[sarahashton18]

This is to easy! What The heck!!!!!

[entropede]

Trippy as hell! Great work!

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

Oh and show it to your friends, post it to facebook, see what other people think of it. Have a conversation about it:) Then you can find maybe a collective understanding of the piece. Honestly though I am from a school where once I have created something it is out of my hands. It is not my place to determine your experience of my creation I am not a Machiavellian artist.

[Ezixax]

WTF.... Tell us what it means D:

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

@Ezixax The answer is 42. lol. It means what you want it to mean. It is purely about the experience and you as the viewer with your own individual experience will add your own meaning. If I have done my job well then you will have an experience that you can come back to from time to time and discover new meaning:)

[Ezixax]

@JeremiahLaMontagne So thats why the answer to the universe on google is 42

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

@Ezixax Not Just the Universe.  Life the Universe and Everything;)

[Ezixax]

@JeremiahLaMontagne but 2x2 isnt 42 D:

[LukeVilent]

Crap! So that's up to some point the way my laptop works.

[TheSynthetic]

I feel strange! i love it!!! seems like and hypnotic trip!! DO WANT!

[melis256]

Shit! That was like the wackiest thing ever X-O

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

@melis256 Thanks! Be sure to share it with your friends and on facebook. I recently submitted it to have a chance at being in a show at the guggenheim! Wish me luck:)

[invis878787]

I wrote this formula in Xaos and didnt see same pickture :(

Had just black circle. Could you give me .xpf file ?

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

@invis878787 Hey sorry I can not give you the xpf file as I don't have it any more only the exported frames. Explore different options and into the fractal some. you will be able to find it:)

[iwantcoolname]

terrible moir!

[suphysis]

This is one of those rare gems you sometimes happily discover on YouTube.

Is this just a part of the installation or the whole video? It seemed to me the ending was a bit abrupt. I was expecting the Risset glissando to end up in a "singularity"

Isn't the moire patterns that arise from your own monitor what creates the psychodelic trip towards the end (the last minute)? I believe it is the interference pattern of the bands getting closer toghether what creates the illusion.

[JunThailand]

This equation will be refered by many many persons...... Thank for let us come closer to understand nature. sorry for english

[drose00]

ps: if i relax my eyes at around 6:57 my vision peripheral to your video RIPPLES. woah.

[drose00]

absolutely stunning!

the risset auditory illusion is nice but if you applied some of the same fractal math to the spatiality, rhythm, and number of overtones of a tri wave or two it would fit better. maybe modulate the pitch ever so slightly in the fractal pattern as well.

my two cents! great job!

[Raudun]

I didn't get it..:(

[NOOBLMAO]

my brain

[HERBERT1900]

what is suppose to do!!!!!!!!!

[JOJOKYRA]

Superb!

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

Thank you:) please share it with your friends!

[Focrak]

scary ass shit D:

[poolsuporter]

Daaamn, trippy! Awesome stuff dude!

[persephone750]

Whoa. Those sine waves gave me a dizzying headache.

[dr00min]

Fantastic!

[FOOLYCOOLY]

Aren't sound waves longitudinal instead of sine? Not sure. In any case, this video is fascinating. Great work, and I'm very happy I watched this.

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

You are absolutely right. Sound waves in physical reality are longitudinal waves.

The representation of sound by a sine wave is merely an attempt to illustrate the sinusoidal nature of the pressure-time fluctuations. That said in the world of computerized sound sine waves are what is used to represent sound.

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

It is the translation of the perfect sine waves used in creating the illusion into the longitudinal waves that fill the sound stage where the sound is being heard that "hotspots" occur dude to the compression and refraction of the sinusoidal sound coming from the speakers.

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

This happens with any type of sound not just sine waves. However Normal sound is complicated enough that the compressions and refractions turn into white noise that your brain largly ignores. Because of the pure tone nature of sine wave the compression and refraction of sine waves produces recognizeable over/undertones and amplitude differences based entirely on the shape of the room and the orientation of the speakers. That's probably way more of an answer than you were looking for.

[FOOLYCOOLY]

Wow, nice in-depth response. That really clears my question up, and intrigues me all the more :) thank you.

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

That is a very good question. Some mysteries are better left unsolved though. I can't give away too much of my artistic process;) I've got an artists mystique to uphold. lol.

[jackskellingtonation]

is the camera moving at the same speed in the same direction throughout the whole clip?

[jackskellingtonation]

did u do this? if so whered you get the equipment and learned how to?this is all so very interesting. i love physics and hope tto be a quantum physicist one day although i hardly know a thing bout the subject.

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

I did do this. Using a Mac Pro. I did about a years worth of research on the subject and then it took me about another year to make the piece. I only do this on the side in my spare time though. Although not strictly related I would recommend Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter.

[jgriffs]

Very cool. The sensation of zooming in and out is fascinating. The whole illusion reminds me of the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. "Space" is ALIVE.... I emailed you my bank account info, but you never replied. What's the story with that! ;-)

[AllFractUp]

I've made interference patterns in extreme deep zooms. They're cool to watch because there is the sense of motion from the outward zoom and motion from the shape itself. Often they look like they are squirming or pulsating like it did for this example. I have a number of low resolution fractal videos that you can see this in.

[whiteash002]

Oh God, I started to see things there for a moment at around 4:55 to 5:02.

[pajondio]

Well, yeah, the pitch seems to increase or decrease, but it's like there are two sound channels which actualy vary in pitch, increasing and then, suddenly starting again, but it is done alternatively by the two channels, so while we focus in the increasing of one of them, the other suddenly falls to the beginning stage. Is this what it is all about?

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

There are a number of ways to do the Pitch illusion. The way I did it is not technically perfect. There are places towards the end where the illusion was broken for expressive purposes. See: John Shepard & Jean Claude Risset. The way I did it was to have 12 fundamental pitches (a chromatic scale) and 12 octaves, starting somewhere around 20Hz. If you can imagine each of these fundamentals and their harmonics as overlapping bell curves where the Y axis is amplitude.

[oflanpando23]

uhhh this was cool but it didnt do anything

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

What did you expect it to do? It is just youtube after all...

[PivotArse]

this is amazing

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

Thank you! Please consider posting a link to it on facebook/myspace:)

[chandlerbeckhoff]

ahhh shit the the nnoise i hear before the aliens come!!!!

[rspk25]

Hey, What is this video supose to do?

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

If you haven't emailed me you bank account information yet it didn't work :P

[alexcrafterac]

Impressive stuff.

[time4pwnagenow]

cool

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

Thanks, I know I sound like a broken record but please post this to your facebook or myspace. As an independent artist I don't have many promotional options available to me other than word of mouth.

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

FLVplayer200 made this comment but it was accidentally removed:

This video is the best sensory experience I've had on youtube. I genuinely got lost in the video while on fullscreen. A huge amount of respect and gratitude for your creativity and effort

[flvplayer2000]

yep, thanks. dunno what happened there O_o

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

YW I might quote you for film festival promotional material:)

[SkateFallen55]

What is this supposed to do

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

entertain:) That or turn you in to an incoherent coma patient ala Snowcrash, lol.

[AZoje]

cool

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

Thanks, please post a link to your facebook page or myspace and help a small independant artist get some recognition! Again thanks for the view!

[JeremiahLaMontagne]

If you like this video please post/embed it to your facebook and myspace pages! The only way this will get attention is by word of mouth.

[stephgolski]

liked the addition of the intro! not sure the dog liked the auditory illusion but i think both visual and auditory parts are fascinating