Mandelbrot fractal zoom: Blue Oyster Spiral

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This is the original blue oyster spiral fractal zoom that I posted a while back on video.google.com. Back in 1993, I made a poster based on a region in the Mandelbrot fractal that you can find near the beginning of this movie, but I always wanted to explore that area more deeply, and I had to wait years for computers to be fast enough to even skim the surface a little more. Even so, by the time that we get to the last frames in this video, a dual core 2.7ghz pc still took days per frame.

That's the problem with infinity. You can never see it all.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• fractal
• zoom
• deep
• exploration
• universe
• infinity
• galaxy
• psychedelic
• big pig
• breakaway
• blue
• Mandelbrot
• forever
• not
• fred
• or
• jonas
• brothers

[cajunCleary]

After years, this is still my favorite Mandelbrot fractal zoom...in my humble opinion, the BEST of them. The song is just the scrumptious icing on the ethereal cake. THANK YOU LAMAFRACTAL!

[iamafractal]

@cajunCleary you are welcome. and i remain, humbly, a fractal, although not a llama.

[FractAlkemist]

10^33 ? I got one to 10^89 and 10^105; in a couple months my 10^112 will be done. Try fractint - it's quicker than FX or UF; I have experimented with them all. You may also want to up the iteration count - much more detail will show, especially if you use a color pallette instead of all blue.

[iamafractal]

This was rendered 5 years ago, when that meant something. It landed in a very high iteration area, with millions of iterations per pixel by the final frames.

The blue palate was my most popular, selling over 2.5 million blue oyster spiral posters worldwide from 1993, when it was first rendered.

rainbow island twists has the kind of rainbow color palate you are probably talking about and by the final frame, which is zoomed at about 2^315 or 10e90 I think, the iterations per pixel hits over 1B

[Ngaroc]

We are meat fractals.  :o)

[AnandaSpiritCloud]

Most excellent! ;)

Thanks for sharing!

Peace

[cyyyggnus]

Awesomatastic!!

[sunaNezumiYasha]

This video is really well done. Usually the annotations are just annoying, but you've given some really interesting information. I never knew about the iterative features in the Mandelbrot set (where you mention it being like taking an integral).

[Nicknacmania]

O_o