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FractalNet HD - Slow deep Mandelbrot zoom

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Uploaded by on Feb 7, 2009

A slow deep zoom into the Mandelbrot set, generated by FractalNet, my distributed fractal renderer.

The original 1920x1080 HD version of this video required a total of 90,459 billion iterations (an average of 26.8 billion iterations per frame). It took 12 days 1 hour 17 minutes to render on my 2.4GHz iMac.

Watch this video in HD on Vimeo at http://www.vimeo.com/3111205

More videos and hundreds of images available at http://michael-hogg.co.uk/fractalnet.php

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  • @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 :)

  • @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.

  • 12 days ?!?!

  • @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!

  • Sweet video!

    What's the title of the music?

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

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

  • 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!

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

  • love the video man

  • This is absolutely beautiful.Thanks.

  • Say "A Zi Da Phat" = Mean Nirvana

  • Infinite of Buddha

  • Buddha everywhere in this fractal video...

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

  • Can you see the buddha? 2:10

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

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

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