Burning Ship Fractal Deep Zoom Animation

The deepest and first ever HD deep-zoom animation into the Burning Ship fractal. This is one of the creepiest and yet stunningly gorgeous fractals ever.

A slight change in the formula that generates the famous Mandelbrot set gives this fractal incredible Gothic tower shapes. What the Mandelbrot set does with curlicues and spirals, this fractal does with lines, boxes, and angles.

This gargantuan 12,000 frame, 6 minute 40 second, high-definition video magnifies the starting image by a factor of 1.3e100, a hugely deep zoom. It may not be 3D, but nothing like this has ever been seen before!

An 800 MB, 15 Mbps 1280x720 file was uploaded to YouTube. The main HPDZ website has 40 Mbps MP4 and WMV files that are nearly flawless.

This video is dedicated to John Wallis, the 17th century English mathematician who developed the geometrical interpretation of negative numbers that led to the number line, and who pioneered a geometrical visualization of complex numbers, among many other significant contributions to the field.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• burning
• ship
• fractal
• deep
• zoom
• high
• definition
• wallis
• absolute
• value
• complex
• numbers

[AluminumStudios]

Really excellent. The burning ship was a great choice. I love the coloring and your rendering of it.

[DeepZoomNet]

@AluminumStudios Thank you so much. I love this whole group of fractals, and I will be making more videos from them.

[brettbed]

Incredible! Excellent job. Thanks for sharing

[DeepZoomNet]

@brettbed Glad you like it.

[songoten91]

This is so Awesome it's a shame only 647 people watched it. Thank you very much for your efforts, they are fully compensated by the result. Actually, I kinda like this more than Mandelbrot, and... man, I was really astonished when the "last" shape of the ship appeared from within after 7 minutes of zooming in. This rocks!

[DeepZoomNet]

@songoten91 Thank you so much! Comments like yours are the reward, my friend.

[JorjEade]

The scientist in me appreciates the beauty in the simplicity of the function that generates this fractal.

The artist in me appreciates its aesthetics and eerily realistic imagery.

The spritualist in me wants to believe that somewhere out there in the complex number field, at some level of zoom, a fractal will one day reveal to us the meaning of life.

..but mostly I just like how damn cool they look.

[Mfunn]

0:36 eiffel tower?

[dreadslayerCH]

Wow, really amazing work! Thanks a lot. Do you mind telling me how exactly you did the coloring? I have successfully rendered the Burning Ship set, but my coloring doesn't look nearly es good as yours! Cheers

[rumblerob]

1.3e100 zoom! To put that in perspective, if you blew up the original fractal to the size of the observable universe, and zoomed in for HALF as long as this video lasts, your final image would be about the size of a proton.

[DemocratLibertarian]

@DeepZoomNet A libertarian who votes for democrats. Ron Paul is not really libertarian. I advocate for the Colombian model of drug laws, pro-choice, and as for the healthcare reform's individual mandate, it's either that or no longer requiring hospital emergency rooms to treat all patients. That's just a sample of it. My basic principle is that the government should only act to protect the commons. But there are a lot more commons than most people realize.

[DeepZoomNet]

@DemocratLibertarian You are welcome, and I appreciate the comments. What's a democrat libertarian?

[DeepZoomNet]

@JorjEade Thanks! This is certainly one of my favorites, for all the reasons you listed.

[DeepZoomNet]

@brianboonstra Cool effect, isn't it? Any animation that zooms into something will do this...some kind of fatigue of some neurons that perceive motion, I suppose. Somewhere out there is a great animation of counter-rotating spirals...stare at that for a minute, then look at the world, and it is completely freaky.

[DeepZoomNet]

@Niallphillips The Burning Ship fractals, and the related Buffalo fractal, create these lovely towering pillars. Nothing like the Mandelbrot set with its curves and spirals.