Ultimate Metaphase XX - Very Deep Zoom!

I have taken the original Metaphase concept
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp_ohy3q5Js
and expanded it by selectively zooming into the features so as to create ever-increasingly longer rows of Xs. Finally, when I get to a really long row of 32 Xs, I zoom in on the center instead of the edge, which eventually leads to a really big cross (X) made up of 64 little crosses (Xs). The original video ended here at 8:42 (about 2^-782 zooms), but I later rendered the remainder of the video all the way to the mini-brot at the end. Because I had to increase the max iterations, it caused the color bands in the video to de-sync. Although I did adjust the color to best match the original, there is a noticable jump at that point. The minibrot is located at about 2^-897 Zooms, which is a very convienient location, since at 1.5 zooms per sec, this equates to 9:58, just under the 10 minute youtube limit ;-)

For a high-resolution image of the "cross of Crosses" in a very nice custom color palette, please visit my DeviantArt entry, "XX Reactor Core - Deep Zoom"
http://stardust4ever.deviantart.com/art/XX-Reactor-Core-Deep-Zoom-131573460

Audio from video game "World of Goo" (2D Boy)
http://2dboy.com/2009/01/20/world-of-goo-soundtrack-now-available-for-download/

Video Rendered in Fractal Extreme 64-bit
Quad-Core Phenom II 955 O.C. @ 3.6Ghz
ⓒ2009 Ay Jay Will-Yams aka StarDust
As always, comments are appreciated!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• mandelbrot
• fractal
• julia
• extreme

[DannyPapasFritas]

If the whole thing at the beginning was as big as the visible universe. Would the last figure at 9:59 be smaller than an electron?

[stardust4ever]

@DannyPapasFritas If our universe was an lectron instide a bigger universe which was an electron inside an even bigger universe, it wouldn't even begin to describe the magnitude of this fractal zoom.

[MetalicAtheist]

everything i look at is moving!! its starting to fade away now, but a moment ago, my keyboard started to warp in on itself...

whoah

[stardust4ever]

@MetalicAtheist: It's a harmless optical illusion. I had a spinning top with a spiral on it when I was a kid that created the same effect. If the pattern zooms in, objects within your visual cortex appear to shrink when you look away. If the pattern zooms out, objects appear to expand.

[SulfuricAcidChugger]

Sweet, 2:50 looked exactly like a cell w/ a set of chromosomes.. i'll keep watching, there's probably a ton more.

[stardust4ever]

@SulfuricAcidChugger Try 7:24, there is an entire row of 32 chromosomes that will blow you away! :D

[spyroandcynderrock75]

the pertect thing to watch when you're high!

[DavidFrazier100]

WOW THAT IS AWESOME !!!

[unambitious]

mind is blown...

[v8infinity8]

This is the way we generate universes

[nickringer]

The magnitude of this zoom is 2^897 or about 1.06E270.

The diameter of the observable Universe is about 9.30E10 light-years or 8.80E26

meters.

Subatomic particles like electrons don't have a well-defined diameter, and elementary particles don't always behave like matter we're used to.

The smallest (meaningful) distance I can come up with is the Planck Length, 1.62E-35m, or 5.43E61 times smaller than the universe; still utterly incomparable to the scale of the zoom of this set.

[cloecouturier]

FUN and Beautiful:)

cloe

[Pterodactyl13]

This was beautiful. I thought of both Peacock feathers and chromosomes. Stunning colors, I wish that a good chunk of these zooms were as brightly, or as well lit as this.

[spideylover890]

world of goo theme and AM I HIGH?!?!?!!?