Canyon1

A deep zoom into the western wall of the "canyon" or "seahorse valley" of the Mandelbrot set.

This is colorized using a special algorithm that keeps roughly the same color balance across the whole animation. The colors shift as the needs of each part of the animation change.

This video is present on YouTube in high-quality. And as always, full-size, DVD-quality 640x480 versions are available on the web site. View my channel for details.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• mandelbrot
• set
• fractal
• animation
• deep
• zoom
• seahorse
• canyon
• hpdz

[AllFractUp]

Was your computer busy with other projects for it to take a month to render almost three days of animation?

[DeepZoomNet]

Not sure I understand the question. I don't recall the details, but from the stats at the end of the video, this took 92 hours to render. The quad-core system is essentially dedicated to making these videos.

[AllFractUp]

sorry. Your video stats are 92 hours to render a fractal.  Your other projects have taken less than a month to render damn long projects. So I was wondering if you had other projects running while trying to render this animation.

[DeepZoomNet]

Usually I only do one at a time. Project render time varies a lot depending on where the zoom end-point is. This one only took about 4 days, but some others have taken several weeks.

[AllFractUp]

So how long might an "average" zoom take to pre-program, create/render, finalize one of your animations? IS there three general steps?

1) you create instructions for the fractal software to follow

2) your software then follows those instructions and creates/renders the results

3) you convert that into a video file for the rest of us to see?

For the amount of time you put into programming and rendering is about the same amount of time I spend making them the manual way with 2 hrs final make.

[DeepZoomNet]

Currently, with the software more-or-less stable after about ten years of slowly improving it, this is basically what my production cycle is like:

1) Find something interesting to zoom in to

This can take a lot of exploring

2) Set up a few key frames that mark the start and end

3) Go

The software then generates all the video frames with no input from me.

4) Apply coloring to the video

That sometimes takes a huge amount of work.

5) Convert to MP4 and WMV, then publish.

[AllFractUp]

My current project has an area of interest where each frame takes up to 20 minutes to create. That's the most time I have spent per frame on a project so far.

[AllFractUp]

Gee, when I write it all out my way looks so involved doesn't it? It has become second nature to me, so whatta ya gunna do? The same old routine :)

[AllFractUp]

6) copy the finished originals to two sources for backups and then erase the finished project to make room for my next one

7) run 3 more batch runs on the original copy to apply

7a) my website & copyright

7b) add to that my home use license

7c) add to that my DJ,VJ,musician license

8) finally import the version I want to assemble (original copy, home use, or entertainment licensed) using Video Mach 5 into a .MPG

9) repeat assembly stage at lower res for demo files

[AllFractUp]

I'm not a programmer. Boy that would just drive me nuts...and let me tell ya the road is short enough as is :P

Here's how I do it:

1) zoom into a cool looking part of the fractal

2) change the colors from one of a thousand custom made color maps (mine)

3) decide whether it will be an outward or an inward zoom

4) begin creating each fractal/frame one-by-one until I am done

5) use irfanview to batch process the filename changes so that multiple saves are now uniformally named and numbered

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